Environment News Service News Index
February 2011
- Christchurch Death Toll Hits 154, New Zealand to Pause in Memory
- Coca-Cola India Will Face Tribunal on Eco-Damage Claims
- British Columbia Premier-designate Clark Embroiled in Mine Conflict
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Bison Protection Not Warranted
- Recovery Act Funds Support Geothermal Project Loan Guarantee
- Seed Vault Collection Grows As Do Threats to Crop Diversity
- Georgian Environment Ministry to Lose Powers
- Christchurch Quake Death Toll Now 113, More Buildings May Fall in Aftershocks
- Warming, Polluted Oceans Imperil 75 Percent of All Coral Reefs
- World’s First Zero Emissions Race Crosses the Finish Line
- EPA’s New Boiler Emissions Standards Halve Implementation Costs
- New York AG: Scare Tactics to Keep Paddlers Out of State Waters Illegal
- Letter to Japanese Government Opposes Loan for Texas Nuclear Reactors
- Forest NGOs in Guatemala, Nepal Share UNEP Sasakawa Prize
- Ducks Unlimited Among 17 Newly Accredited Land Trusts
- Cell Phone Radiation Affects Normal Functioning of the Human Brain
- Christchurch Quake Kills 75, Rescuers Race to Reach Trapped Office Workers
- Clean, Green Philippines Goal Marks 25th People Power Anniversary
- UPS Replaces Diesel With Cleaner LNG Tractor Trucks
- Montanans Protest Republican Assault On Workers, Environment
- UNEP: $1.3 Trillion a Year Would Turn World Economy Green
- Militants Free All WWF-India Volunteers
- U.S. House Slashes Funding for Public Health, Clean Air, Clean Water
- Skyrocketing Food Prices Threaten Global Security
- Johannesburg Taxis Scrapped in Favor of Bus Rapid Transit
- UNEP Year Book: Phosphorus and Plastic Pollute World’s Oceans
- Greenpeacers Hang ‘Quit Coal’ Banner from Connecticut Power Plant
- Democrats Rank High, Republicans, Low on Conservation Voters 2010 Scorecard
- States Sue U.S. Nuclear Regulators Over 60-Year Waste Storage
- Ecuadorean Groups Appeal to Increase $8.6 Billion Chevron Fine
- Rising Seas Forecast to Flood U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100
- Obama: ‘Outdoors More Precious Than Ever’
- INSIGHT: The Whalers Have Been Shut Down!
- European Union Limits Carbon Emissions from New Vans
- Powdered Rhino Horn as Pricey as Street Cocaine
- Two Pesticides Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
- Montana Governor Bars Brucellosis-Infected Yellowstone Bison
- Clean Air Act Violations at Ohio Plant Cost Cemex $3.4 Million
- Canada Requires Two Percent Renewable Diesel Fuel
- Obama Administration Proposes ‘Tough Choices’ EPA Budget for 2012
- Ecuador Court Fines Chevron $8.6 Billion for Rainforest Pollution
- Protesters End Mountaintop Removal Sit-in at Kentucky Governor’s Office
- Fuel Troubles in Iran
- U.S. Army Displays Hybrid Combat Vehicles at Chicago Auto Show
- Mountaintop Removal Protestors Occupy Kentucky Governor’s Office
- UN General Assembly: Invest in Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
- Majority of Upton’s Constituents Oppose His Bill to Disempower EPA
- INSIGHTS: Obama’s ‘Clean Energy’ Pump Fake
- U.S. House Battles Over U.S. EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations
- Global Map Tracks Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface
- European Parliament Hosts Low Carbon Prosperity Summitn
- Obama Administration Plans $53 Billion High-Speed Rail Investment
- Commissioners Resign, 85 Employees Fired at New Jersey Sewerage Commission
- Charging Cost of Plug-in Hybrids Highest in Californian
- Oil and Gas Industry Drops Lawsuit Over Colorado Environmental Protections
- Pacific Walrus Only a Candidate for Endangered Species Protection
- Asian Bank Warns of Mass Climate Change Migrations
- Sea Lice From Salmon Farms Infect Fraser River Sockeye
- Super Bowl Energy Use Offset With Texas Wind Power
- Virginia State Water Control Board Loses Authority Over Coal Mines
- Militants Kidnap WWF-India Tiger Census Volunteers
- Three East African Cities Funded for Sustainable Transport
- Feds Speed Offshore Wind with National Plan, $50 Million for R&D
- Purdue University Choses Wind and Natural Gas Over Coal
- Rwanda Pledges Nationwide Forest Landscape Restoration
- Canada Licenses Great Lakes Shipment of Radioactive Generators
- Shell Abandons Plans for Summer 2011 Drilling Off Alaska Coast
- Toxic Diesel Fuel Used Without Permits in Fracking Operations
- Cyclone Yasi Slams Coastal Queensland
- GM Withdraws $14 Billion Loan Application for Advanced Vehicle Development
- Experts See ‘Big Barriers’ to Obama’s One-Million EV Target
- Guangzhou, China Earns 2011 Sustainable Transport Award
- Fierce Blizzard Shuts Down U.S. Midwest
- International Year of Forests Dawns With Hope for Conservation
- First Floods, Now a Giant Cyclone Roars Toward Australia
