$5 Million Already Raised for Inspiring Journeys Campaign JACKSON, Wyo.–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2013.  Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott and Grand Teton National Park Foundation President Leslie Mattson to publicly launch the Inspiring Journeys Campaign – a $16 million dollar public-private[Read More…]

Groups Challenge Another Mine that Harms WV Streams Huntington, West Virginia–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2013.  Today, the Sierra Club, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition filed an action against a Fola Coal Company, LLC for significant pollution that has contaminated a headwater stream in West Virginia.  The lawsuit, filed[Read More…]

Image of Tropical Storm Dorian on July 24, 2013, from NOAA’s GOES East satellite. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2013.  NOAA issued its updated Atlantic hurricane season outlook today saying the season is shaping up to be above normal with the possibility that it could be very active.[Read More…]

Report on Climate Sensitivity of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. Full report. (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8 2013.  The nation’s 28 National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR) are experiencing the negative effects of human and climate-related stressors according to a new NOAA research report from the National Ocean Service.  The[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2013.  Over 100 goats have been tasked with controlling poison ivy, ground cover, vines and other invasive weeds at the Congressional Cemetery this week. The Association for the Preservation of The Historic Congressional Cemetery partnered with Eco-Goats to control the invasive species that threaten large mature trees,[Read More…]

Tough court settlement sets the bar for fracking wastewater in PA Harrisburg, PA–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern Pennsylvania might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated[Read More…]

Tours Oil and Gas Production Facilities, Theodore Roosevelt National Park;  As Part of President’s Climate Action Plan, Inspects Innovative Technologies to Capture Methane Emissions DICKINSON, N.D.–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  Underscoring the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy and comprehensive Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has detected the highly toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos in nearly 30% of air tests that are being conducted in three high risk communities surrounded by intensive agriculture. This result is part of DPR’s 2012 results from its  air-monitoring network (AMN) sampling near the[Read More…]

Lawsuit challenges federal loan guarantees for industrial swine facility in the Buffalo National River watershed Little Rock, AR–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2013.  A coalition of conservation and citizen groups filed suit today challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for their inadequate[Read More…]