Air/Climate
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 [...]
Month: April 2013
Air/Climate
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Culture
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
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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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]