KHOST, Afghanistan, March 17, 2014 (ENS) – Residents of Khost province in southeast Afghanistan say a nationwide development initiative is making a real difference to their daily lives, calming tribal tensions and boosting security as well as providing essential infrastructure. […]
Court Upholds First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Permit … EPA Allows BP to Write New Federal Contracts … Feds Sued to Force Seafood Labeling for Mercury … Asian Carp Eggs Found 250 Miles Farther North … Settlement Protects Endangered Murrelet From Predators … 74.1 MPG Wins Extreme Hypermiling Challenge […]
KALTAG, Alaska, March 13, 2014 (ENS) – This is a story that needs to be told: an ancient culture imperiled and under siege as Bering Sea fish resources are sold off to the highest bidder. Poor people eliminated from the bidding war, their subsistence resources eliminated, the spiral downward to hopelessness and despair, and then, too often, suicide. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2014 (ENS) – President Obama Barack Tuesday established the first shoreline addition to the California Coastal National Monument, protecting the Point Arena-Stornetta Unit, a spectacular stretch of public lands along the Mendocino coastline in Northern California. […]
TOKYO, Japan, March 11, 2014 (ENS) – Japan’s Emperor and Empress, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and representatives of those who lost family members gathered in Tokyo today to observe the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 that caused one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. […]
STRASBOURG, France, March 11, 2014 (ENS) – Members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee Monday approved a report for reducing the use of single-use lightweight plastic carrier bags. The report recommends a two-stage reduction target for plastic bags across the EU’s 28 Member States. […]
TOYOTA CITY, Japan, March 11, 2014 (ENS) – Toyota’s new three-wheeled i-Road electric vehicle is lightweight, super-narrow and leans way over when it zips around curves. Residents of Toyota’s hometown of Toyota City got a closer look this week as the Japanese automaker started testing them on city streets. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2014 (ENS) – From Monday evening, all night long until 9 am Tuesday morning, senators from the newly formed Senate Climate Action Task Force are holding the Senate floor to urge action on climate change. […]
NORWICH, England, UK, March 10, 2014 (ENS) – Four new gases have been detected in the atmosphere – all resulting from human activities and all contributing to destruction of the ozone layer. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 10, 2014 (ENS) – German biopharmaceutical company CureVac GmbH has won the European Union’s first innovation inducement prize for technology producing vaccines that are stable in both hot and freezing temperatures. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 7, 2014 (ENS) – President Barack Obama’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2015 withdraws federal funding for a long-delayed project to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors. […]
Keystone XL Opponents Deliver Two Million Comments … Bison Trap Blockader Arrested, Charged, Released … Kalamazoo Tar Sands Spill Demonstrators Sentenced … EPA Sued Over ‘Inert’ Pesticide Ingredients … 5,900 Gas Leaks Found Beneath Washington, DC … Catalina Island Foxes Multiply in Quick Recovery […]
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, March 6, 2014 (ENS) – The newest advancement in oil exploration is an early-phase aerial technology that can see what no other technology, including the latest 3D seismic imagery, can see, allowing explorers to pinpoint untapped reservoirs and unlock new profits, cheaper and faster., writes James Burgess of Oilprice.com. […]
Polluting Coal Companies Fined Record $27.5 Million … Superfund Project Manager Gets 14 Years for Kickbacks … Clergy Lobby Against Keystone XL Pipeline … Agencies Plead for Human Use of Water Now Protecting Fish … California Man Guilty in $7 Million Alt Energy Fraud … Groups Sue FDA Over Mercury in Dental Amalgam […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, March 5, 2014 (ENS) – Endangered jaguars will have 1,194 square miles of critical habitat in southern Arizona and New Mexico for their recovery, under a rule finalized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday. […]
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 5, 2014 (ENS) – Women whose male partners have high concentrations of three common phthalates, chemicals found in hundreds of consumer products, take longer to become pregnant than women in couples in which the male does not have high phthalate concentrations. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 5, 2014 (ENS) – The Peugeot 308 sedan was named Car of the Year 2014 Monday at the Palexpo on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show. The French automaker’s winning entry received 307 points from the 58 jury members, with top points from 22 of the jurors after intensive test drives. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2014 (ENS) – President Obama today released a $3.9 trillion budget plan for Fiscal Year 2015 with many green features, including funds for his Climate Action Plan and a new Climate Resiliency Fund. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 3, 2014 (ENS) – “Some of the world’s most charismatic animals are in immediate danger of extinction as a result of habitat loss and illicit trafficking,” warned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as the world marks the first World Wildlife Day. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 3, 2014 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a rule intended to reduce air pollution from passenger cars and trucks by lowering the allowable sulfur content of gasoline and setting new vehicle emissions standards. […]
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