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 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/
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/
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 Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, February 13, 2017 (ENS) – Tens of thousands of residents near Lake Oroville in Butte County California have been ordered to evacuate their homes as the auxiliary emergency spillway at Lake Oroville Dam is in danger of failing. Failure of the auxiliary spillway may cause widespread, severe […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 13, 2017 (ENS) – In 2016, for the second year in a row, the majority of new generating capacity installed in the United States came from renewable energy sources, according to the latest issue of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update.” Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WELLINGTON, New Zealand, February 12, 2017 (ENS) – Hundreds of pilot whales stranded and died on the northern tip of New Zealand’s South Island this weekend, others in that group were refloated, but then hundreds more beached themselves Saturday. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/12/300-pilot-whales-die-in-new-zealand-mass-stranding/
Published by the Environmental News Service SANTIAGO, Chile, February 6, 2017 (ENS) – In Chile’s worst fire disaster in 50 years, the South American country has lost over half a million hectares to more than 100 wildfires that first flared up in mid-January. The blazes have frustrated firefighters’ efforts to control them, with new hot […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2017 (ENS) – The health hazards of perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, are well known to scientists, yet some fast food chains still use food wrappers, bags and boxes coated with these grease-resistant compounds, according to nationwide tests reported in a new peer-reviewed study. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, February 4, 2017 (ENS) – Tree Canada, a national tree planting charity, will invest more than C$1 million to restore forests destroyed by the Fort McMurray wildfires last year. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/04/reforesting-canadas-oil-sands-city/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2017 (ENS) – The Senate voted Thursday to send President Donald Trump a measure to kill the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule, a coal mining regulation finalized in December, just weeks before the end of the Obama administration. The House passed the measure earlier in […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 2, 2017 (ENS) – For two days Senate Democrats have boycotted a planned committee vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/02/senate-environment-committee-waives-rules-for-pruitt/
Published by the Environmental News Service GLAND, Switzerland, February 2, 2017 (ENS) – Ten new Wetlands of International Importance in five countries have been designated to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2017, observed every year on February 2. “Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction” is this year’s theme. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/02/02/wetlands-protected-worldwide-to-reduce-disaster-risks/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, February 1, 2017 (ENS) – Neil McGill Gorsuch, a judge who now sits on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado, is President Trump’s nominee for the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. If confirmed, the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service MIAMI, Florida, Febuary 1, 2017 (ENS) – A Miami-based automotive export company has received the first approval from the U.S. government to ship American-made electric cars to Cuba. Putting aside politics in favor of business, the move follows former President Barack Obama’s policy of restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba. […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa, February 1, 2017 (ENS) – Safari Club International, America’s most powerful hunting lobby group, this week will auction the lives of 280 South African animals to raise funds to lobby the Trump administration against measures protecting threatened species, such as the Big Five: elephant, rhino, […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2017 (ENS) – Framing it as a “prudent and financially responsible” measure, President Donald Trump today ordered federal agencies to repeal two existing regulations for every new regulation issued. Environmentalists warned the order will dismantle protections. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/30/trumps-regulatory-order-jeopardizes-environment/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2017 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Friday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to “prioritize and accelerate” the risk evaluation for 1,4-dioxane, a potential carcinogen found in 71 percent of Long Island water supply systems. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service PASADENA, California, January 30, 2017 (ENS) – “Dramatic, widespread shoreline loss” is what government scientists call the pattern revealed in new NASA/U.S. Geological Survey annual maps of the Louisiana marshlands where the coast was heavily coated with oil during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf […]