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Shell Oil Unprepared for 2012 Arctic Drilling, Finds U.S. Review

March 14, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Shell Oil Unprepared for 2012 Arctic Drilling, Finds U.S. Review

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2013 (ENS) – “Shell screwed up in 2012 and we’re not going to let them screw up when they try to drill in the [...]

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Sharks Win Protection at International Trade Conference

March 11, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Sharks Win Protection at International Trade Conference

 

BANGKOK, Thailand, March 11, 2013 (ENS) – Governments have voted to protect five shark species and two species of manta rays at the ongoing meeting of the Convention [...]

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Energy

Responders Secure Damaged Oil Well in Louisiana Marshlands

February 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Responders Secure Damaged Oil Well in Louisiana Marshlands

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 28, 2013 (ENS) – Response crews have stopped oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from an inactive oil and gas well that was [...]

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Energy

Shell Oil Cancels Offshore Alaska Drilling for 2013

February 27, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Shell Oil Cancels Offshore Alaska Drilling for 2013

 

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – After its troubled attempt to open an oil frontier off Alaska’s north shore last year, Royal Dutch Shell today [...]

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Court: Whale Defense Group Sea Shepherd ‘Embodiment of Piracy’

February 27, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Court: Whale Defense Group Sea Shepherd ‘Embodiment of Piracy’

 

SEATTLE, Washington, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – A U.S. appeals court has sided with the Japanese whalers suing the whale conservation nonprofit Sea Shepherd, overturning a lower court [...]

Deepwater Horizon fire
Energy

BP Trial Opening Day: ‘Greed Devastated the Gulf’

February 26, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on BP Trial Opening Day: ‘Greed Devastated the Gulf’

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 26, 2013 (ENS) – The trial to determine whether British oil company BP and its partners were guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct [...]

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At Risk

Japanese Whaler Rams Sea Shepherd Ships in Australian Waters

February 19, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Japanese Whaler Rams Sea Shepherd Ships in Australian Waters

 

SOUTHERN OCEAN, February 20, 2013 (ENS) – The Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru has collided with two whale conservation vessels and its own refueling tanker in Australia’s [...]

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Energy

Transocean Fined $400 Million for Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

February 14, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Transocean Fined $400 Million for Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 14, 2013 (ENS) – Transocean Deepwater Inc. pleaded guilty today to a violation of the Clean Water Act for its illegal conduct leading to [...]

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Food

EU Parliament Uses New Powers to End Overfishing

February 8, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on EU Parliament Uses New Powers to End Overfishing

 

STRASBOURG, France, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – A major reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, which aims to end overfishing, ban discards and restrict catches to sustainable [...]

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U.S. Navy Ship Aground in Pristine Philippine Reef Park

January 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Navy Ship Aground in Pristine Philippine Reef Park

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 25, 2013 (ENS) – All of the fuel onboard a U.S. Navy minesweeper grounded in the Philippines’ Tubbataha Reefs Natural Marine Park was removed today [...]

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Energy

Big Wave Energy Test Center Sited at Newport, Oregon

January 15, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Big Wave Energy Test Center Sited at Newport, Oregon

 

NEWPORT, Oregon, January 15, 2013 (ENS) – The nation’s first utility-scale, grid-connected wave energy test facility will be located at Newport on the Oregon coast, where powerful waves [...]

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U.S. Arctic Offshore Drilling Gets High-Level, Expedited Review

January 8, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Arctic Offshore Drilling Gets High-Level, Expedited Review

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2013 (ENS) – Federal ocean safety regulators have launched an expedited, high-level assessment of the 2012 offshore Arctic drilling program in the Beaufort and [...]

Kulluk
At Risk

Shell, Coast Guard Refloat Grounded Drill Rig

January 7, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Shell, Coast Guard Refloat Grounded Drill Rig

 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 7, 2013 (ENS) – Late Sunday night crews were successful in refloating the Shell drilling rig Kulluk that grounded in the Gulf of Alaska on [...]

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Energy

Transocean Guilty in Deepwater Horizon Spill, Fined $1.4 Billion

January 3, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Transocean Guilty in Deepwater Horizon Spill, Fined $1.4 Billion

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 3, 2013 (ENS) – Transocean Deepwater Inc. admitted violating the Clean Water Act and will pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines for [...]

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China’s Corals Fall Victim to ‘Wicked Environmental Problems’

December 28, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on China’s Corals Fall Victim to ‘Wicked Environmental Problems’

 

TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, December 28, 2012 (ENS) – China’s coral reefs have declined by 80 percent in the past three decades, destroyed by the consequences of economic development, [...]

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Obama Proposes to Expand Two California Marine Sanctuaries

December 21, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Obama Proposes to Expand Two California Marine Sanctuaries

 

WASHINGTON, DC, December 21, 2012 (ENS) – The size of two national marine sanctuaries off the coast of north-central California could be doubled if the expansion proposed today [...]

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Petition: Plastic in NW Hawaiian Islands Needs Superfund Cleanup

December 13, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Petition: Plastic in NW Hawaiian Islands Needs Superfund Cleanup

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, December 12, 2012 (ENS) – Appalled by the amount of plastic debris floating in the Pacific Ocean, the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity is petitioning [...]

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Watson Takes Command of Sea Shepherd Whale Defense Fleet

December 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Watson Takes Command of Sea Shepherd Whale Defense Fleet

 

FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – Captain Paul Watson, founder and president of the marine wildlife conservation organization, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has resurfaced at the [...]

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U.S. Proposes Federal Protection for 66 Coral Species

November 30, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Proposes Federal Protection for 66 Coral Species

 

WASHINGTON, DC, November 30, 2012 (ENS) – Sixty-six species of coral in U.S. waters should be protected under the Endangered Species Act because global warming, disease and ocean [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Oyster Farm Loses Permit at Point Reyes National Seashore

November 29, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Oyster Farm Loses Permit at Point Reyes National Seashore

 

WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2012 (ENS) – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today decided to let the Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s 40-year operating permit expire at Point [...]

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