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Month: September 2012

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Energy

States Fail to Enforce Their Own Oil, Gas Rules

September 29, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Food

Peanut and Almond Butters Recalled for Salmonella

September 29, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

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Energy

Couple Gets 13 Years for Defrauding BP Oil Spill Trust Fund

September 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Energy

Groups Sue Canada Over Pipeline Danger to Species At Risk

September 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Energy

Tar Sands Blockaders Arrested, Police Accused of ‘Torture’

September 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Latest News

Invisible Plastic Soup is Harming Ocean Animals

September 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Latest News

Driverless Cars Allowed on California Roads

September 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Bill Clinton
Land Use/Forests

Clinton Global Initiative Inspires Generous Eco-Commitments

September 25, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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RSS

Fast Carbon Footprinting Developed at Columbia

September 24, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Latest News

Bolivian President Protects Amazon Pink River Dolphins

September 24, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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At Risk

UN Links Peace, Rule of Law, Sustainable Development

September 24, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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At Risk

23 Nuclear Power Plants at High Risk of Tsunami

September 24, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Obama Honors Chimney Rock’s Ancient Pueblos, Natural Beauty

September 21, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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At Risk

New Malaria-Carrying Mosquito Found in Kenya

September 21, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

The Crystal
Business

Urban Sustainability Sparkles at Siemens’ New Crystal

September 21, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

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Food

Tuna-Loving Kids at Risk of Mercury Poisoning

September 20, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Latest News

National Plug In Day Shows Fun Side of Electric Cars

September 20, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

Australia’s Unique Species Face ‘Unstoppable’ Climate Danger

September 19, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

Arctic Minimum Sea Ice Cover Shrinks to Record Low

September 19, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Food

Obesity Linked to Bisphenol A Urine Levels

September 18, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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