Gov/Politics
UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress
NEW YORK, New York, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Protecting the environment must be at the core of efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030, finds a high-level [...]
Gov/Politics
Energy
Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Southern California Edison’s statements [...]
Air/Climate
Arctic Council Prioritizes Sustainable Development, Climate Action
KIRUNA, Sweden, May 16, 2013 (ENS) – Ministers from the eight Arctic states and representatives of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples Wednesday adopted a shared vision statement for the [...]
Gov/Politics
Australia Trims Environmental Protection in Deficit Budget
CANBERRA, Australia, May 14, 2013 (ENS) – Environmentalists criticized tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry and cuts to renewable energy funding in the Australian government’s new budget, [...]
Air/Climate
U.S., South Korean Leaders Affirm Climate Change Cooperation
WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2013 (ENS) – In her first foreign visit since taking office in February, South Korean President Park Geun-hye joined with President Barack Obama today [...]
Air/Climate
U.S., Japan, G8 Commit to Climate Change Action
WASHINGTON, DC, April 18, 2013 (ENS) – Support for global action to curb climate change is growing stronger within the G8 group of the world’s largest industrial democracies, [...]
Gov/Politics
Jewell Will Handle $11.9 Billion Interior Budget in 2014
WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget, “starts getting the Department of the Interior out of a ditch,” said outgoing Interior [...]
Energy
Obama’s 2014 Budget Sets New Energy Goals
WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today introduced his Fiscal Year 2014 budget, which sets two new goals – to cut U.S. net oil [...]
Air/Climate
California, China Officials Sign Clean Air Cooperation Pact
BEIJING, China, April 10, 2013 (ENS) – To strengthen and coordinate efforts to improve air quality, California Governor Jerry Brown today signed the first agreement of its kind [...]
Air/Climate
NASA’s Top Climate Scientist Retires to Activist Life
NEW YORK, New York, April 3, 2013 (ENS) – Outspoken climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is retiring as director of the cutting-edge [...]
Gov/Politics
Canada Turns Its Back on International Drought Treaty
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, April 2, 2013 (ENS) – The Government of Canada is quietly withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD, the only legally binding international [...]
Energy
Obama Advocates $2 Billion Fund for Advanced Cars, Fuels
ARGONNE, Illinois, March 15, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today again called on Congress to establish a $2 billion Energy Security Trust for investments in research that [...]
Air/Climate
Hunters, Anglers Urge Obama to Act on Climate Change
WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2013 (ENS) – Hunters and anglers from across the United States are concerned about the impact of climate change on wildlife and natural resources [...]
Gov/Politics
Land Reform Center-Stage in Kenyan Election
By Robert Wanjala
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 5, 2013 (ENS) – Tackling long running-disputes over land is certain to be one of the key challenges for whoever wins in Kenya’s [...]
Gov/Politics
Obama Names McCarthy to Head EPA, Moniz for Energy
WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama has selected Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in his second term. In that position [...]
Air/Climate
Sequester Cuts Hit Clean Air, Water, Energy, National Parks
WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2013 (ENS) – Air and water quality, national parks and surrounding communities, and clean energy development will be hard hit by across-the-board spending cuts [...]
Gov/Politics
Wildlife at the Mercy of International Trade Politics
ARLINGTON, Virginia, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – In a rare reversal of diplomatic relations, the U.S. government has aligned with China on a proposal to ban international trade [...]
Gov/Politics
Sequester Spending Cuts Will Hurt the Environment
WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2013 (ENS) – If Congress does not act this coming week, automatic federal spending cuts, called the sequester, will go into effect March 1 [...]
Air/Climate
‘Forward on Climate’ Rally Draws Nearly 50,000
WASHINGTON, DC, February 17, 2013 (ENS) – Tens of thousands of people from across the country rallied in the nation’s capital on this chilly day to demand that [...]
At Risk
Climate, Syria, Nuclear Test, High on Global Risk Agenda
WASHINGTON, DC, February 14, 2013 (ENS) – Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held talks in Washington D.C. today focused on high risk issues, [...]