Environment News Service News Index September 2010

Environment News Service News Index

• British Missionary and Eco-Activist Fights Expulsion from Peru

• USA and BP Each Fortify Deepwater Drilling Safety Rules

• Record-Breaking Storm Soaks U.S. East Coast

• Energy Powerhouse: Trapping Light With Nano-Thin Solar Film

• One-fifth of All Plant Species at Risk of Extinction

• Global River Crisis Erodes Freshwater Security

• Mexico: Landslide at Dawn Kills Fewer Than Thought

• Noise Plus Chemical Exposure Amplifies Workers’ Risk of Deafness

• World’s Largest Tiger Reserve Clearcut for Plantations

• Obsolete Chemicals Law Threatens Business Recovery

• EPA Calls for Public Input on Draft Chesapeake Bay Pollution Budget

• Dentists Must Swallow New Federal Mercury Discharge Rule

• Chevron Forces Greenpeacers Off Drillship Anchor Chain

• Greenpeacers Occupy Survival Pod on Drillship Anchor Chain

• INSIGHTS: Injustice Toward Betty Krawczyk a Catalyst for BC Environmental Movement

• Climate Heats Up, But Global Warming Treaty Out in the Cold

• Gorillas the Origin of Human Malaria’s Most Lethal Strain

• World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens in English Channel

• Greenpeacers Occupy Survival Pod on Drillship Anchor Chain

• California Regulators Approve 33 Percent Renewable Energy Standard

• Cleanup of Radioactive Water at Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant Begins

• European Retailers Begin Delivering on Their Green Promises

• Futuristic, Fast, and Fuel-Efficient: Three Cars Share $10 Million Prize

• Deadly Typhoon Wreaks Havoc Across China, Taiwan, India

• Cyclists Fund Fence for Kenya’s Fragile Lake Nakuru National Park

• Global Clean Cookstoves Alliance Aims to Save Millions of Lives

• Maryland Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate Dies in Bike Crash

• Heinz Family Foundation Awards $1 Million to Environmental Innovators

• Using Pesticides to Battle Bed Bugs May Harm More Humans Than Bugs

• Greek Shipper Fined $4 Million for Dumping Oil Through ‘Magic Hose’

• The Wicked Well is Dead, Complete Gulf Restoration Pledged

• Manganese in Drinking Water Lowers Children’s IQ

• Sea Level Rise Linked to 20 Years of Deep Ocean Warming

• Lawsuit: Feds Illegally Fail to Conserve River Herring, Shad

• Clean Up the World Volunteers Safeguard Diversity of Life

• U.S. Tsunami Warning System Leaves Coastal Residents Vulnerable

• EPA to Drop Climate Leaders Program for Corporations

• Ozone Holes No Longer Growing

• Lawsuit Claims Feds ‘Hiding’ Hundreds of BP Oil Spill Flow Rate Documents

• Relief Well Intercepts Damaged BP Oil Well in the Gulf of Mexico

• Five States Sue Allegheny Energy Over Downwind Air Pollution

• Wild Tigers Huddle in Six Percent of Available Habitat

• Gulf of Mexico ‘Idle Iron’ Oil Wells Must Be Plugged

• Largest-Ever Pesticide Fine Imposed on 99¢ Only Stores

• Navajos Ask Supreme Court to Protect Drinking Water From Uranium

• Arctic Warms, Sea Ice Shrinks, Extinction Risk Grows

• Armenian Greens Alarmed at Mining Waste Dump Plan

• U.S. Offshore Wind Potential Four Times Total Power Generated

• Fresh Energy Animates Work Toward Millenium Development Goals

• Alaska Sues to Lift Moratorium on Offshore Oil Drilling

• Embracing The Green at New York Fashion Week

• Hundreds Park Their Own Cars to Get 30-Day Car-Sharing Cards

• Tasmanian Timber Giant Retreats from Old Growth Logging

• Brilliant Blue Birds Benefit from Partnerships Across the Americas

• BP Plans to Seal Damaged Oil Well This Weekend

• Potomac River Cleaner but Wastewater Upgrades Still Required

• Iraq’s Dwindling NGO Sector

• New York to Require Disclosure of Chemicals in Cleansers

• EPA Gets an Earful at Coal Ash Disposal Hearings

• BP Blames ‘Multiple Companies’ for Gulf Oil Spill

• Avian Experts Flock to First World Seabird Conference

• U.S. Stadiums and Sports Arenas Power Up With Solar

• NASA Summit Fosters Cleaner, Greener Aviation Future

• Australia’s New Government a Brighter Shade of Green

• Clean Water Solutions Win Awards at World Water Week

• Gulf Oil Spill Health Study to Start This Fall

• Tropical Storm Hermine Formed Over Warm Gulf Waters

• Chalmette Refining Emits a Ton of Powdery Waste

• Thousands Flee Worst Wildfire in Boulder, Colorado History

• Greenpeace Japan Anti-whaling Activists Found Guilty of Theft

• Severe Earthquake Damages Christchurch, New Zealand

• Hurricane Earl Still Large But Weakening

• Weeds That Can Kill

• BP Replaces Failed Blowout Preventer on Damaged Oil Well

• Greenland Police Arrest Greenpeace Oil Rig Demonstrators

• Another Oil Platform Explodes in Gulf of Mexico

• Huge and Dangerous, Hurricane Earl Nears North Carolina

• Court Gives Northern Spotted Owl a Fresh Chance at Recovery

• Police Kill Protester Who Took Hostages in Discovery Channel Building

• Cape Wind Completes Massachusetts Permitting With Legal Victory