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Conservation Groups Welcome EPA Decision to Regulate Some Emissions from US-Flagged Ocean-Going Ships

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Urge EPA to move forward quickly on regulations for GHGs and PM, and to ensure that standards also protect the American Arctic
July 2, 2009
 

 

Washington, DC – Environmental groups today welcomed an EPA announcement of a coordinated strategy to slash harmful emissions from ocean-going ships powered by the largest marine diesel engines (called Category 3 engines).
 
EPA is proposing [...]

How Many Presidents Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?

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Obama announces new efficiency standards that save energy and money
June 30, 2009
 
 
 

 

Washington, DC – How many Presidents of the United States does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one.  
New lighting standards announced Monday by President Obama will save enough energy annually to power all U.S. homes for almost a year, while saving consumers $1 billion [...]

UNESCO to Investigate Threats to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park on U.S.-Canadian Border

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Proposed coal mine in BC’s Flathead River Valley triggers World Heritage investigation
June 26, 2009
 
 
 

Flathead River

 

Seville, Spain – The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations voted today to promptly send a mission to Canada to investigate threats to Glacier National Park (Montana) and Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta) posed by coal mining and gas drilling proposals in [...]

TVA Report Downplays Risk of Future Coal Ash Dam Failures

Casts Tennessee disaster as once-in-a-lifetime event
June 25, 2009
 
 
 

Aerial view of site of Kingston coal ash slurry spill - after the spill

Photo: TVA

Washington, DC – The Tennessee Valley Authority released a report today that purports to uncover the cause of the December 2008 coal ash disaster at its Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, TN.  

 
TVA paid the engineering firm [...]

Supreme Court Clears Way for Mining Company to Destroy Alaskan Lake

Decision bodes ill for other American lakes, invites Administrative or Congressional fix
June 22, 2009
 
 
 

Acid mine drainage caused by mining activity was found near the Kensington Mine and Lower Slate Lake in 2007. Click on image for link to Juneau Empire story.

Photo: U.S. Forest Service

Washington, DC – The Supreme Court ruled today that the Clean Water Act [...]

Groups to Feds: Communities Have Right to Know of Toxic Coal Ash Sites

Ask agencies to disclose 44 ‘high hazard’ sites
June 18, 2009
 
 
 

View of the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant fly ash spill, appx. 1 mile from the retention pond. This view is from just off Swan Pond Road. The pile of ash in the photo is 20-25 feet high, and stretches for two miles or so along this inlet.

Photo: Brian [...]

EPA Air Pollution Hearing Draws Advocates From Around CA

Affected communities cheer federal proposal to slash pollution from cement kilns
June 16, 2009
 
 
 

 

Los Angeles, CA – Public health and environmental advocates from across California are traveling to Los Angeles today to speak out at a public hearing on a new federal proposal to cut air pollution from cement kilns.
 
Advocates are cheering the new standards, which will cut [...]

U.S. EPA to Review Standards for Hazardous Waste Combustors

Failure to regulate has allowed release of tons of toxic pollution released annually
June 12, 2009
 
 
 

 

Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to a new review of a Bush-era rule that fails to provide adequate controls on highly toxic emissions released by facilities that burn hazardous waste.
 
Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, challenged the rule [...]

Feds Link Harm to Endangered Puget Sound Killer Whales to Destruction of Freshwater Salmon Habitat in California

Scientific finding should affect other salmon rivers
June 10, 2009
 
 
 

 

 

Seattle, WA  – Federal officials in California have acknowledged that destruction of salmon freshwater habitat on the Sacramento River illegally jeopardizes killer whales. The loss of salmon habitat has greatly reduced the supply of wild salmon, a favorite food of Puget Sound’s resident killer whales. These killer whales roam [...]

Wolverines to Get a Second Chance

Feds to reconsider Endangered Species Act protections
June 10, 2009
 
 
 

Wolverine

Photo by US Fish & Wildlife Service

Bozeman, MT  – Under a legal settlement signed today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reconsider whether to add the wolverine population in the lower-48 states to the list of species protected by the Endangered Species Act. The new listing determination [...]