WASHINGTON, DC, May 10, 2012 (ENS) – Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent, and Congressmen Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, today introduced a legislation to end billions of [...]
PRIMM, Nevada, May 8, 2012 (ENS) – The first utility-scale solar energy facility on U.S. public lands started delivering power on Monday with the flip of a switch [...]
MONTPELIER, Vermont, May 8, 2012 (ENS) – Vermont is about to become the first U.S. state to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.
The Vermont House [...]
IDINTHAKARAI, Tamil Nadu, India, March 21, 2012 (ENS) – Police Monday arrested 190 demonstrators objecting to the start of work at the stalled Kudankulam nuclear power plant in [...]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 29, 2010 (ENS) – The Center for Biological Diversity Thursday filed a lawsuit against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Minerals Management Service to [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 29, 2010 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy announced today the formation of a blue ribbon commission to evaluate policy options for a safe, [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 27, 2010 (ENS) – Clean energy jobs and economic recovery took center stage in President Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address tonight before [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2010 (ENS) – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced changes to the federal onshore oil and gas leasing program that he says will improve [...]
FRESNO, California, January 6, 2010 (ENS) – At least one nuclear reactor is being planned for California’s agricultural Central Valley but it is already running into grassroots opposition and [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 5, 2010 (ENS) – To help states develop strategies that will improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings and reduce costs and emissions, the National Governors [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 4, 2010 (ENS) – The National Park Service today announced the decision by its Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places that Nantucket Sound [...]
TOPEKA, Kansas, January 25, 2010 (ENS) – Westar Energy today settled an air pollution lawsuit brought by the federal government by agreeing to spend at least $500 million [...]
QUITO, Ecuador, January 19, 2010 (ENS) – Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the most biodiverse area in all of South America, [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2010 (ENS) – To create green aviation fuels, diesel, and gasoline that can be transported and sold using existing fueling infrastructure, the Obama administration [...]
HOUSTON, Texas, January 15, 2010 (ENS) – A Rainforest Action Network team of runners that is openly critical of Chevron’s human rights record in Ecuador was kicked out [...]
TOPEKA, Kansas, January 14, 2010 (ENS) – A southwest Kansas electric cooperative Wednesday filed a revised permit application for construction of a controversial 895 megawatt coal-fired electrical generating [...]
BALTIMORE, Maryland, January 13, 2010 (ENS) – Eight landfill methane capture projects were recognized by the U.S. EPA Tuesday for innovation in generating renewable energy and reducing greenhouse [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 24, 2009 (ENS) – More than 80 percent of Americans surveyed in a new public opinion poll support action to limit the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide [...]
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, December 23, 2009 (ENS) – A $93 million court settlement requiring Duke Energy, one of the America’s largest electric power companies, to eliminate sulfur dioxide emissions [...]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 21, 2009 (ENS) – Ecuador’s initiative to protect the climate and the rainforest of Yasuni National Park by leaving its largest oil reserve in the ground [...]
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