Public interest groups call on Obama to heed credible independent experts’ analyses and reject dangerous tar sands oil pipeline WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—September 22, 2011. Email correspondence between State Department employees and a TransCanada pipeline lobbyist who served as a top aide on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign provides evidence[Read More…]
Science
Modest Improvements Can Extend Life of Alaska Pipeline by Decades
NRDC Study Debunks Industry’s Claims of a Possible Shutdown WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 21, 2011. The useful life of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) can be extended by at least three decades through modest improvements that also will yield profits at least ten times the upgrade costs, according to a new study[Read More…]
Lives are at Stake in House GOP’s Campaign to Strip Basic Environmental Protections
NRDC: Stop All-Out Assault on Our Health and Environment WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Sept. 21, 2011. The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved two bills designed to thwart health protections for all Americans. Both measures are part of Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Tea Party agenda to bring anti-environmental bills to the House floor this[Read More…]
Ship Owners and Operators to Pay $44 Million in Damages and Penalties for 2007 San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge Crash and Oil Spill
SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011. Federal, state and Bay-area officials announced a comprehensive civil settlement with the owners and operators of the M/V Cosco Busan, resolving all natural resource damages, penalties and response costs that resulted from the ship striking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, and subsequent oil spill[Read More…]
NOAA Researchers Release Study on Emissions From BP/Deepwater Horizon Controlled Burns
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011. Black smoke billows from a controlled burn of surface oil during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A new study by NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) found that controlled burns released more than one million pounds of sooty black carbon[Read More…]
Joplin Tornado Offers Important Lessons for Disaster Preparedness
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011. Image showing damage from the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011. Download here. (Credit: NOAA) Today, NOAA’s National Weather Service released its final assessment report on the May 22 tornado that struck Joplin, Mo. The report identifies best practices and makes recommendations to[Read More…]
First West Nile Virus Related Death Reported in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting the first West Nile virus related death in Illinois for 2011. A Cook County man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, was diagnosed with West Nile virus in August and died earlier this month. “Although[Read More…]
NIH Study Finds Hospitalizations Increase for Alcohol and Drug Overdoses
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011. Hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses — alone or in combination — increased dramatically among 18- to 24-year-olds between 1999 and 2008, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Led[Read More…]
Army-Funded Study Links Gulf War Illness to Pesticides and More
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011. A study supported by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command links pesticide exposure and other factors to Gulf War illness (also referred to as Gulf War Syndrome), an illness characterized by a wide range of acute and chronic symptoms experienced by veterans and civilians[Read More…]
Update: Illinoisan Infected in Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Rocky Ford Cantaloupes , Sept. 20, 2011
35 Persons Affected in 10 States SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—(ENEWSPF)—September 20, 2011. A total of 35 people in 10 states have been infected in the multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to Rocky Ford Cantaloupes shipped by Jensen Farms in Colorado, including a suburban Cook County woman, the Illinois Department of Public Health[Read More…]
