Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2016 (ENS) – After a four-year review of its environmental and social safeguards, the World Bank has released updated safeguards in the newly drafted document “Environmental and Social Framework.” But nongovernmental organizations say the draft safeguards have been weakened, not strengthened. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Large food companies are pushing their supply chains to reduce fertilizer runoff. If scaled up, this model could prevent harmful algae blooms. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/170207680/0/edf/blogs/feed~Solutions-for-the-toxic-algae-crisis-in-Florida-and-beyond
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2016 (ENS) – The Obama Administration is unlocking up to US$4.5 billion in loan guarantees and inviting applications to support the commercial-scale deployment of innovative electric vehicle charging facilities, the White House announced on Friday. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/27/obama-states-auto-power-sectors-fund-ev-charging/
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON–The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-issues-final-rule-protect-public-exposure-formaldehyde
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/cement-manufacturer-cemex-reduce-harmful-air-pollution-five-plants-under-settlement-epa
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Utility regulators are upending the financial dynamics of residential solar as they try to meet their obligations to customers who don’t have roof panels. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/business/energy-environment/why-home-solar-panels-no-longer-pay-in-some-states.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, July 26, 2016 (ENS) – The solar-powered electric plane Solar Impulse 2 made history just after midnight today by completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth powered only by energy from the Sun. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/26/worlds-first-solar-plane-circles-the-earth/
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-niehs-award-28-million-fund-childrens-centers-five-universities-across-united-1
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27079&ArticleID=36238&l=en
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme “While they have achieved another milestone in flight, their circumnavigation is even more momentous for what it demonstrates about clean technology.” Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27079&ArticleID=36237&l=en
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The airline industry opposes the administration’s plan to curb airplane emissions, saying it could endanger passengers and hurt American companies. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/us/politics/epa-airplane-pollution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The government said it planned to eliminate the possums, rats and weasels that threaten the survival of native species. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/australia/new-zealand-animal-predators.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The pallid sturgeon is threatened because it can no longer travel far enough on the Missouri River to find a healthy place for its eggs to develop. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/science/pallid-sturgeon-montana-yellowstone-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (WASHINGTON) – The U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-determines-aircraft-emissions-contribute-climate-change-endangering-public-health
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2016 (ENS) – The Mingo Logan Coal Company has lost another round in the long legal battle to obtain a U.S. government permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, West Virginia, high in the Appalachian Mountains. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/24/court-upholds-u-s-epa-veto-of-mountaintop-removal-mine/
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Governments set the stage for a possible agreement to reduce potent greenhouse gases under the Montreal Protocol. An amendment on reducing HFCs would be a significant step towards meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27079&ArticleID=36236&l=en
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON-Today, countries across the world took critical steps toward their goal under the Dubai Pathway to Amend the Montreal Protocol in 2016 to reduce production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/statement-montreal-protocol-negotiations-vienna-austria
Published by the Environmental News Service MOSCOW, Russia, July 22, 2016 (ENS) – Russian chemist Dr. Valentin Parmon has won the 2016 Global Energy Prize for his work with new generation catalysts for the production of diesel and other motor fuels, fuel production from plant materials, and for the transformation of solar energy into chemical […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In California, state subsidies for hydrogen filling stations are encouraging clean-energy advocates to try fuel-cell vehicles. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/automobiles/water-out-the-tailpipe-a-new-class-of-electric-car-gains-traction.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme With such a powerful tool at our disposal, the choice before us is alarmingly simple: we can choose to save our children or not. Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27080&ArticleID=36235&l=en