Energy
Enbridge Pipeline Spills Oil in Wisconsin
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – An oil spill from a broken Enbridge Energy pipeline in Wisconsin has been contained, the company says, but it could not have [...]
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Business
London Olympics Clears Sustainability Hurdles
LONDON, UK, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games has met the vast majority of its sustainability targets, says the United Nations [...]
At Risk
Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Kills 14
KAMPALA, Uganda, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – Uganda’s Ministry of Health is advising residents to avoid eating dead animals especially monkeys, after declaring an outbreak of the highly infectious [...]
Air/Climate
American West Faces 21st Century ‘Mega-drought’
CORVALLIS, Oregon, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – The climate’s “new normal” for most of the coming century will parallel the long-term drought that hit western North America from 2000 [...]
Land Use/Forests
Kashmiri Journalist Arrested for Exposing Felling of Historic Trees
By Zafar Iqbal
NEELUM VALLEY, Jammu and Kashmir, July 27, 2012 (ENS) – A journalist has been arrested by police and is being detained after the publication of photos [...]
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London Green Group Urges a ‘Plastic-Bag-Free’ Olympics
LONDON, UK, July 27, 2012 (ENS) – As the first day of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games dawns with the ringing of bells across Britain, the grassroots campaign group [...]
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Asbestos Crimes
URBANA, Illinois, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A 10-year prison sentence was imposed today on an Illinois man who was convicted of illegally removing asbestos insulation and exposing [...]
Air/Climate
Texas Judge Invalidates Las Brisas Energy Air Pollution Permit
AUSTIN, Texas, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A state air pollution permit for a petroleum coke-fueled power plant planned for a city on the Texas coast was struck [...]
Energy
Tar Sands Protests Mark Kalamazoo Spill Anniversary
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – People across the United States and Canada this week are marking the two-year anniversary of the Kalamazoo River tar sands oil [...]
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On Eluding Extradition
By Captain Paul Watson, founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
{Editor’s Note: Paul Watson was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on May 13, 2012 on a 10-year-old warrant from Costa Rica [...]
Energy
Straw to Ethanol Conversion Plant Opens in Germany
STRAUBING, Germany, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – Swiss chemicals company Clariant has opened Germany’s largest pilot plant for making climate-friendly cellulose ethanol from agricultural waste.
This biofuel of the [...]
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Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History
By Lester R. Brown, founder, Earth Policy Institute
WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2012 (ENS) – In their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, American architect [...]
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Rio+20: Outcome and Follow-up
By Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11, 2012 (ENS) – Much has been said in the press and elsewhere about the disappointment many have [...]
Air/Climate
Crop-Damaging Drought Will Raise Food Prices: USDA
WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – Retail food prices are predicted to rise as soon as this fall due to the high temperatures, low rainfall and 70-year record [...]
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Legal International Elephant Ivory Trade Proposed
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – “We meet at a time when the illegal killing and illegal trade in African elephants and rhinoceros have reached the highest levels [...]
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Judge Upholds Ogeechee Riverkeeper Challenge to Polluter
STATESBORO, Georgia, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – A county judge has handed the nonprofit conservation group Ogeechee Riverkeeper a victory in its efforts to stop a Chicago-based textile [...]
Air/Climate
Greenland’s Extreme July Meltdown
WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Virtually the entire ice sheet covering Greenland – from its coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center – experienced some degree of melting [...]
At Risk
Five Die as Vacationers Flee Fires in Spain, Croatia
BARCELONA, Spain, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Four people have died in two giant wildfires now devastating northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region. Since they blazed up on the weekend, the [...]
Energy
U. Michigan Car Wins Fourth Straight American Solar Challenge
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – The 2012 American Solar Challenge, an eight-day 1,650-mile competition for solar-powered vehicles, ended in St. Paul on Saturday with the University [...]
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Landsat at 40: Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space
WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – Today marks the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first satellite in the Landsat [...]