Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 29, 2017 (ENS) – Nuclear powers, including the United States, Britain and France are among nearly 40 countries boycotting the first UN conference in more than 20 years on a global nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations this week. Read the full […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt signed an order denying a petition that sought to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide crucial to U.S. agriculture. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-denies-petition-ban-widely-used-pesticide-0
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2017 (ENS) – Most of President Barack Obama’s actions taken to forestall climate change were wiped out today as President Donald Trump revoked, revised, rescinded or withdrew limits on carbon emissions from power plants and opened federal lands to coal mining. Read the full article […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Flanked by coal miners at the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump signed an order directing the agency to start the process of rewriting the Clean Power Plan. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/climate/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Presidents have lots of power, but citizen activists – and our nation’s laws – are even stronger. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/285607472/0/edf/blogs/feed~Trump-wants-to-end-the-Clean-Power-Plan-%E2%80%93-but-we-can-push-back
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2017 (ENS) – To prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration, two nonprofit organizations and a conservation biologist have sent Freedom of Information Act requests for the data sets to eight federal agencies. Read the full […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, at the Environmental Protection Agency surrounded by American energy workers, public employees and members of Congress, President Donald Trump signed the Energy Independence Executive Order to protect thousands of jobs and strengthen energy security, while als Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-review-clean-power-plan-under-president-trumps-executive-order
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Hoy, en la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/la-epa-revisa-el-plan-de-energia-limpia-conforme-la-orden-ejecutiva-del-presidente
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Energy economists say the executive order is likely to fall far short on the president’s goals of increasing the nation’s “energy independence” and restoring lost coal mining jobs. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/climate/planned-rollback-of-climate-rules-unlikely-to-achieve-all-trumps-goals.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The expeditions of William Beebe and his coed Department of Tropical Research are remembered at an upcoming show at The Drawing Center in New York. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/william-beebe-department-of-tropical-research-illustrations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment If a fusion experiment in France succeeds, it could shape the power plants of the future and contribute greatly to reducing planet-warming emissions. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/fusion-power-plant-iter-france.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A naturalist in England found the early-blooming plant had moved up its schedule by nearly two months — a foreboding sign of a warming climate. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/deadnettle-spring-global-warming-flowers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – During an interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt previewed the President’s upcoming executive order on the American Energy Independence. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-previews-president-trumps-executive-order-energy-independence
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW DELHI, India, March 24, 2017 (ENS) – India’s automobile industry is geared up to begin production of vehicles compliant with Bharat Stage IV (BS-IV) emission norms across the country from April 1, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/24/india-moves-to-stricter-vehicle-emissions-norms/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 24, 2017 (ENS) – The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs has issued a Presidential permit to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, authorizing the Canadian company to construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border for the importation of crude oil from Canada’s tar […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Platte River in Nebraska is an important layover for hundreds of thousands of the birds as they head toward their summer homes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/sandhill-cranes-nebraska-platte-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service LIHUE, Kauai, Hawaii, March 23, 2017 (ENS) – Hawaii’s first utility-scale solar farm that stores solar energy in giant battery packs and delivers it to homes after sunset has opened on the island of Kauai. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/23/tesla-powers-kauai-with-solar-energy-after-sunset/
Published by the Environmental News Service TOULOUSE, France, March 23, 2017 (ENS) – NanoCars will compete for the first time ever during an international molecule-car race to be held on April 28-29 in Toulouse. The vehicles, which consist of just a few hundred atoms, will be powered by minute electrical pulses during the 36 hour-long […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Communing with some of the biggest trees on Earth. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/magazine/sequoias-in-the-land-of-giants.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt welcomed Idaho Governor Butch Otter to a meeting at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., today. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-pruitt-hosts-governor-otter-epa