Administration officials also release final rule governing student health plans Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. Officials at the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury today took the next step in the Obama administration’s effort to ensure women access to recommended preventive services while respecting religious liberty. [Read More…]
Science
Proposed Kemper Coal Plant Permit Remanded
Mississippi Supreme Court Sides with Sierra Club in Decision Issued Yesterday Jackson, MS–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. The Mississippi Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling yesterday that deals a major blow to the dirty, expensive, and unnecessary proposed Kemper coal plant project. Mississippi Power, the major owner and developer of the proposed[Read More…]
The Augusta Syndrome: 45 Years Later, Is Golf the Environment’s Worst Nightmare?
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. This GoogleMaps image depicts how the Augusta National Country Club really appears when the cameras are not on. Few industries around the world can point to a single weekend as the date of their origin. Sure, lawn care has been around ever since kings ordered peasants to[Read More…]
Bureau of Land Management to Approve Disastrous Development Project in Desolation Canyon Proposed Wilderness
Bureau Rejects Nationwide Call to Protect Jobs and the Environment WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012 — The Obama administration’s decision today authorizing nearly 1,300 new natural gas wells in Utah’s Desolation Canyon wilderness and other remote areas will degrade the pristine region’s air quality and hurt the state’s tourism industry, according to[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth Demands Public Disclosure of Information Regarding Safety Problems at Troubled San Onofre Reactors
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. Nuclear watchdog Friends of the Earth is filing a public records request today with the California Public Utilities Commission calling for the urgent release of information regarding the serious safety problems at the troubled San Onofre nuclear reactors. Seriously damaged tubes in the steam generators[Read More…]
NIH Brain Imaging Study Finds Evidence of Basis for Caregiving Impulse
Infants’ faces evoke species-specific patterns of brain activity in adults Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. Distinct patterns of activity — which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants — appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face — even when the child is not[Read More…]
Report Confirms Low-Dose Health Effects of Endocrine Disruptors
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012. A report published online this week in the journal Endocrine Reviews documents extensive scientific research showing that endocrine disrupting chemicals, or endocrine disruptors, can be toxic to humans even in minutely small doses. The report, three years in the making, was published Wednesday by a team[Read More…]
Scholars Call for Global Governance Overhaul to Ensure Earth’s Sustainability
TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2012. A group of the world’s leading environmental scholars are sounding the alarm that human societies need to transform their national and international environmental institutions into a more coherent and robust planetary stewardship model in order to steer away from rapid and irreversible changes to the Earth’s[Read More…]
NOAA Authorizes States to Remove Sea Lions That Threaten Protected Salmon
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2012 California sea lions consuming salmon just below the Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam. Download here (Credit: With permission from the U.S. Corps of Engineers) NOAA’s Fisheries Service said today it was authorizing Idaho, Oregon and Washington to permanently remove the specific California sea lions eating the imperiled salmon[Read More…]
Risk of Major Flooding in Spring is Low for the First Time in Four Years
Drought lingers in southern Plains and Southeast, expands in West and upper Midwest Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2012 U.S. Spring Flood Risk Map for 2012. Read the full National Hydrologic Assessment. Download here (Credit: NOAA) For the first time in four years, no area of the country faces a high risk of[Read More…]
