WASHINGTON, DC, December 14, 2012 (ENS) – Under a court order, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM2.5), including soot. […]
SEATTLE, Washington, December 13, 2012 (ENS) – Citizens concerned about coal’s contribution to global warming and the potential impact to the Puget Sound ecosystem spoke out Thursday against a […]
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 the federal government to designate the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a Superfund site. […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, December 13, 2012 (ENS) – Calling it a vital national security issue, Mayor Greg Ballard has signed an Executive Order making Indianapolis the first U.S. city to require the purchase of either electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles for the city’s non-police fleet. […]
ALBANY, New York, December 12, 2012 (ENS) – Seven states Tuesday notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of their intent to sue the agency for violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address emissions of the greenhouse gas methane by the oil and natural gas industry. […]
NEVADA, Iowa, December 11, 2012 – Science and engineering company DuPont has started construction of a large cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa, with completion expected in mid-2014. […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, December 11, 2012 (ENS) – Royal Malaysian Customs today announced their largest ivory seizure ever, a find of 1,500 pieces of elephant tusks hidden in wooden crates built to look like stacks of sawn timber. […]
NACOGDOCHES, Texas, December 11, 2012 (ENS) – Texas landowner Michael Bishop, 64, an analytical chemist and former U.S. Marine, has been granted a temporary restraining order that halts construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline across his land while a judge considers Bishop’s charges of fraud against the company. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – Bolivia will improve municipal solid waste management services such as collection, transportation, and disposal, with a $20 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, the bank announced today. […]
By Alfonso Stefanini, Environmental Consultant RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – As we approach the date for the Mayan doomsday prophecy on December 21, 2012, and […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – President Barack Obama has asked Congress to appropriate $60 billion to help in the rebuilding of the states and cities from North Carolina to Maine devastated by superstorm Sandy in late October. […]
DOHA, Qatar, December 8, 2012 (ENS) – At the UN’s annual climate change conference just concluded in Doha, 194 countries agreed to an extension of the Kyoto Protocol through 2020. But the second phase still omits the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters – China and the United States. […]
BILLINGS, Montana, December 7, 2012 (ENS) – Brazil has notified international animal health regulators of its first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, or mad cow disease. The cow died two years ago, but the test confirming the deadly brain disease was not done until 18 months later, and the results not made public until Thursday. […]
TOKYO, Japan, December 7, 2012 (ENS) – Northeastern Japan was jolted by a powerful earthquake at 5:18 pm Friday, local time in the same area that was hit by a much stronger quake and tsunami on March 11 last year. […]
MANILA, Philippines, December 6, 2012 (ENS) – A furious typhoon with intense rain has claimed 325 lives in the Philippines and injured more than 400 other people. Hundreds more are missing and nearly 200,000 are homeless tonight. […]
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 helm of his own ship after months on the run. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – A Superfund site contaminated by decades of fireworks manufacturing will be cleaned under two settlements reached today by the U.S. government with companies and local governments. […]
LAUNCESTON, Tasmania, Australia, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – Hydro Tasmania will pull its personnel out of the Malaysian state of Sarawak by the end of 2013, the company’s chief executive promised an indigenous delegation Monday. […]
CHICAGO, Illinois, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – A team led by Argonne National Laboratory will receive up to $120 million to establish a research Hub for advanced batteries to power electric and hybrid cars and develop energy storage technologies for the electricity grid. […]
ESPOO, Finland, December 5, 2012 (ENS) – A new technology developed in Finland is enabling a shift of the entire plastic packaging industry toward the use of bio-based products and away from dependence on plastics made from petroleum. […]
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