Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – Executives from three California state agencies Thursday caravaned from the state capital Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay Area and back to demonstrate how easy it is to drive and fuel hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in California. Read the full article […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) DALLAS, Texas – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt addressed Earth Day Texas on Friday, one of the largest gatherings for Earth Day in the United States. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-addresses-earth-day-texas-meets-environmental-groups
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Climate change is altering the environment in ways that increase the potential for viruses like Zika. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) CLIFTON HILL, Mo. – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt visited the Thomas Hill Energy Center in Clifton Hill, Mo. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-brings-back-basics-agenda-missouri-power-plant
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON—The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-winners-5th-annual-campus-rainworks-challenge
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The asteroid, 2014 JO25, which is approximately 2,000 feet end-to-end, was about 1.1 million miles away when it passed by on Wednesday morning. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/science/asteroid-earth-nasa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A new study found that a major ocean current is carrying plastic from the North Atlantic to the Greenland and Barents seas, and leaving it there. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/climate/arctic-plastics-pollution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The hypocrisy hasn’t been lost on community activists who fought for years to try protect East Chicago children from lead poisoning. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/294623858/0/edf/blogs/feed~Pruitt-visits-East-Chicagos-toxic-neighborhoods-%E2%80%93-while-slashing-funding-for-lead-control-cleanup
Published by the Environmental News Service TACOMA, Washington, April 18, 2017 (ENS) – The retreat of a massive Canadian glacier has triggered the first known case of “river piracy” in modern times – the capture of one river’s flow by another river. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/18/glacial-retreat-causes-1st-modern-case-of-river-piracy/
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – In a letter to petitioners today, EPA announced the agency’s intent to grant a reconsideration of the Oil and Gas New Source Performance Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Rule (NSPS Rule/Methane NSPS/Oil and Gas Rule/0000a), and stay a June 3 com Read the […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the availability of grant funding to modernize the nation’s diesel fleet by retrofitting or replacing vehicles with cleaner, more efficient diesel engines. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-grants-reduce-emissions-diesel-engines
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-visits-contaminated-site-east-chicago-pledges-coordinated-cleanup
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Trump is putting valuable home-grown jobs at risk by rolling back methane reduction policies. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/294285344/0/edf/blogs/feed~This-emerging-industry-is-creating-American-jobs-that-Trumps-policies-will-undermine
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Melting water from one of Canada’s largest glaciers used to flow north, to the Bering Sea. Last spring, it reversed course, a case of what scientists call “river piracy.” Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/science/climate-change-glacier-yukon-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund More toxic rivers and waterways, more mercury in the air, and more to come. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/293944878/0/edf/blogs/feed~Public-health-attacks-you-missed-during-the-Congressional-recess
Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, April 14, 2017 (ENS) – Clean, accessible drinking water is essential for life, and the United Nations says there is enough fresh water on the planet to supply this for everyone. But today, the World Health Organization warned that of the 7.5 billion people living on Earth, […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Just a year after weather patterns were altered worldwide, scientists see signs that more disruption may be brewing. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/climate/el-nino-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON –El administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/declaracion-del-administrador-de-la-epa-pruitt-acerca-de-las-directrices-de-omb-sobre
Published by the Environmental News Service ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 13, 2017 (ENS) – Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, a city of at least 3.4 million residents, is poised to build the first bus rapid transit line in east Africa. Construction is currently estimated to start later this year after a planning process that began in […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Industry influence in Trump’s White House could expand: Kathleen Hartnett White, a lobbyist for a group in large part funded by the energy industry, is being considered for the Director of the Council on Environmental Quality. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/291650503/0/edf/blogs/feed~Another-industryfunded-lobbyist-tapped-by-Trump