Month: January 2012

FirstEnergy to Retire Six Older Coal-Fired Power Plants

AKRON, Ohio, January 27, 2012 (ENS) – FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary companies will retire six older coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, [...]

NASA Discovers Our Galaxy ‘Loaded’ With Exoplanets

MOFFETT FIELD, California, January 27, 2012 (ENS) – The Kepler spacecraft has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets, the [...]

Green Policies Drive Washington Auto Show in U.S. Capital

WASHINGTON, DC, January 27, 2012 (ENS) – The 70th Washington Auto Show: “Safety and Sustainability in Motion” opens to the [...]

Enviros, Tribes Sue to Protect Marine Mammals from U.S. Navy

SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 26, 2012 (ENS) – A coalition of conservation groups and American Indian tribes today sued [...]

Obama’s New Forest Planning Rule Fails to Satisfy Conservationists

WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2012 (ENS) – The Obama administration today proposed a new forest planning rule that will guide [...]

Afghan Olive Farms Waiting for Water

By Hejratullah Ekhtiyar

JALALABAD, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, January 26, 2012 (ENS) – The southeastern Afghan province of Nangarhar was once home to thousands of [...]

Biodiversity Loss Costs EU 450 Billion Euros a Year

BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 26, 2012 (ENS) – A silent crisis of biodiversity loss is costing the European Union 450 billion [...]

Judge Declares California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Unconstitutional

FRESNO, California, January 24, 2012 (ENS) – A federal judge has ruled that California Air Resources Board’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard [...]

Five Electric Snowmobiles Enter the Clean Snowmobile Challenge

HOUGHTON, Michigan, January 26, 2012 (ENS) – Running zero emissions snowmobiles, teams of engineering students from five universities are among the [...]

State of the Union: Obama Opens Public Land and Waters to Energy Industry

WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2012 (ENS) – President Barack Obama used his State of the Union [...]

Energy Race to 2035: Renewables, Efficiency, Domestic Oil and Gas Win

WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2012 (ENS) – Increased oil, natural gas and renewable energy production within the United [...]

POET and Royal DSM Partner to Produce Cellulosic Bio-ethanol

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, January 24, 2012 (ENS) – An American ethanol producer and a Dutch life and materials sciences [...]

‘Extinct’ Monkey Rediscovered in Borneo

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, January 24, 2012 (ENS) – Miller’s grizzled langur, a species of monkey that was believed to be extinct or on [...]

Sydney Welcomes Year of the Dragon With Komodo Dragon Conservation

SYDNEY, Australia, January 23, 2012 (ENS) – The City of Sydney and Taronga Zoo have launched the Year of [...]

Automotive CEOs Plan Eco-Friendly Products, Green Jobs

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 23, 2012 (ENS) – Eighty percent of automotive CEOs see developing environmentally-friendly products or services as an “important part” [...]

Italian Shipwreck Salvors Bring in Oil Spill Response Vessel, Double Booms

ROME, Italy, January 23, 2012 (ENS) – As the cruise ship Costa Concordia lies on its side on [...]