However, challenges remain in other key areas such as texting while driving Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012. U.S. high school students have shown significant progress over the past two decades in improving many health-risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death among youth—motor vehicle crashes—according to the 2011 National Youth[Read More…]
Science
Par for the Course: As Bees Die, Governments Sit Idly By
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012. THE INACTION MEANS WE NEED TO ACT TOGETHER I have to say I’m not one to inherently, blindly grant government too much power, but I do have to love the way the French are dealing with yet another study that says pesticides are killing bees. Within days[Read More…]
Men and Women Respond Differently to Exercise Advertisements
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012. A new University of Michigan study finds that overweight men and women responded differently to advertisements about the benefits from exercise. “Daily well-being” motivates women to exercise, while “weight loss” and “health” are more motivational for men. Researchers investigated whether reading a one-page advertisement featuring[Read More…]
New Jersey’s Christie Administration Sued for Illegally Leaving Regional Clean Energy Pact
Administration Put Dirty Energy Interests Ahead of New Jersey Residents and State’s Economic Health TRENTON, N.J.–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2012 – Governor Chris Christie and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection failed to follow legal due process and safeguard the economic and health interests of New Jersey citizens when pulling the[Read More…]
Poisoning the Great Lakes: 25 Coal-fired Power Plants Responsible for Half the Region’s Mercury Pollution
OH, PA and IN Are Home to Region’s Worst Mercury Polluters, Followed by MI, IL, WI, MN and NY; Vote in Congress to Test Support of Region’s U.S. Senators for EPA Curb on Neurotoxin. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012 –Just ahead of a major U.S. Senate vote on the Environmental Protection[Read More…]
Judge Dismisses Inyo County Lawsuit to Open Road in Remote Death Valley Wilderness
County failed to prove obscure, little-used route was a ‘public highway’ Fresno, CA –(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012. A federal judge yesterday threw out a suit by Inyo County, California to open a highway through a remote roadless area of Death Valley National Park. The Last Chance Mountains in Death Valley National[Read More…]
Conservation Organizations Challenge Weak Air Pollution Standards in North Dakota
Urge reinstatement of earlier, stronger protections Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012. Conservation organizations appealed the weak federal air pollution standards approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for coal-fired power plants in North Dakota. The groups urged the EPA to instead implement more protective air pollution safeguards it had suggested last[Read More…]
140 Community, Public Health and Environmental Groups Demand a Clean Transportation Bill
Unrelated riders on coal ash, NEPA, Keystone pipeline clog up jobs bill Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2012. The transportation conference committee, comprised of members from both the House of Representatives and Senate, is working to iron out a deal on a massive transportation bill designed to fund and maintain America’s highways,[Read More…]
Yet Again, Researchers Prove Bed Bugs Resistant to Common Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 7th, 2012. A new study confirms several other recent study findings on the inability of commonly used pyrethroid based pesticide products to control bed bug infestations. The results reinforce the voices of concerned citizens and environmental groups calling for a wider adoption of proven, non-toxic methods to manage[Read More…]
Hawaii’s Oversight of Pesticides Permits Scrutinized for Undue Industry Influence
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 7, 2012. As Hawaii officials finalize new rules for the regulation of pesticide discharge into waterways due to the federal court ruling requiring permits for pesticide discharges, critics say the state’s draft rules are not strict enough and that stakeholders, such as the farming lobby, may have had[Read More…]
