Energy
European Commission Would Limit Food-based Biofuels
BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 19, 2012 (ENS) – The European Commission is proposing to limit land conversion for food crops used instead to produce biofuels such as ethanol and [...]
Month: October 2012
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UN Strategizes to Fund Biodiversity Recovery in 100 Countries
HYDERABAD, India, October 18, 2012 (ENS) – Delegates from 170 governments meeting in Hyderabad today adopted a new environmental strategy to address the unprecedented levels of biodiversity loss [...]
Land Use/Forests
Brazilian President Vetoes Amnesty for Illegal Logging
BRASILIA, Brazil, October 18, 2012 (ENS) – President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed nine items of the Forestry Code approved by Congress in September. One of the vetoes cancels [...]
Energy
Court Orders First Handover of Chevron’s Ecuador Assets
QUITO, Ecuador, October 17, 2012 (ENS) – An Ecuadorian court has frozen are all bank accounts owned by Chevron, Texaco, and their subsidiaries in partial payment of a [...]
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New Fuel-Sipping Ford Plug-in Hybrid Erases Range Anxiety
DEARBORN, Michigan, October 17, 2012 (ENS) – The range anxiety that has troubled hybrid car buyers in the past is fast-fading into the rear view mirror.
Ford is [...]
Energy
Obama, Romney Lock Horns Over Energy, Environment
HEMPSTEAD, New York, October 16, 2012 (ENS) – Issues of energy and the environment dominated the first section of tonight’s town hall debate between President Barack Obama and [...]
At Risk
Green Party Presidential Candidate Arrested Outside Debate Venue
HEMPSTEAD, New York, October 16, 2012 (ENS) – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala were just now forcibly prevented from entering the [...]
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India Pledges $50 Million for Biodiversity Conservation
HYDERABAD, India, October 16, 2012 (ENS) – India will invest US$50 million over the next two years to strengthen conservation of biological diversity, the variety of life on [...]
Waste
Cell Phones All Contain Toxics: Older Ones the Most
By Sunny Lewis
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 11, 2012 (ENS) – All 36 cell phones torn apart in a new study to identify which phones are the most toxic, [...]
At Risk
Primates Vanishing Under Relentless Human Pressure
HYDERABAD, India, October 15, 2012 (ENS) – More than half the world’s species of apes, monkeys and lemurs – humanity’s closest living relatives – are on the brink [...]
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Cost to Save All At-Risk Species + Habitats = $80 Billion a Year
HYDERABAD, India, October 12, 2012 (ENS) – Investing US$80 billion a year would cut the risk of extinction for all threatened species and protect the most important global conservation [...]
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Cell Phones All Contain Toxics: Older Ones the Most
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 11, 2012 (ENS) – In a new study identifying which cell phones are the worst for toxic chemicals, researchers found that 100 percent of [...]
Air/Climate
Afghanistan to Strengthen Climate Change Defenses
BAMYAN, Afghanistan, October 11, 2012 (ENS) – To strengthen Afghanistan’s ability to withstand climate change, the government and United Nations partners today announced a US$6 million initiative, the [...]
Energy
Wyoming Site Approved for Largest U.S. Wind Farm
WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2012 (ENS) – Clearing the way for the largest wind farm in the United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday approved the Chokecherry and [...]
Energy
Top U.S. Court Rejects Chevron’s Appeal in Ecuador Pollution Case
WASHINGTON, DC, October 9, 2012 (ENS) – Chevron today lost its U.S. Supreme Court bid to block global enforcement of a $19 billion judgment by an Ecuadorean court [...]
Energy
Cash Flow Crisis as Afghan Dam Crumbles
By Muhibullah Allahyar
KABUL, Afghanistan, October 8, 2012 (ENS) – The Darunta Dam in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province is showing worrying signs of wear and tear, which officials [...]
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Wolves Losing Ground State by Western State
WASHINGTON, DC, October 8, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a petition by conservation groups to list the endangered Mexican gray wolf separately [...]
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Kentuckians Win Coal Giant Fake Reporting Water Pollution Case
FRANKFORT, Kentucky, October 8, 2012 (ENS) – Environmentalists’ discovery of thousands of false pollution reports at dozens of coal mines in eastern Kentucky has prompted a Kentucky court [...]
Business
France Invests 50 Million Euros in Electro-mobility
PARIS, France, October 8, 2012 (ENS) – A new 50 million euro investment program to support electric vehicles and charging infrastructure was launched Wednesday by French transport, environment, [...]
Energy
Texas Grandma Jailed for Trespass on Her Own Land in Pipeline Protest
WINNSBORO, Texas, October 5, 2012 (ENS) – Eleanor Fairchild, 78, was arrested Thursday for trespassing on her own ranch as she tried to halt construction of TransCanada’s Keystone [...]