Energy
States Fail to Enforce Their Own Oil, Gas Rules
WASHINGTON, DC, September 29, 2012 (ENS) – Janet McIntyre suffers from the blood cancer leukemia, and she has experienced seizures and renal failure since gas wells were drilled [...]
Month: September 2012
Food
Peanut and Almond Butters Recalled for Salmonella
PORTALES, New Mexico, September 28, 2012 (ENS) – Due to salmonella contamination, Sunland, Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of 76 types of peanut butter and almond butter, [...]
Energy
Couple Gets 13 Years for Defrauding BP Oil Spill Trust Fund
MIAMI, Florida, September 26, 2012 (ENS) – A south Florida couple were sentenced today in Miami federal court for perpetrating a series of disaster-related fraud schemes, including the [...]
Energy
Groups Sue Canada Over Pipeline Danger to Species At Risk
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, September 26, 2012 (ENS) –Environmental groups are suing Canada, claiming failure to implement the Species at Risk Act endangers wildlife along the Northern [...]
Energy
Tar Sands Blockaders Arrested, Police Accused of ‘Torture’
WINNSBORO, Texas, September 26, 2012 (ENS) – Two anti-tar sands pipeline activists were arrested in east Texas on Tuesday as demonstrators continue a three-day-old tree-sit to block TransCanada’s [...]
Latest News
Invisible Plastic Soup is Harming Ocean Animals
WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands, September 26, 2012 (ENS) – Plastic nanoparticles released when plastic debris decomposes in seawater can have an adverse effect on sea animals, Dutch scientists have [...]
Latest News
Driverless Cars Allowed on California Roads
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, September 25, 2012 (ENS) – California Governor Jerry Brown today took a test ride in a self-driving car before signing into law new safety standards [...]
Land Use/Forests
Clinton Global Initiative Inspires Generous Eco-Commitments
NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2012 (ENS) – Designing Our Environments, a theme of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, has brought millions of dollars in investment in [...]
RSS
Fast Carbon Footprinting Developed at Columbia
NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – Taking a page from Facebook engineers, researchers at Columbia University have developed new software that can calculate the carbon footprints [...]
Latest News
Bolivian President Protects Amazon Pink River Dolphins
LA PAZ, Bolivia, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – President Evo Morales has signed into law a measure to safeguard Bolivia’s Amazon pink river dolphin and assigned the country’s [...]
At Risk
UN Links Peace, Rule of Law, Sustainable Development
NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – The UN General Assembly’s first-ever High-level Meeting on the rule of law today stressed the “essential link” between the [...]
At Risk
23 Nuclear Power Plants at High Risk of Tsunami
HUELVA, Spain, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – Twenty-three nuclear power plants with 74 reactors are located in areas of the world that are at high risk of large tsunamis, [...]
Land Use/Forests
Obama Honors Chimney Rock’s Ancient Pueblos, Natural Beauty
WASHINGTON, DC, September 21, 2012 (ENS) – Today, on the fall equinox, the moonrise is aligned with the two pinnacles at Chimney Rock in southwestern Colorado, one of [...]
At Risk
New Malaria-Carrying Mosquito Found in Kenya
LONDON, UK, September 21, 2012 (ENS) – A “dangerous” new malaria-transmitting mosquito has been discovered in Kenya by British, Kenyan and U.S. scientists. As yet unnamed, the newly-found [...]
Business
Urban Sustainability Sparkles at Siemens’ New Crystal
LONDON, UK, September 20, 2012 (ENS) – The world’s largest exhibit spotlighting sustainable urban development is at the core of London’s shiny new technology and innovation center, the Crystal, [...]
Food
Tuna-Loving Kids at Risk of Mercury Poisoning
MONTPELIER, Vermont, September 20, 2012 (ENS) – Children who love to eat tuna fish may be at greater risk of mercury poisoning than anyone has realized, finds the [...]
Latest News
National Plug In Day Shows Fun Side of Electric Cars
BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 19, 2012 (ENS) – Electric vehicles will star Sunday, September 23 for National Plug In Day, America’s largest grassroots EV event.
Nonprofit groups Plug In [...]
Air/Climate
Australia’s Unique Species Face ‘Unstoppable’ Climate Danger
SYDNEY, Australia, September 19, 2012 (ENS) – The impact of climate change on Australia’s unique plants, animals and ecosystems will cause extinctions and lost ecosystem services and require new [...]
Air/Climate
Arctic Minimum Sea Ice Cover Shrinks to Record Low
BOULDER, Colorado, September 19, 2012 (ENS) – Arctic sea ice cover is now at the lowest summer minimum extent since satellite records began in 1979, say scientists at [...]
Food
Obesity Linked to Bisphenol A Urine Levels
NEW YORK, New York, September 18, 2012 (ENS) – Obese children and teens have higher levels of the chemical bisphenol A in their urine, researchers at New York [...]