Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2017 (ENS) – A wildlife refuge in Alaska will no longer be a real refuge for wildlife after the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service obey the latest directives from the Trump administration. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/21/trump-takes-aim-at-alaska-wildlife/
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund How will America’s natural gas industry operate 5-10-20 years down the line in an increasingly carbon-constrained world? The administration forgot to ask. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/404956754/0/edf/blogs/feed~Trumps-America-First-energy-plan-is-a-losing-proposition-for-industry-Heres-why
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, July 19, 2017 (ENS) – Eleven of the world’s largest banks, representing over US$7 trillion, are making a public commitment to promote climate risk transparency in financial markets. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/19/11-big-banks-offer-climate-risk-transparency/
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, July 18, 2017 (ENS) – The California Legislature handed Governor Jerry Brown a hard-fought victory on Monday when a bill to extend California’s cap-and-trade program for regulating heat-trapping greenhouse gases through the end of 2030 passed with a two-thirds supermajority vote in both houses. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The impact investing sector is expected to grow tenfold from $77 billion to about $700 billion by 2020. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/397627790/0/edf/blogs/feed~Environmental-impact-bonds-Next-big-thing-for-green-investments
Published by the Environmental News Service GREENBELT, Maryland, July 13, 2017 (ENS) – An iceberg weighing one trillion metric tonnes, one of the largest ever recorded, calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and July 12 in what NASA classifies as a sign of global climate change. Read […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund This could set in motion a string of chain reactions that further destabilize the ice shelf and surrounding glaciers, ultimately contributing to global sea level rise. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/394998356/0/edf/blogs/feed~Huge-Antarctic-iceberg-breaks-off-Heres-why-it-worries-scientists
Published by the Environmental News Service KRAKOW, Poland, July 11, 2017 (ENS) – The UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow added three natural sites and extended another, while removing a West African site from the Danger List and warning Poland to stop logging one of the first World Heritage sites ever named. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service MONTEREY, California, July 10, 2017 (ENS) – Stopping the flow of plastic pollution into oceans and lakes is the goal of a new partnership of 19 U.S. aquariums that say plastic waste is one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/11/u-s-aquariums-battle-plastic-waste-in-oceans-lakes/
Published by the Environmental News Service HAMBURG, Germany, July 10, 2017 (ENS) – President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate overshadowed this year’s G20 meeting in Hamburg, but did not change the determination of the other 19 members to limit damaging greenhouse gas emissions. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 7, 2017 (ENS) – Despite the absence of all nine nuclear-weapons states, countries meeting at a United Nations conference in New York Friday adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first multilateral legally-binding agreement for nuclear disarmament to have been negotiated […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Thousands of Americans at this federal agency go to work every day to keep people out of the doctor’s office. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/389299192/0/edf/blogs/feed~Worried-about-your-health-care-Then-dont-let-them-cut-EPAs-budget
Published by the Environmental News Service WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 6, 2017 (ENS) – New Zealand’s publicly owned forest parks and other conservation lands cannot be disposed of for private development interests, the country’s highest court ruled today. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/06/new-zealand-supreme-court-blocks-dam-in-forest-park/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 4, 2017 (ENS) – A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to suspend a rule restricting methane emissions from new oil and gas wells imposed during the Obama administration. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/07/04/court-epa-must-enforce-obama-methane-emissions-limit/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 3, 2017 (ENS) – U.S. national parks are experiencing some of the heaviest traffic of the year this Independence Day weekend, as millions of visitors stream into the country’s 59 parks to explore the 52.2 million acres they cover. But the President Donald Trump’s budget request […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund State and local leaders understand that by investing in clean energy and cutting emissions, we’re betting on the future. What could possibly be more American? Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/380407024/0/edf/blogs/feed~Cities-and-states-are-declaring-climate-independence-from-Trump
Published by the Environmental News Service CANBERRA, Australia, June 28, 2017 (ENS) – Australian federal prosecutors are pursuing legal action against the master and owner of a ship they claim is responsible for an major oil spill near the Great Barrier Reef in 2015. The worth of the reef has just been calculated at $56 […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Congressional voting patterns are remarkable considering that midterm elections are just a year away. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/378813996/0/edf/blogs/feed~Congress-almost-always-votes-with-Trump-as-midterms-loom-Bad-idea-polls-suggest
Published by the Environmental News Service HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe, June 26, 2017 (ENS) – More than 14 elephants, including a mother and her young calf, have been poisoned in and around Zimbabwe’s premier game reserve, Hwange National Park. Most of the poisoned elephants died near the south of the park. Some had their tusks […]
Published by the Environmental News Service ESPOO, Finland, June 24, 2017 (ENS) – A unique demonstration plant in Finland has proven that carbon dioxide (CO2) can be taken directly from the air and used to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/06/24/89564/