Get involved in highlighting the amazing places and landscapes on our home planet this Earth Day, April 22, by posting photos and videos of your favorite place on Earth. Image Credit: NASA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. This Earth Day, April 22, NASA is asking people around the world to share[Read More…]
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Center for Food Safety Condemns Monsanto’s Monarch Recovery Pledge as Greenwashing
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. Center for Food Safety today sharply criticized Monsanto’s announcement that it is giving $4 million toward monarch population restoration. Two decades of the company’s top-selling crop system – Roundup Ready corn and soybeans – has nearly eradicated milkweed, the monarch caterpillar’s sole source of food, in[Read More…]
Online Shoppers Beware – Human Milk Purchased on Internet Can be Contaminated
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 6, 2015. In today’s digital world, shoppers can buy anything online, including human breast milk. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends against providing infants human milk from unscreened donors, some mothers unable to feed their child breastmilk are turning to the uncertainties of such[Read More…]
Conservationists Challenge Grizzly Killing in Grand Teton National Park
Federally approved ‘take’ of grizzly bears threatens recovery Grizzly bear and cub in Yellowstone National Park. Jim Peaco / National Park Service Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. Conservation groups have filed a legal challenge against two federal agencies for approving the killing of four grizzly bears, a threatened species, within[Read More…]
Forest Service Moves to Permit Bulldozing for Dirty Coal in Colorado Roadless Forest
Proposed loophole could cause half a billion tons of carbon pollution while undermining Obama administration climate goals A breathtaking view of a beaver pond in the Sunset Roadless area. Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice Denver, CO —(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. National and local conservation groups called on the U.S. Forest Service today[Read More…]
Portland, OR to Protect Pollinators, Bans Use of Bee-Toxic Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. Last week, the city council of Portland, Oregon voted unanimously to ban the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on city-owned property because these pesticides are persistent in the environment, harmful to pollinators, and have been involved in acute bee kills in other areas of the state. Neonicotinoids[Read More…]
Two Crayfishes Threatened by Mountaintop-removal Mining in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
Big Sandy crayfish photo by Guenter Schuster. CHARLESTON, W.Va.—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect two species of crayfish from Appalachia under the Endangered Species Act. The crayfishes have been lost[Read More…]
Feds to Consider Lifting Protection for Canadian Population of Endangered Sturgeon
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015. The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it will review the status of the St. John River population of shortnose sturgeon in New Brunswick, Canada, in response to a petition to end U.S. Endangered Species Act protection for this population of fish. The entire species of[Read More…]
Former Troy, MI Man Found Guilty of Structuring Financial Transactions
Detroit, MI –(ENEWSPF)—April 6, 2015. On March 26, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, a federal jury convicted Irvin Flemming, formerly of Troy, Michigan, of structuring financial transactions, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Jarod J. Koopman, Special[Read More…]
Fenton, MI Man Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns
Detroit, MI –(ENEWSPF)—April 6, 2015. A Fenton, Michigan man pleaded guilty to one count of filing false tax returns, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. United States Attorney McQuade was joined in the announcement by Jarod J. Koopman, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal[Read More…]
