SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 30, 2013 (ENS) – The United States has named the San Francisco Bay and Estuary as its 35th Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention, effective on World Wetlands Day, February 2. […]
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, January 30, 2013 – A Dutch court ruled today that Shell is responsible for not preventing the pollution of farmlands at Ikot Ada Udo in Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State and ordered the company to pay compensation for the damage. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 29, 2013 (ENS) – One suspected poacher from Tana River County was shot dead on a private ranch Sunday after a fierce gun battle with Kenya Wildlife Service rangers. […]
LIVERMORE, California, January 29, 2013 (ENS) – Environmental, legal and nuclear experts from California and New Mexico are holding a community forum Wednesday to reveal the “potentially illegal” new federal government plan to ship plutonium bomb cores across three western states. […]
LONDON, UK, January 29, 2013 (ENS) – Giant bees appeared at Prime Minister David Cameron’s office at #10 Downing Street this morning to sting the government into delivering a Bee Action Plan, as part of Friends of the Earth’s Bee Cause campaign. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 29, 2013 (ENS) – Crude oil spilling from a barge that hit the Vicksburg Railroad bridge across the lower Mississippi River has closed 16 miles of the river to navigation. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 28, 2013 (ENS) – The “Type 2” plug developed by the German company Mennekes will be the common standard for charging electrified vehicles across the European Union, the European Commission has announced. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 27, 2013 (ENS) – A Louisiana woman admitted creating false identification documents and impersonating a federal hazwaste official with intent to defraud Southeast Asian fishermen thrown out of work by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 26, 2013 (ENS) – A worldwide ban on the manufacture, export and import of batteries and other products that contain mercury will be in place by 2020 under the provisions of the world’s first treaty agreed by 147 governments at a United Nations forum in Geneva.
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SACRAMENTO, California, January 25, 2013 (ENS) – Procter & Gamble, makers of Tide and Tide Free & Gentle detergents, has agreed in a California court to reduce the levels of the chemical 1,4 dioxane in its laundry products. […]
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 without a spill, but the incident has prompted calls for better protection of the pristine area. […]
DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 (ENS) – “Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled,” Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund told a World Economic Forum audience Wednesday. […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, January 24, 2013 (ENS) – Canadian environmental groups today warned that a new proposal by Kinder Morgan pipeline company would “exponentially” raise the risk of a major oil spill affecting Vancouver and Victoria. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2013 (ENS) – Climate change is getting renewed attention in Congress. Representative Henry Waxman of California and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island today announced the formation of a Task Force on Climate Change that will be active in both the House and the Senate. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2013 (ENS) – Pacific bluefin tuna numbers have dropped 96.4 percent from unfished levels due to decades of overfishing, finds a new stock assessment, prompting conservationists to call for a moratorium on the fishery. […]
SANTA MONICA, California, January 23, 2013 (ENS) – A second corporation has joined the race to mine the asteroids that pass near the Earth for resources such as the platinum group metals. There are over 1,500 asteroids that can be reached as easily as the Moon, the would-be miners say. […]
LINCOLN, Nebraska, January 22, 2013 (ENS) – Today Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman approved a new route through the state for TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which avoids the environmentally-sensitive Sand Hills region. […]
NEW YORK, New York, January 22, 2013 (ENS) – Expansion of its Bus Rapid Transit system, cycling and walking infrastructure and parking program has earned Mexico City the 2013 Sustainable Transport Award from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 21, 2013 (ENS) – In an inaugural address founded on the U.S. Constitution, President Barack Obama today indicated that in his second term he will act to forestall climate change by developing sustainable energy sources. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 16, 2013 (ENS) – Nuclear watchdog groups warn the the nuclear industry is rushing regulators tasked with a new court-ordered environmental impact statement for the spent nuclear fuel piling up at reactor sites across the country. […]
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