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Month: April 2013

air pollution
Air/Climate

Air Pollution Linked to Hardening of the Arteries

April 30, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Air Pollution Linked to Hardening of the Arteries

 

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 30, 2013 (ENS) – Long term exposure to air pollution is linked to heart attacks and strokes because it speeds up hardening of the [...]

sewage overflow
Air/Climate

Superstorm Sandy Dumped 11 Billion Gallons of Sewage

April 30, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Superstorm Sandy Dumped 11 Billion Gallons of Sewage

 

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 30, 2013 (ENS) – Six months after Superstorm Sandy struck the U.S. Atlantic coast, data from the eight hardest hit states shows that 11 [...]

smart cars
Latest News

U.S. Car Buyers Embrace New Fuel Efficiency Standards

April 30, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Car Buyers Embrace New Fuel Efficiency Standards

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2013 (ENS) – Consumer demand for new fuel-efficient vehicles is high in the United States and electrics are gaining in popularity, finds a new [...]

salmon
Land Use/Forests

Bristol Bay: Largest Salmon Fishery vs Giant Mine Proposal

April 29, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Bristol Bay: Largest Salmon Fishery vs Giant Mine Proposal

 

SEATTLE, Washington, April 29, 2013 (ENS) – If Bristol Bay, Alaska is opened to mining, the ore deposit would be mined for decades, and the wastes would require [...]

oilseed rape
Latest News

European Union Restricts Bee-Harming Insecticides

April 29, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on European Union Restricts Bee-Harming Insecticides

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 29, 2013 (ENS) – The European Commission will restrict the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides harmful to bees, imposing the world’s first continental ban on [...]

No Picture
Latest News

New York City Starts Recycling All Rigid Plastics

April 29, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on New York City Starts Recycling All Rigid Plastics

 

NEW YORK, New York, April 29, 2013 (ENS) – New York City is expanding its recycling program to allow for the first time the recycling of all rigid [...]

Chernobyl
At Risk

Ukraine President Orders Financial Aid for Chernobyl Victims

April 26, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Ukraine President Orders Financial Aid for Chernobyl Victims

 

KIEV, Ukraine, April 26, 2013 (ENS) – On the 27th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych today laid flowers at the Memorial to [...]

forest elephant
At Risk

Elephants Slaughtered Amidst Chaos in Central African Republic

April 26, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Elephants Slaughtered Amidst Chaos in Central African Republic

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 26, 2013 (ENS) – Conservation groups have been forced to evacuate their staff members from the Central African Republic, where large numbers of elephants are [...]

No Picture
Latest News

American University Inaugurates William K. Reilly Fund

April 26, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on American University Inaugurates William K. Reilly Fund

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 26, 2013 (ENS) – To celebrate Earth Week 2013, American University’s Center for Environmental Policy has launched the William K. Reilly Fund for Environmental Governance [...]

lake research
Latest News

Ontario Government Rescues Experimental Lakes Area

April 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Ontario Government Rescues Experimental Lakes Area

 

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, April 25, 2013 (ENS) – The Ontario Government has stepped in to save a unique freshwater research facility in the Experimental Lakes Area after the [...]

mine signs
Latest News

Black Warrior Riverkeeper Sues to Stop Polluting Coal Mine

April 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Black Warrior Riverkeeper Sues to Stop Polluting Coal Mine

 

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 25, 2013 (ENS) – Black Warrior Riverkeeper filed a citizen lawsuit under the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act for 758 [...]

bike sharing
Latest News

Global Bike-Sharing Fleet Tops 500,000 Bicycles

April 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Global Bike-Sharing Fleet Tops 500,000 Bicycles

 

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 25, 2013 (ENS) – More than 500 cities in 49 countries host advanced bike-sharing programs, with a combined fleet exceeding 500,000 bicycles, finds new [...]

wildfire
Air/Climate

Earth Sets 1,400 Year Record for Warm Temperatures

April 24, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Earth Sets 1,400 Year Record for Warm Temperatures

 

NEW YORK, New York, April 24, 2013 (ENS) – Earth’s climate heated up more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other 30 year period in the last [...]

glacier melting
Air/Climate

Athabaskan Council: Arctic Warming Violates Our Human Rights

April 23, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Athabaskan Council: Arctic Warming Violates Our Human Rights

 

WHITEHORSE, Yukon, Canada, April 23, 2013 (ENS) – The Arctic Athabaskan Council today filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, requesting a declaration that Canada [...]

Gavin power plant
Energy

Court Orders EPA to Impose Power Plant Water Pollution Rule

April 23, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Court Orders EPA to Impose Power Plant Water Pollution Rule

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 23, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must meet a court-ordered deadline to issue regulations that clean up power plant water pollution, the [...]

President Obama
Air/Climate

Earth Day in the USA: 2013

April 22, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Earth Day in the USA: 2013

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2013 (ENS) – “We cannot afford to ignore what the overwhelming judgment of science tells us: that climate change is real and that it [...]

boy, demonstration
Latest News

Earth Day Network Expands to One Billion

April 22, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Earth Day Network Expands to One Billion

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2013 (ENS) – What started in 1970 as a teach-in about the environment has expanded year by year until Earth Day actions this year [...]

aluminium factory
Land Use/Forests

Inner-City Pollution in East Afghanistan

April 19, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Inner-City Pollution in East Afghanistan

 

By Hijratullah Ekhtyar

JALALABAD, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, April 19, 2013 (ENS) – From the outside, the building in the residential district of Jalalabad’s Do Saraka area looks like any [...]

Haverstraw Bay
Latest News

New York’s First Desalination Plant Raises Radiation Fears

April 19, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on New York’s First Desalination Plant Raises Radiation Fears

 

By Jean van der Spuy

NEW YORK, New York, April 18, 2013 (ENS) – Desalination plants are typically built in dry places. But along New York’s Hudson River [...]

oil spill
At Risk

Keystone XL Pipeline ‘All Risk, No Reward’ State Dept. Told

April 19, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Keystone XL Pipeline ‘All Risk, No Reward’ State Dept. Told

 

GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, April 18, 2013 (ENS) – Opponents of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline packed a State Department public hearing on its latest environmental analysis of [...]

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