Atlanta, GA-(ENEWSPF)- An Obama administration proposal to continue allowing oil companies to dump unlimited amounts of offshore fracking chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico violates federal law and threatens endangered marine wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity warned over the weekend. In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency on a[Read More…]
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Arizona’s Sonoyta Mud Turtle Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection After Waiting for 19 Years
Tucson, AZ-(ENEWSPF)- In accordance with a settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity to speed protections for 757 species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Sonoyta mud turtle, which was first identified as a “candidate” for federal protection in 1997. These highly aquatic turtles are found[Read More…]
Mississippi Fish Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection After 25 Years On Waiting List
Jackson, Miss.-(ENEWSPF)- In response to a settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity to speed protections for 757 species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect the Pearl darter as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The small fish has been wiped out of its namesake[Read More…]
Analysis: Company Behind Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline Has Record of Spills, Property Damage
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Energy Transfer Partners, the conglomerate behind the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, is responsible for 29 pipeline safety incidents since 2006, in which 9,555 barrels of hazardous liquids were leaked, according to a new analysis of federal data by the Center for Biological Diversity. Those spills resulted in[Read More…]
DoD Identifies Army Casualty: Warrant Officer Travis R. Tamayo, 32
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Department of Defense (DoD) announced on September 18 the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. Warrant Officer Travis R. Tamayo, 32, of Brownsville, Texas, died Sept. 16 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in a non-combat-related incident. The incident is under investigation. Tamayo was[Read More…]
Car Slams Into House On Monee Road
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A vehicle slammed into a house on Monee Road on Wednesday, August 31. Firefighter/paramedics found “a male patient in distress,” according to a statement on the Park Forest Fire Department‘s Facebook page. The fire department responded to the home in the 100 block of Monee Road after[Read More…]
Fire On Homan Avenue “Quickly Extinguished”
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Members of the Park Forest Fire Department battled a structure fire in the 500 block of Homan Avenue beginning just before midnight on Tuesday, August 30. According to a statement on the PFFD’s Facebook page, on that date, “just before midnight, the Park Forest Fire Department was[Read More…]
Park Forest Observes National Hispanic Heritage Month
Park Forest-(ENEWSPF)- During a particularly caustic, xenophobic political season, it was particularly gratifying to watch as Park Forest, by resolution, observed National Hispanic Heritage Month. According to the agenda memo on this proclamation from Village Manager Tom Mick, “the 2010 US Census results showed the Hispanic heritage population to be[Read More…]
Park Forest Honors Stephen Lloyd for 35 Years Service on Police and Fire Commission
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Retiring after 35 years service on the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, the Village Board passed a resolution Monday honoring Stephen Lloyd. Mayor John Ostenburg remarked that Mr. Lloyd had been on the commission so long, that each and every officer and fire official currently employed in[Read More…]
HRC and ENC Release Statements on HB2
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Keeping up pressure on North Carolina since passage of the infamous HB2, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, and Equality NC (ENC), the statewide organization working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBTQ North Carolinians, rejected calls for[Read More…]
