Air/Climate
Flashpoint Issue 2015: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
WASHINGTON, DC, December 29, 2014 (ENS) – A renewed battle over the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is shaping up for the new year in North America.
The [...]
Year: 2014
At Risk
Ebola Takes No Holiday
MONROVIA, Liberia, December 24, 2014 (ENS) – Christmas will be “like any other working day” for UN humanitarian worker Chris Huddart, who, like thousands across West Africa, is [...]
AmeriScan
AmeriScan: December 22, 2014
XTO Energy Must Restore Areas Damaged by Fracking … Savannah River Site Nuclear Waste Tanks to Be Closed … Kentucky Approves Big Solar Project … Protections Reinstated for Western [...]
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First U.S. Coal Ash Rule Disappoints Environmental Groups
WASHINGTON, DC, December 20, 2104 (ENS) – The first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of the ash left after burning coal to produce electricity were [...]
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EU Traffic Noise Causes 10,000 Premature Deaths a Year
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 19, 2014 (ENS) – More than 125 million Europeans could be exposed to levels of road traffic noise above legal guidelines, causing up to 10,000 [...]
Energy
New York State to Ban Fracking: ‘Reckless to Proceed’
ALBANY, New York, December 18, 2014 (ENS) – As of early next year, New York State will be permanently off-limits to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and [...]
Energy
Obama Bars Oil Industry From Alaska’s Bristol Bay
WASHINGTON, DC, December 16, 2014 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today designated the waters of Bristol Bay as off limits to oil and gas leasing for exploration, development [...]
Air/Climate
Lima Climate Talks Produce Weak Draft for Global Treaty
LIMA, Peru, December 14, 2014 (ENS) – A climate deal reached late today by world governments at a UN conference in Lima keeps negotiations on track for a [...]
AmeriScan
AmeriScan: December 13, 2014
California Breathes Rainsoaked Sigh of Relief … Copper Mine at Apache Leap Passes Congress … Feds Formalize Nuclear Energy Tribal Working Group … Red Knot Shorebird Listed as Threatened … [...]
Business
Green Investors Flunk Fracking Industry on Impact Management
BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 11, 2014 (ENS) – ExxonMobil, Chevron, and WPX Energy are ranked among the worst fracking companies in a new report by a coalition of green [...]
Air/Climate
Crunch Time at UN Climate Talks; 20,000 March for Justice
LIMA, Peru, December 11, 2014 (ENS) – Urging “Climate Justice Now!” an estimated 20,000 people took over the streets of Lima Wednesday for the People’s Climate March. Their [...]
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Sunscreens, Cosmetics Found in Antarctic Waters
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, December 10, 2014 (ENS) – Polluting chemicals found in personal care products such as cosmetics, soaps and sunscreens has been discovered in waters off Antarctica [...]
Air/Climate
World’s Mayors Adopt New Tool to Calculate Climate Emissions
LIMA, Peru, December 9, 2014 (ENS) – The first global standard to measure greenhouse gas emissions from cities was launched Monday in tandem with the ongoing UN climate [...]
At Risk
Manila Braces for Super Typhoon, One Million Evacuate
MANILA, Philippines, December 7, 2014 (ENS) – Super Typhoon Hagupit, known locally as Ruby, is expected to hit Metro Manila starting Monday evening.
Packing sustained winds of more [...]
Food
EU Countries Granted the Right to Ban GMO Crops
BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 4, 2014 (ENS) – A political agreement on new legislation to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically [...]
Air/Climate
2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike
LIMA, Peru, December 3, 2014 (ENS) – The year 2014 is likely to go down in the record books as one of the hottest years in modern history, [...]
Food
Consensus Reached On Pacific Bluefin Tuna Conservation
APIA, Samoa, December 3, 2014 (ENS) – Pacific fishing nations have reached agreement on new rules for the conservation of Pacific Bluefin tuna, a species that is nearly [...]
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Daimler Cylinder Coating Saves Fuel, Cuts CO2 Emissions
LYON, France, December 3, 2014 (ENS) – Daimler’s new twin wire arc spraying process that reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from combustion engines, has captured another award. [...]
Air/Climate
Universal Climate Deal at Stake at UN Summit in Peru
LIMA, Peru, December 1, 2014 (ENS) – Climate negotiators from around the world are gathered in Lima today to hammer out a new universal agreement limiting greenhouse gas [...]
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Belgian Scientists Turn Sawdust Into ‘Green Hydrocarbons’
LEUVEN, Belgium, December 1, 2014 (ENS) – Belgian researchers have found a way to convert ordinary sawdust into building blocks for gasoline.
Using a new chemical process, scientists [...]