Environment News Service News Index
November 2010
- Latin America Suffers Intense and Deadly Rains
- UN Seeks Record $7.4 Billion for Humanitarian Aid in 2011
- America Faces a New ‘Sputnik Moment’
- Vessel Sewage Banned in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
- Court Orders Uprooting of Monsanto Biotech Sugar Beets
- Stakes High, Expectations Low as Climate Talks Open in Cancun
- Chemical Company Compensates EPA $270 Million in Bankruptcy Settlement
- U.S. Designates Critical Habitat for Threatened Polar Bears
- ‘Smart from the Start’ Plan Speeds Atlantic Offshore Wind Development
- Being Too Clean Can Make Young People Sick
- EPA Sued to Force Regulation of Lead-Based Ammunition, Fishing Gear
- Fishing Nations Fail to Safeguard Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
- Hope for Wild Tigers Rises on Political, Financial Pledges
- Giant Earth Art Displays Dramatize Climate Urgency
- Birds Disappear From Afghanistan, Leaving Pests to Flourish
- Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Unite Against Mining
- Wildlife Conservation Society Pledges $50 Million to Save Tigers
- Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Climb as Economy Recovers
- Rich Nations Fail to Keep Copenhagen Climate Funding Promise
- Carbon-eating Microbes Discovered Deep in Oceanic Crust
- Massachusetts OKs Power Purchase Agreement for First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm
- Russia Bans Korean Pine Logging Ahead of Tiger Summit
- Eight Local Governments First to Get Climate Adaptation Help
- Over 10,000 Ground Zero Plaintiffs Settle for $817 Million
- Republicans Threaten to Block Nuclear Treaty with Russia
- U.S., Kazakhstan Secure Weapons-Grade Plutonium From Soviet-era Reactor
- Deepwater Horizon Spill Report Blames BP, Contractors, Government
- Iran’s Northern Fishing Industry Wanes
- Areas Violating Lead Standards Host Smelters, Battery Recyclers
- EPA Will Test 134 More Chemicals for Endocrine Disruption
- Hawaiian False Killer Whale Proposed for Endangered Status
- Schwarzenegger Forges Global Climate Action Coalition With Regional Leaders
- Light Wave Kills Hospital Superbugs, Harmless to People
- World’s Police Unite for Environmental Crime Crackdown
- GM Exec Drives Chevy Volt: Detroit to Los Angeles Auto Show
- Obama’s New E-Waste Task Force Spurs Recovery of Metals, Minerals
- Buzzards Bay Oil Spill Natural Resource Damages Over $6 Million
- New Georgia-Pacific Policy Protects South’s Natural Hardwood Forests
- Kenya’s High Court Restores Amboseli to National Park Status
- Haiti’s Cholera Could Spread to U.S., $164 Million Control Plan Issued
- G-20 Leaders Progress Toward Fossil Fuel Subsidy Phase-Out
- Obama’s First Wildlife Refuge Depends on Conservation Easements
- EPA: Cancer Risk of Burning Off BP Oil Less Than One in a Million
- Marine Sanctuaries Recommended for Half Australia’s South West Oceans
- White House Staffers Rewrote Report to Justify Deepwater Drilling Ban
- General Electric Will Buy 25,000 Electric Vehicles by 2015
- Gulf Oil Spill Commission: Safety Not Sacrificed to Save Money
- EPA Subpoenas Halliburton, Seeking Fracking Secrets
- Environment Central to New U.S.-Indonesian ‘Comprehensive Partnership’
- Green Goals Motivate Organizers of Global Sports Events
- California Air Quality Plans Inadequate
- Army Corps May Permit Green Power Developers to Fill Wetlands
- Chemicals in Fast Food Wrappers Show Up in Human Blood
- ‘India and America Are Indispensable Partners’
- States Use Stimulus Funds to Fit Workers for Clean Energy Jobs
- Louisiana Ship Co. Used by National Science Foundation Fined $2.1 Million
- $100 Billion a Year Climate Change Financing ‘Feasible’
- EPA Denies Petition to Ban Lead in Fishing Gear
- Tropical Storm Tomas Heads for Shattered Haiti
- Jewelers Boycott Pebble Mine Gold to Save Bristol Bay Salmon/A>
- First Female EPA Fugitive Captured in the Dominican Republic
- Hunters Strengthen Rights in Three States, N. Dakota Keeps Canned Hunts
- California Votes In Democrats, Rejects Proposition 23
- Elections Usher in Divided Congress, Environment, Energy Issues Remain
- Parkinson’s Disease Linked to Pollutants in Urban Areas
- Canada Rejects Gold-Copper Mine Over Environmental Concerns
- Judge Voids Coal Mine Expansion Permit on Navajo Tribal Land
- 23 States Get $2.4 Billion for High-Speed Rail, California Accountability in Doubt
- Governor Moves Virginia Tranportation in a Greener Direction
- Naval Station Norfolk Marks Construction Completion at Superfund Site
- SOS: New Fund Created to Tackle Extinction Crisis
- Kenya Rangers Kill Three Elephant Poachers
