FRANKFORT, Kentucky, October 8, 2012 (ENS) – Environmentalists’ discovery of thousands of false pollution reports at dozens of coal mines in eastern Kentucky has prompted a Kentucky court to allow, for the first time, citizens and groups to intervene in a Clean Water Act enforcement case brought by the state. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2012 (ENS) – Polluted with raw sewage and industrial waste, the Guaire River in Venezuela’s capital city, Caracas, is to be cleaned with a loan of US$300 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 13, 2012 (ENS) – New Zealand’s longest navigable river, the Whanganui, has been given “legal standing and an independent voice” under a framework agreement to settle the historical claims of indigenous people, the Whanganui Iwi. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 7, 2012 (ENS) – Provisions to deal with aquatic invasive species, habitat degradation and the effects of climate change are featured in the newly amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed by U.S. and Canadian officials today in Washington. […]
ROME, Italy, September 4, 2012 (ENS) – Soaring prices for grains and soybeans could harm tens of millions of people around the world in the coming months, the three officials most directly responsible for feeding the world’s hungriest people warned in a joint statement today. […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 29, 2012 (ENS) – “More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over one billion tons of food that nobody eats,” Torgny Holmgren, head of the Stockholm International Water Institute, said Monday at the opening of World Water Week. […]
CHICAGO, Illinois, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – A jet fuel pipeline that ruptured Monday near Chicago has forced closure of Route 83 and part of the Calumet Sag Channel until […]
ZOMBA, Malawi, August 24, 2012 (ENS) – Malawi’s Lake Chilwa could dry up completely in 2013 or 2014, scientists warn. The prediction has created fears of hunger and economic ruin among the more than one million people in fishing and farming communities around the lake. […]
BRASILIA, Brazil, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – A Brazilian Federal Court ruled today that environmental permits for more than 120 proposed hydropower plants in the Upper Paraguay River Basin cannot be issued without first doing environmental impact assessments. […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 15, 2012 (ENS) – The Chinese government should establish a “green taxation system” to attain its target of reducing pollution and promoting sustainable economic growth, the Asian Development Bank said today in a new report. […]
STATELINE, Nevada, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – Clarity in Lake Tahoe has stabilized after the years of cloudiness that threatened the lake’s attractiveness to millions of visitors from around the world, politicians and business people heard Monday at the annual Lake Tahoe Summit, but new threats abound. […]
STATESBORO, Georgia, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – A county judge has handed the nonprofit conservation group Ogeechee Riverkeeper a victory in its efforts to stop a Chicago-based textile manufacturer from discharging pollutants into the Ogeechee River. […]
By Juan Pablo García Medina GUADALAJARA, Jalisco, Mexico, May 9, 2012 (ENS) – For over 500 years, the Wixaritari Indians of Mexico have suffered from poverty, malnutrition and racism […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio, May 8, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department and Ohio Attorney General have reached a proposed settlement of claims for injuries to natural resources caused by […]
LARAMIE, Wyoming, January 26, 2010 (ENS) – Wyoming’s water resources are vulnerable to climate change because Wyoming is a dry state, a headwaters state, and a state that relies […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2010 (ENS) – There has been a commercial “fishery failure” for Alaska’s Yukon River Chinook salmon due to low salmon returns, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2010 (ENS) – The U.S. EPA is planning to impose limits on phosphorus and nitrogen in Florida waters that will be the first federal standards […]
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