Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 29, 2017 (ENS) – The ride-sharing company Lyft announced Sunday that it will donate $1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and banning Syrian refugees indefinitely. Read […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2017 (ENS) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government scientists face Trump administration review on a “case by case basis” before they can publish or present their scientific findings, according to the head of communications for the Trump administration’s EPA transition team. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic, January 25, 2017 (ENS) – Latin America and the Caribbean could be the first developing region to completely eradicate hunger if its governments further strengthen their implementation of a new food security plan, the United Nations’ top food and agriculture official said Wednesday. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 25, 2017 (ENS) – Three big California energy companies have filed multi-million dollar plans with the California Public Utilities Commission to develop the electric vehicle infrastructure needed to help the state meet its ambitious climate and clean air goals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/25/california-utilities-seek-1-billion-for-ev-charging/
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 25, 2017 (ENS) – The amount of marine litter polluting European waters would be halved by 2030 under new waste management proposals agreed Tuesday by the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, usually called the ENVI Committee. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2017 (ENS) – The Trump administration has imposed new restrictions on social media use and communication with press and legislators at the U.S. EPA and the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, raising fears of a president determined to tamp […]
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 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 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 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 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 Environmental News Service DAVOS, Switzerland, January 17, 2017 (ENS) – With climate skeptic President-elect Donald Trump approaching the White House, much of the world is turning to China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, for leadership on climate change. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/18/world-looks-to-china-for-climate-leadership/
Published by the Environmental News Service LEEDS, UK, January 17, 2017 (ENS) – An extensive peatland in the Congo Basin has been mapped for the first time, showing it to be the largest such tropical peatland in the world, covering an area larger than England. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/17/congo-holds-worlds-largest-tropical-peatland/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 16, 2017 (ENS) – President Barack Obama Friday expanded the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southwestern Oregon and Northern California, and added six new units to the California Coastal National Monument to protect biodiversity, cultural resources and vital wildlife habitat. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/15/obama-expands-national-monuments-in-oregon-california/
Published by the Environmental News Service PALMETTO, Florida, January 15, 2017 (ENS) – “The Greatest Show on Earth,” the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® circus, is closing. The famous circus will hold its final performances in May of this year says its owner, Feld Entertainment. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/15/ringling-bros-circus-closing-the-big-tent/
Published by the Environmental News Service SYDNEY, Australia, January 15, 2017 (ENS) – Hours after Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull smiled for a photo with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Sydney on Saturday, Japanese whalers were caught killing whales in the icy waters of the Australian Whale Sanctuary off Antarctica. Read the full article […]