Energy
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 [...]
Oceans
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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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
Energy
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’
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
Food
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
Energy
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
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]