NRDC: “Obama Administration Takes Important First Step” WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. The Obama administration today signaled its intention to develop first-ever rules to curb carbon dioxide pollution from new power plants, according to a notice posted on the website of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The following is[Read More…]
Science
NOAA: October Warmer Than Average in the United States
Early season storm breaks October snowfall records across the Northeast, while record drought continues across the Southern Plains Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011 October 2011 temperature “divisional rank” maps. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) During October, a persistent upper-level weather pattern brought below-normal temperatures to the southeastern United States and above-normal temperatures from[Read More…]
Sierra Club Statement on Dept. of Interior Announcement of New Plans for Risky Offshore Drilling
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017, opening up the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in Alaska to dangerous and dirty offshore oil and gas drilling. It schedules 15 potential lease sales for[Read More…]
Secretary Salazar Announces 2012-2017 Offshore Oil and Gas Development Program
Proposal makes available more than 75% of estimated undiscovered oil and gas resources on U.S. Outer Continental Shelf WASHINGTON DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017, which makes more than 75 percent of[Read More…]
Coalition Files Three Lawsuits to Demand National Coal Treat Pollution from Coal Mines
Company’s Own Records Show Violations Of Legal Limits of Iron, Selenium, Other Heavy Metals in Local Waterways Knoxville, TN–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. Earlier this week, the Sierra Club and its partners, the Tennessee Clean Water Network and Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment, filed three suits in the U.S. District Court for the[Read More…]
Secretary General Ban Welcomes Rock Band Linkin Park’s Support for Sustainable Energy Initiative
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–8 November 2011. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed members of the award-winning alternative rock band Linkin Park to United Nations Headquarters in New York, where they announced their commitment to support his initiative aimed at ensuring universal energy access by 2030. “I don’t know much about rock music. I stopped[Read More…]
Join Health and Environmental Advocates in Calling on EPA to Ban Atrazine
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a petition to ban the endocrine (hormone) disrupting herbicide atrazine on September 14, 2011, opening a 60-day comment period for the public to weigh-in on the issue that ends Friday. Tell EPA that because atrazine poses unacceptable risks to humans[Read More…]
Battered Tharsis Tholus Volcano on Mars
Battered volcano Tharsis Tholus EU–(ENEWSPF)–8 November 2011. The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 km above the surrounding terrain, with a base stretching over 155 x 125[Read More…]
FDA Launches Website on Safe Disposal of Used Needles and Other ‘Sharps’
Improperly disposed sharps pose public health risks Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched a new website for patients and caregivers on the safe disposal of needles and other so-called “sharps” that are used at home, at work and while traveling. The website will[Read More…]
NORML Attorneys File Multiple Constitutional Challenges to Federal Medical Marijuana Crackdow
San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011. NORML Attorneys Matt Kumin, David Michael, and Alan Silber, have filed suit (read here) in the four federal districts in California to challenge the Obama Administration’s recent crackdown on medical marijuana operations in the Golden State.Aided by expert testimony from NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano[Read More…]
