Month: June 2010

Clearing Haiti’s Streets of Rubbish Means Clearing Crime Too

By Gemma Pitcher

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, June 7, 2010 (ENS) – Spend two hours in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s ramshackle capital, and the [...]

BP Oil Cleanup Will Take Months – Restoration, Years

WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2010 (ENS) – BP is capturing some of the oil spewing from the damaged Deepwater Horizon [...]

Illinois Plastics Recycler Indicted in Fox River Fish Kill

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 4, 2010 (ENS) – Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced criminal charges today in connection with dumping [...]

Films, Photos, Reports, Websites Enrich World Environment Day

KIGALI, Rwanda, June 4, 2010 (ENS) – The United Nations is observing World Environment Day June 5 with warnings for the [...]

Containment Cap Holding Over Broken Oil Well, But Spill Widens

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 4, 2010 (ENS) – BP fitted a containment cap over the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead [...]

Oil Spill: BP Places Containment Cap Over Broken Wellhead

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 3, 2010 (ENS) – BP has tonight placed a containment cap over the damaged Deepwater Horizon [...]

Oil Spill: Louisiana Builds Sand Booms, Obama Bills BP $69 Million

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 3, 2010 (ENS) – President Barack Obama is planning a third trip to the [...]

Gulf Oil Spill Likely to Hit U.S. Atlantic Coast This Summer

BOULDER, Colorado, June 3, 2010 (ENS) – Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico is [...]

Aid Agencies in Quake-Ravaged Haiti Mobilize to Face Hurricanes

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, June 3, 2010 (ENS) – The humanitarian crisis triggered by January’s earthquake in Haiti could worsen with the [...]

EPA Requires Permit for Pesticide Application to U.S. Waters

WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2010 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new permit requirement that would [...]

Governor Lingle Establishes Hawaii’s First Surf Reserves

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 2, 2010 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle today issued an executive order to establish surfing reserves at two [...]

Wood-based Bioenergy a False Climate Change Solution: Report

BONN, Germany, June 2, 2010 (ENS) – To reduce the impact of climate change, burning wood for energy is not a [...]

Forest Protection Partnership Attracts $4 Billion Investment

OSLO, Norway, June 2, 2010 (ENS) – The effort to preserve and protect forests and particularly tropical rainforests took a step forward [...]

Climate Talks Resume Attempt to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

BONN, Germany, June 1, 2010 (ENS) -? A new round of UN climate change negotiations opened here Monday with representatives [...]

New York City Simplifies Environmental Review Process

NEW YORK, New York, June 1, 2010 (ENS) – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg today launched four measures to make New York [...]

NOAA Forecasts ‘Active to Extremely Active’ Atlantic Hurricane Season

CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland, June 1, 2010 (ENS) – An “active to extremely active” hurricane season is expected for the Atlantic [...]