Victory: Following a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals rejects bid by coal mining industry to throw out the first-ever national limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution spewed by power plants The Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. It is among the hundreds[Read More…]
Environmental
Montreal, Canada Proposes ‘Complete Ban on Neonics’
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2015. Last week Montreal, the largest city in Canada’s Quebec province, announced plans for an all-out ban on the use of bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticides. The new regulations represent the strongest move against this neurotoxic class of insecticides by any government entity to date. Environmental and health advocates[Read More…]
Protest Filed Challenging Fracking Leases on 4,900 Acres in Southwestern Colorado
In the Face of Climate Crisis, BLM Urged to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground DENVER—(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2015. The Center for Biological Diversity on Monday filed a formal administrative protest challenging a Bureau of Land Management decision to auction 4,900 acres of public land in southwestern Colorado for fracking.[Read More…]
Representative Jan Schakowsky Statement on Historic Paris Climate Deal
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2015. Today, negotiators in Paris reached a major climate agreement. Rep. Schakowsky issued the following statement in response: “I thank and commend President Obama, Secretary Moniz, Secretary Kerry, their staffs, and our global partners who achieved this monumental agreement. I believe it will go down as one[Read More…]
California Atrazine Proposal Ignores Science on Dangers to People, Wildlife
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2015. Scientists, including leading atrazine researcher Dr. Tyrone Hayes, called on California officials today to adopt a more stringent labeling requirement that would make it harder for products containing unsafe levels of atrazine — a harmful pesticide banned in Europe — to escape having to be labeled[Read More…]
Hillary Clinton Statement on the Paris Climate Change Agreement
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2015. Hillary Clinton released the below statement following the conclusion of an international climate agreement at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The agreement solidifies greenhouse gas pollution reduction targets from more than 180 countries accounting for more than[Read More…]
COP21: UN Chief Hails New Climate Change Agreement as ‘Monumental Triumph’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right), French Foreign Minister and COP21 President, Laurent Fabius (centre), and French President Franois Hollande (left) at the UN climate change conference in Paris. 12 December 2015. Photo Credit: UNFCCC PARIS–(ENEWSPF)–12 December 2015 – Following the adoption of the new Paris Agreement on climate change, United[Read More…]
Engineering Officers Charged in Scheme to Cover Up Oil Discharges from Cargo Vessel
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2015. A federal grand jury in Greenville, North Carolina, has returned a nine-count indictment charging two engineering officers employed by Oceanfleet Shipping Limited with crimes relating to the illegal discharge of oily wastes directly into the sea, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Department[Read More…]
COP21: Encouraged by Climate Talks, UN Secretary General Ban Urges Negotiators to ‘Make Final Decisions for Humanity’
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, President of the UN climate change conference (COP21), brief the press in Paris. UN Photo/Mark Garten PARIS–(ENEWSPF)–11 December 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that he is encouraged by progress of the talks at the UN climate[Read More…]
Increased Risk of Parkinson’s Disease Linked to Consumption of Heptachlor Contaminated Milk
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2015. Milk contaminated with the long-banned and toxic organochlorine pesticide heptachlor in Hawaii has been found in the brains of men that were more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study. This study adds to a large body of evidence linking pesticide exposure to Parkinson’s[Read More…]
