BRASILIA, Brazil, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – A Brazilian Federal Court ruled today that environmental permits for more than 120 proposed hydropower plants in the Upper Paraguay River Basin cannot be issued without first doing environmental impact assessments. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition with the U.S. EPA Wednesday that asks the agency to set plastic pollution limits for ocean waters under the Clean Water Act. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney today released an energy plan for the nation that supports development of oil, gas and nuclear power but undercuts wind and solar energy. […]
ATLANTA, Georgia, August 22, 2012 (ENS) – A mosquito bite can kill, and this year 41 Americans have found that out the hard way as they lost their lives to the mosquito-borne disease West Nile virus. […]
TAMPA, Florida, August 22, 2012 (ENS) – The 2012 Republican National Convention, scheduled to open at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Monday, could be cancelled if Tropical Storm Isaac strengthens into a hurricane. […]
SACRAMENTO, California, August 22, 2012 (ENS) – Wildfires that have destroyed homes, forced evacuations and caused road closures prompted California Governor Jerry Brown to issue an emergency proclamation today for three northern California counties at their request. […]
SEOUL, South Korea, August 22, 2012 (ENS) – Electric car charging time could be cut from hours to just minutes by battery technology being developed in Ulsan, South Korea. […]
RICHLAND, Washington, August 20, 2012 (ENS) – For the first time, a leak of highly radioactive waste has been detected from a double-shelled tank at the Hanford Nuclear Site in central Washington state. […]
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, August 17, 2012 (ENS) – High levels of background noise, mainly from ships, have reduced the ability of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in a marine sanctuary to communicate with each other by about two-thirds. […]
BRASILIA, Brazil, August 16, 2012 (ENS) – A halt to construction of the controversial Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam on the Amazon’s Xingu River has been ordered by a federal court in the Brazilian capital. […]
GOLDEN, Colorado, August 16, 2012 (ENS) – The world’s largest hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle and hydrogen fueling demonstration indicates that automakers could bring FCEVs to market in the 2014-2016 timeframe. […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 15, 2012 (ENS) – The Chinese government should establish a “green taxation system” to attain its target of reducing pollution and promoting sustainable economic growth, the Asian Development Bank said today in a new report. […]
HAVERHILL, Iowa, August 15, 2012 (ENS) – President Barack Obama used his Tuesday campaign visit to an Iowa farm that hosts wind turbines to slam his opponent, Mitt Romney, for his failure to support the wind energy production tax credit. […]
PARIS, France, August 15, 2012 (ENS) – The Hollande Government has proposed an auto industry revival package that focuses on producing environmentally-friendly vehicles. […]
STATELINE, Nevada, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – Clarity in Lake Tahoe has stabilized after the years of cloudiness that threatened the lake’s attractiveness to millions of visitors from around the world, politicians and business people heard Monday at the annual Lake Tahoe Summit, but new threats abound. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – Genetic testing of shark fin soup from cities across the United States found DNA from eight endangered and threatened shark species, in the first nationwide scientific analysis of shark fin soup. […]
HONG KONG, China, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying says he supports the investigation into who is responsible for the plastic pellet spill, in which around 150 tonnes of plastic were dumped into the sea. […]
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – The Ontario government is investing C$80 million to jump-start the widespread availability of electric car charging stations to make EVs more attractive to potential buyers. […]
YEOSU, South Korea, August 13, 2012 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday introduced the Oceans Compact, a new initiative to support and strengthen implementation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. […]
GALVESTON, Texas, August 13, 2012 (ENS) – Thousands of dead fish that washed ashore on Galveston Island over the weekend were killed by a toxic algal bloom, state officials […]
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