Gov/Politics
UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress
NEW YORK, New York, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Protecting the environment must be at the core of efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030, finds a high-level [...]
Month: May 2013
Culture
National Trails System Expands by 28 Trails in 18 States
WASHINGTON, DC, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Federal officials today designated 28 trails as national recreation trails, adding roughly 650 miles of trails in 18 states to the [...]
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Feds Must Analyze Oil Spill Dispersant Effects on Wildlife
SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 30, 2013 (ENS) – The federal government must analyze the effects of the California Dispersants Plan to determine whether the chemicals that break up [...]
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UN Warns of Global Shift ‘From a Fish to a Jellyfish Ocean’
ROME, Italy, May 30, 2013 (ENS) – Jumps in jellyfish populations following overfishing is one reason why fish in the Mediterranean and Black seas are declining, finds a [...]
Energy
Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Southern California Edison’s statements [...]
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EPA Limits Formaldehyde Exposure From Wood Products
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – Giving expression to a law unanimously passed by Congress in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed two rules to [...]
Business
Guilty of Pesticide Crimes, Wal-Mart Fined $81 Million
WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores today pleaded guilty to illegally handling and disposing of hazardous pesticides at its retail stores across the [...]
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Harmonized Charging Key to Global Electric Mobility
BERLIN, Germany, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – Chancellor Angela Merkel restated her goal of putting one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2020 at a two-day conference [...]
At Risk
‘Extremely Active’ 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted
WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – The United States should prepare for an “active or extremely active hurricane season” this year, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center says in [...]
Air/Climate
Tesla Repays $465M Loan to New U.S. Energy Secretary
WASHINGTON, DC, May 27, 2013 (ENS) – On Wednesday, the day after Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Energy, electric automaker Tesla Motors [...]
Air/Climate
Mount Everest Glaciers Shrinking
MILAN, Italy, May 26, 2013 (ENS) – Glaciers in the Mount Everest region of the Himalayas have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the [...]
Food
U.S. Senate Bars GMO Labels as March Against Monsanto Revs Up
WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – Two days before thousands of people across the United States plan to march against Monsanto’s genetically engineered crops, the U.S. Senate [...]
Air/Climate
Beijing’s Goal: 50,000 Electric Vehicles by 2015
BEIJING, China, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – The City of Beijing plans to have 50,000 electric cars on the streets by 2015, 30,000 of which will be owned [...]
At Risk
EPA Employees on Furlough for ‘Don’t Fry Day’
WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – Most of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 17,700 employees are on furlough today to meet the budget requirements of the sequester, [...]
Air/Climate
Global Scientists, California Governor Call for Climate Action
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Warning that Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point at which human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to [...]
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U.S. Groundwater Consumption Accelerating
RESTON, Virginia, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Aquifers across the United States are being drawn down at an increasing pace, finds a new study released today by the [...]
Land Use/Forests
Mountains of Wealth in Afghanistan
By Zabihullah Ghazi
ASSADABAD, Afghanistan, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Illegal and risky it may be, but mining for gemstones is an irresistible way of earning a living [...]
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Act to Stop ‘Climate Deniers’ From Winning the Information War
By Nick Fillmore
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement [...]
Land Use/Forests
Australia OKs Mine on World Heritage Quality Cape York
CANBERRA, Australia, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – Australian Environment Minister Tony Burke has approved Rio Tinto Alcan’s new South of Embley bauxite mine on Cape York, the Queensland [...]
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Public Employees Sue Over ‘Political Deals’ Behind Wolf Delisting
WASHINGTON, DC, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – The Obama Administration’s plan to remove the gray wolf from the protections of the Endangered Species Act, as detailed in a [...]