WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2015 – Expanding on his ambitious plan to combat climate change, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Climate Protection and Justice Act today to establish a price on carbon pollution. The legislation would cut total emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, fund historic investments in energy[Read More…]

First-Ever “Unjust Transition” Award Goes to Renault-Nissan; Coalition of Environmental Groups Presents French Automaker With Award For Violation of U.S. Worker’s Rights PARIS, FRANCE — (ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2015.  As the COP21 climate negotiations head into their final days, a coalition of prominent international climate action voices — including the Sierra[Read More…]

Groundbreaking report calls for increased scrutiny and regulation, vindicates tar sands campaigners WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2015 – The National Academy of Sciences today released a study on diluted bitumen (or “dilbit”), a raw form of tar sands oil making its way across North America in increasing volumes, that supports[Read More…]

NRDC former president says toolkit can help “protect those who are most vulnerable” from climate impacts PARIS–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2015 — Cities plagued by dangerous heat waves and soaring temperatures will be able to better protect their most vulnerable citizens with a new climate resilience toolkit released today at the Paris[Read More…]

TOKYO, JAPAN –(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2015 —Today, Center for Food Safety and the Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union (SCCCU) of Japan, jointly opposed the commercialization of the genetically engineered (GE) salmon recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The novel fish is the first ever GE animal approved[Read More…]

Ballot measure to protect local water gains momentum. Hood River County, Ore. –(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2015.  Residents of this picturesque Columbia River Gorge county this week submitted three times as many signatures as they need to qualify for the ballot an initiative that would block corporate behemoth, Nestlé, from bottling and[Read More…]

Plan Would More Than Double the Clean Energy Workforce WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2015 – As part of his plan to create a sustainable, clean-energy economy, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation today that would significantly reduce carbon pollution and help put us on a path to more than double the size[Read More…]

PARIS, FRANCE –(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2015.   At the foot of a miniature Eiffel Tower, civil society, environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples rejected REDD, a carbon market mechanism, land-grabbing false solution to climate change that could potentially cause genocide, at the World Climate Summit today. According to Tom Goldtooth, Director of Indigenous[Read More…]

Podesta Criticizes Tuesday Senate Subcommittee Hearing Where Chairman Ted Cruz Will Use Taxpayer Dollars to Question Settled Climate Science NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—December 8, 2015. As world leaders are gathering for the final week of talks in Paris to forge a global agreement to tackle climate change, Hillary for America Chair John Podesta criticized[Read More…]