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Chevy Volt
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Indianapolis Mayor Orders City Fleet Weaned Off Petroleum

December 13, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Indianapolis Mayor Orders City Fleet Weaned Off Petroleum

 

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, December 13, 2012 (ENS) – Calling it a vital national security issue, Mayor Greg Ballard has signed an Executive Order  making Indianapolis the first U.S. city [...]

gas flare
Air/Climate

States Threaten EPA Over Petroleum Industry Methane Emissions

December 12, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on States Threaten EPA Over Petroleum Industry Methane Emissions

 

ALBANY, New York, December 12, 2012 (ENS) – Seven states Tuesday notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of their intent to sue the agency for violating the Clean [...]

DuPont cellulosic
Energy

DuPont Builds Giant Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery in Iowa

December 12, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on DuPont Builds Giant Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery in Iowa

NEVADA, Iowa, December 11, 2012 – Science and engineering company DuPont has started construction of a large cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa, with completion expected in mid-2014.

Once fully [...]

ivory, tusks, Malaysia
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Malaysian Customs Seizes 20 Tonnes of Smuggled Ivory

December 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Malaysian Customs Seizes 20 Tonnes of Smuggled Ivory

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, December 11, 2012 (ENS) – Royal Malaysian Customs today announced their largest ivory seizure ever, a find of 1,500 pieces of elephant tusks hidden in [...]

Michael Bishop
Energy

Texas Judge Halts Keystone XL Pipeline Construction

December 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Texas Judge Halts Keystone XL Pipeline Construction

 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, December 11, 2012 (ENS) – Texas landowner Michael Bishop, 64, an analytical chemist and former U.S. Marine, has been granted a temporary restraining order that halts [...]

Potosi, Bolivia
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Bolivia Invests $20 Million in Waste Management

December 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Bolivia Invests $20 Million in Waste Management

 

WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – Bolivia will improve municipal solid waste management services such as collection, transportation, and disposal, with a $20 million loan from the [...]

recyclers, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Latest News

Viewpoint: The Brazilian Digital Prophecy of 2016

December 10, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Viewpoint: The Brazilian Digital Prophecy of 2016

 

By Alfonso Stefanini, Environmental Consultant

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – As we approach the date for the Mayan doomsday prophecy on December 21, 2012, [...]

Obama, Sandy, survivor
At Risk

Obama Seeks $60 Billion for Superstorm Sandy Recovery

December 10, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Obama Seeks $60 Billion for Superstorm Sandy Recovery

 

WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – President Barack Obama has asked Congress to appropriate $60 billion to help in the rebuilding of the states and cities from [...]

Doha officials
Air/Climate

Doha Outcome: Kyoto Protocol Lives, Global Climate Deal by 2015

December 8, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Doha Outcome: Kyoto Protocol Lives, Global Climate Deal by 2015

 

DOHA, Qatar, December 8, 2012 (ENS) – At the UN’s annual climate change conference just concluded in Doha, 194 countries agreed to an extension of the Kyoto Protocol [...]

beef
Food

Brazil’s First Case of Mad Cow Disease Hidden for Months

December 7, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Brazil’s First Case of Mad Cow Disease Hidden for Months

 

BILLINGS, Montana, December 7, 2012 (ENS) – Brazil has notified international animal health regulators of its first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, commonly called mad cow disease. [...]

earthquake map
At Risk

Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake Shakes Northeast Japan

December 7, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake Shakes Northeast Japan

 

TOKYO, Japan, December 7, 2012 (ENS) – Northeastern Japan was jolted by a powerful earthquake at 5:18 pm Friday, local time. The quake produced small tsunami waves along the [...]

mud Mindanao
At Risk

Deadly Typhoon Bopha Leaves 200,000 Homeless

December 6, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Deadly Typhoon Bopha Leaves 200,000 Homeless

 

MANILA, Philippines, December 6, 2012 (ENS) – A ferocious typhoon with intense rain has claimed 325 lives in the Philippines and injured more than 400 other people. Hundreds [...]

Paul Watson
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Watson Takes Command of Sea Shepherd Whale Defense Fleet

December 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Watson Takes Command of Sea Shepherd Whale Defense Fleet

 

FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – Captain Paul Watson, founder and president of the marine wildlife conservation organization, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has resurfaced at the [...]

pyrotechnics
Land Use/Forests

Explosives Superfund Site Cleanup Settled for $50 Million

December 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Explosives Superfund Site Cleanup Settled for $50 Million

 

WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – A Superfund site contaminated by decades of fireworks manufacturing will be cleaned under two settlements reached today by the U.S. government [...]

Bakun dam Sarawak Malaysia
Land Use/Forests

Hydro Tasmania to Withdraw From Sarawak Dam-Building Program

December 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Hydro Tasmania to Withdraw From Sarawak Dam-Building Program

 

LAUNCESTON, Tasmania, Australia, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – Hydro Tasmania will pull its personnel out of the Malaysian state of Sarawak by the end of 2013, the company’s [...]

Emmanuel, Quinn, Chu, Crabtree
Energy

Obama Invests $120 Million in Battery Research Hub

December 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Obama Invests $120 Million in Battery Research Hub

 

CHICAGO, Illinois, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – A team led by Argonne National Laboratory will receive up to $120 million to establish a research Hub for advanced batteries [...]

Professor Ali Harlin
Latest News

Plastic Packaging Industry Shifting to Bio-based Products

December 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Plastic Packaging Industry Shifting to Bio-based Products

 

ESPOO, Finland, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – A new technology developed in Finland is enabling the plastic packaging industry to shift toward bio-based products, away from dependence on [...]

Doha food security
Air/Climate

Doha Climate Talks in a ‘Race Against Time’

December 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Doha Climate Talks in a ‘Race Against Time’

 

DOHA, Qatar, December 4, 2012 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today issued an urgent warning to government leaders as the annual United Nations climate negotiations kicked into [...]

Stan Olmstead
Latest News

Viewpoint: Let Us Stop Breaking the Land

December 3, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Viewpoint: Let Us Stop Breaking the Land

 

By Stan Olmstead, Natural Resource Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, retired

VERNAL, Utah, December 3, 2012 (ENS) – Never looking through rose colored glasses it is obvious [...]

Ford Fusion
Latest News

Ford Fusion, 2013 Green Car of the Year, Recalled for Engine Fires

December 3, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Ford Fusion, 2013 Green Car of the Year, Recalled for Engine Fires

 

LOS ANGELES, California, December 3, 2012 (ENS) – Ford has been forced to recall 2013 Fusions equipped with its gas-sipping 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine because they can overheat and [...]

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