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Month: October 2012

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Energy

European Commission Would Limit Food-based Biofuels

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

lion
Latest News

UN Strategizes to Fund Biodiversity Recovery in 100 Countries

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

logging road
Land Use/Forests

Brazilian President Vetoes Amnesty for Illegal Logging

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

Pablo Fajardo
Energy

Court Orders First Handover of Chevron’s Ecuador Assets

October 17, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Ford C-MAX Energi
Latest News

New Fuel-Sipping Ford Plug-in Hybrid Erases Range Anxiety

October 17, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Obama, Romney
Energy

Obama, Romney Lock Horns Over Energy, Environment

October 16, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Stein arrest
At Risk

Green Party Presidential Candidate Arrested Outside Debate Venue

October 16, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Prime Minister Singh
Latest News

India Pledges $50 Million for Biodiversity Conservation

October 16, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

No Picture
Waste

Cell Phones All Contain Toxics: Older Ones the Most

October 16, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

gorilla
At Risk

Primates Vanishing Under Relentless Human Pressure

October 14, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Siberian cranes
Latest News

Cost to Save All At-Risk Species + Habitats = $80 Billion a Year

October 12, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

dismantling cell phone
Latest News

Cell Phones All Contain Toxics: Older Ones the Most

October 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Afghanistan water pump
Air/Climate

Afghanistan to Strengthen Climate Change Defenses

October 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Wyoming wind farm site
Energy

Wyoming Site Approved for Largest U.S. Wind Farm

October 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

oil Ecuador
Energy

Top U.S. Court Rejects Chevron’s Appeal in Ecuador Pollution Case

October 9, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Darunta dam
Energy

Cash Flow Crisis as Afghan Dam Crumbles

October 8, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Mexican wolf pup
Latest News

Wolves Losing Ground State by Western State

October 8, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Kentucky stream
Latest News

Kentuckians Win Coal Giant Fake Reporting Water Pollution Case

October 8, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

charging stations
Business

France Invests 50 Million Euros in Electro-mobility

October 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

Fairchild, Hannah
Energy

Texas Grandma Jailed for Trespass on Her Own Land in Pipeline Protest

October 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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