Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, January 23, 2017 (ENS) – Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods giant Unilever has committed to ensuring that all of its plastic packaging is fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025, and the company called on the entire fast-moving consumer goods industry to accelerate progress towards the circular economy. […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2017 (ENS) – President Donald Trump today reopened negotiations for construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, reversing the actions of President Barack Obama, and frustrating environmentalists and Native Americans who had fought both pipelines to a standstill. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2017 (ENS) – In one of the last actions of the Obama administration’s Justice Department, the United States and the Navajo Nation entered into a settlement agreement with two affiliated subsidiaries of Freeport-McMoRan, Inc, for the cleanup of 94 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo land. […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2017 (ENS) – On the last full day of the Obama administration, January 19, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued an order phasing out the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on national wildlife refuges by the year 2022. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2017 (ENS) – More than one million people took part in women’s marches in Washington, DC, New York and dozens of other cities across the country Saturday on President Donald Trump’s first full day in office. Millions more marched in cities across the USA and […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Fund joins a coalition of 28 international investors controlling over $3 trillion in assets Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27092&ArticleID=36341&l=en
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Will the Trump administration’s willingness to flout evidence affect this critical environmental data, too? Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/262161332/0/edf/blogs/feed~Whats-at-stake-when-facts-are-ignored-Here-are-examples
Published by the Environmental News Service TEHRAN, Iran, January 23, 2017 (ENS) – Iran’s first electric car and two electric motorbikes manufactured by Iranian companies were unveiled in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani last week at the presidential complex in Tehran. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/23/irans-president-test-drives-irans-first-electric-car/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The environmental advocate warned about excessive use of pesticides. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/rachel-carson-ddt-malaria-retro-report.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An installation of 300 statues off a Spanish island forms an artificial reef and addresses issues like Europe’s migration crisis, and the destruction of ocean reefs. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/world/europe/undersea-museum-keeps-fish-feeding-and-its-social-commentary-biting.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2017 (ENS) – Donald Trump’s first speech as president, his inaugural address, delivered today on the steps of the Capitol after he took the Oath of Office, made no mention of the environment. But President Trump has already started attacking the environment, particularly the climate. […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund He’s taken large contributions from energy interests for his campaigns and raised millions more for partisan political groups. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/260924126/0/edf/blogs/feed~Analysis-Scott-Pruitts-misleading-testimony-from-this-weeks-EPA-confirmation-hearing
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Scott Pruitt spent his hearing running from his record of doing industry’s bidding when it comes to public health and environmental protection – because he knows the public won’t support it. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/260815944/0/edf/blogs/feed~Pruitts-actions-undermine-his-testimony-as-he-runs-from-his-own-record
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 19, 2017 (ENS) – Contradicting President Donald Trump, his choices to head the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency each told members of Congress during their confirmation hearings this week that climate change is not a hoax, as Trump has alleged. Read […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27092&ArticleID=36340&l=en
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund California is wrestling with the same energy issues the rest of us will face…and it’s finding solutions. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/260449006/0/edf/blogs/feed~The-way-to-clean-energyforall-in-a-Trump-Administration-in-California-and-beyond
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund California is wrestling with the same energy issues the rest of us will face…and it’s finding solutions. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/260449006/0/edf/blogs/feed~The-way-to-cleanenergyforall-in-a-Trump-administration-in-California-and-beyond
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/magellan-pipeline-settles-alleged-clean-water-act-violations-related-spills-texas
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2017 (ENS) – Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by two U.S. government agencies – the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. Read the full article […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Mr. Baldenegro, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, defended the western Sierra Madre’s old-growth forests against powerful local strongmen. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/world/americas/mexico-environmental-activist-shot-sierra-madre.html?partner=rss&emc=rss