Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Resorts in places like the Maldives, Bali and Malaysia are working to rebuild damaged coral reefs, and guests can help. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/travel/restoring-coral-reefs-ocean-resort-priority.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The Department of Homeland Security has sweeping power to push through the border wall, but legal challenges could be strong. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/273816836/0/edf/blogs/feed~These-environmental-and-legal-hurdles-could-take-down-Trumps-wall
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, February 22, 2017 (ENS) – Come October 23, London Mayor Sadiq Khan will impose a £10 Toxicity-Charge on vehicles in central London that do not meet Euro 4 standards, typically those diesel and petrol vehicles registered before 2006. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/22/london-mayor-slaps-toxicity-charge-on-polluting-cars/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Experts say that the exploitation of wetlands in southern Mexico City could lead to the destruction of the area’s bucolic canals within a few years. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/world/americas/mexico-city-canals-xochimilco-chinampas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service AMMAN, Jordan, February 20, 2017 (ENS) – The illegal trade and the manufacture and use of toxic pesticides in Israeli illegal settlements, result in human rights violations and contribute to the food insecurity in the Occupied West Bank, an international fact-finding mission concludes. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/21/israeli-illegal-pesticides-poison-occupied-west-bank/
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will address employees in the Green Room at EPA Headquarters at noon, today,Tuesday, February 21, 2017. Administrator Pruitt’s remarks will be open to the press. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/today-epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-deliver-remarks-epa-employees-0
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON–Today, U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took to the stage greeted by the applause of career EPA employees in the agency’s historic Rachel Carson Green Room. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-scott-pruitt-addresses-epa-staff-0
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A retired scientist became a hero to some climate-change deniers after he criticized his former boss at NOAA over data handling. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/business/energy-environment/climate-change-dispute-john-bates.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service OROVILLE, California, February 19, 2017 (ENS) – The emergency at California’s Oroville Dam appears to be over for the moment, although during the next few days severe weather is expected to hit the area at the western edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains, as hundreds of thousands of residents […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CAMBRIDGE, UK, February 19, 2016 (ENS) – The appearance of a large crack and growing in the ice shelf near the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI research station has prompted officials to close the base for the first time. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/19/antarctic-ice-crack-closes-british-research-station/
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Positive comments keep rolling in for new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Read the latest:Jay Vroom, President and CEO, CropLife America Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/morewhat-they-are-saying-about-administrator-pruitt-0
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 17, 2017 (ENS) – Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt today won Senate confirmation to head the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, the federal agency he has sued multiple times during the Obama administration in attempts to limit its control of industry. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/17/senate-confirms-epa-foe-pruitt-as-epa-administrator/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Britain’s efforts to aid the environment have inadvertently led to a spike in an even more insidious form of air pollution than the deadly smog of 1952. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/world/europe/london-smog-air-pollution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund What we’ve accomplished together since Pruitt’s nomination was first raised gives me hope for the days ahead. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/272100148/0/edf/blogs/feed~Pruitts-confirmation-was-just-one-battle-Heres-why-well-win-the-war
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON–Today, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was confirmed and sworn in as the 14th administrator of the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/scott-pruitt-confirmed-and-sworn-epa-administrator
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — U.S. EPA Administrator will address employees in the Green Room at EPA Headquarters at Noon on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. Administrator Pruitt’s remarks will be open to the press. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-deliver-remarks-epa-employees
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON–American leaders and job creators all across the country today cheered as Scott Pruitt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the new EPA Administrator. Here is some of what they are saying: Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/job-creators-american-energy-producers-farmers-and-elected-officials-cheer-scott
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are calling their senators to try to defeat Scott Pruitt’s confirmation to run the agency. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An ecological cornerstone is vanishing rapidly from the oceans, and scientists fear the consequences for climate change, fisheries and disease. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/science/seagrass-coral-reefs-pathogens-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund How the EPA nominee is stonewalling efforts by the American public and the Senate to get more information on his conduct. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/270916638/0/edf/blogs/feed~What-is-Scott-Pruitt-hiding-Thousands-of-withheld-emails-yet-another-reason-his-EPA-nomination-should-be-stopped