Green Jobs – Myth or Engine for Growth?
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Read More »Coal Ash Spills Could Happen at Dumps Across USA
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2008 (ENS) – Nearly 100 coal ash dumps across the United States pose similar or even greater potential dangers than the eastern Tennessee site that spilled a billion gallons of toxic sludge and contaminated water last month, finds a report released today by environmentalists. The study warns that the Bush administration [...]
Read More »Energy Dept. Fined for Failing to Clean Groundwater at Livermore Lab
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 7, 2009 (ENS) – Groundwater on and around the site of the U.S. Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is contaminated with volatile organic compounds and chromium from activities at the nuclear weapons research site, yet the DOE has halted cleanup, putting the drinking water supply of local communities at risk. [...]
Read More »Court Cancels EPA Clean Water Act Exemption for Pesticides
CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 7, 2009 (ENS) – Environmental groups today celebrated their victory as an appeals court vacated a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that has allowed pesticides to be applied to U.S. waters without a Clean Water Act permit. On November 27, 2007, the EPA issued the final rule, which states that pesticides applied [...]
Read More »Newborn Manatee Death Numbers Jump in 2008
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, January 7, 2009 (ENS) – A record number of 101 newborn manatees died in Florida waters last year, according to biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. The biologists say the high number of newborn deaths in 2008 may have resulted from a higher number of [...]
Read More »Ugandan Rebels Kill Rangers in Garamba National Park
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 7, 2009 (ENS) – The headquarters of Garamba National Park in the village of Nagero, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was attacked Friday by the Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Despite resistance by park rangers together with elements from the Congolese Armed Forces, numerous casualties and material damages occurred. A [...]
Read More »Our Coverage from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival: Blogs, Photo Galleries and Video Updates
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 15th and sundancechannel.com is the place to go for your daily Sundance Film Festival fix. Log on throughout the month of January to get the best coverage of all things from the Sundance Film Festival. We’ll be providing you the latest news, information, blogs, photos and [...]
Read More »Law Center Names 10 Most Endangered Places in the South
WASHINGTON, DC, January 6, 2009 (ENS) – The largest environmental advocacy organization working to protect the Southeast, Monday announced a list of 10 special places in the region that face immediate, potentially irreparable threats in 2009. The Southern Environmental Law Center said the 10 most endangered places were chosen from among hundreds that are impacted [...]
Read More »Larger, Older Deer Mice Spread Hantavirus
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, January 6, 2009 (ENS) – Deer mice that grow older and bigger due to better food, cover or nesting sites are the ones that are most likely to spread a deadly lung infection called hantavirus, according to new research from the University of Utah. Humans can become infected with hantavirus pulmonary [...]
Read More »Elvis Costello and The Police
Following Tony Bennett with the Police this week only serves to underline Spectacle’s range. Obviously, we hope this strikes you viewers as engagingly eclectic (or eclectically engaging) and not crazy, because these shows are all different. But then that’s been a big part of the fun of making this series. To be honest, it was [...]
Read More »Honolulu Must Spend Over $1 Billion on Wastewater Treatment
HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 6, 2009 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued final decisions to not renew the City and County of Honolulu’s variances exempting the Sand Island and Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment plants from full secondary treatment requirements. The decision forces the city to upgrade both plants to bring them into compliance with [...]
Read More »11 Eastern States Commit to Regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, January 6, 2009 (ENS) – Pennsylvania has signed a letter of agreement with 10 other eastern states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels and other sources by developing a regional low carbon fuel standard. Vehicles using low carbon transport fuels include cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells; electric cars such as [...]
Read More »Bush Conserves Vast Areas of Pacific Ocean as Monuments
WASHINGTON, DC, January 6, 2009 (ENS) – Just two weeks before he leaves office, President George W. Bush today set aside three new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean. Taken together, the three monuments cover nearly 200,000 square miles, and they will now receive America’s highest level of environmental recognition and conservation, the president [...]
Read More »Mercury Found at High Levels in Indiana Streams
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, January 5, 2008 (ENS) – Six of every 100 streams in Indiana contain mercury at levels greater than the state water quality standard protecting human health, according to research released today by the U.S. Geological Survey. With new mapping techniques, the scientists identified an area in southeastern Indiana with some of the highest [...]
Read More »Chesapeake Bay Foundation Sues EPA to Force Cleanup
WASHINGTON, DC, January 5, 2008 (ENS) – The Chesapeake Bay Foundation today filed a lawsuit to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce pollution of all kinds enough to remove the nation’s largest estuary from the federal impaired waters list. Calling it “the most significant lawsuit in the history of Bay restoration,” with “unprecedented [...]
Read More »Peru Quadruples Copper Mining Concession to Monterrico
PIURA, Peru, January 5, 2008 (ENS) – The government of Peru has approved the request of British mining company Monterrico Metals to acquire a buffer zone around eight core mining concessions of the company’s Rio Blanco Project in the high mountains of northern Peru. The approval was granted against the will of the local residents, [...]
Read More »Australia Delays Decision on Giant Tasmanian Pulp Mill
CANBERRA, Australia, January 5, 2008 (ENS) – Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has delayed announcing his decision on a proposal for a new $2.2 billion pulp mill in northern Tasmania, saying that further environmental studies must be conducted. The minister was widely expected to approve the proposal today, but in a surprise move Garrett instead [...]
Read More »Frank-IN: Al Franken Finally Wins Minnesota Senate Race
Al Franken can finally declare victory tonight after a painstaking recount in Minnesota that lasted 62 days and involved the hand inspection of nearly 3 million votes. Franken, a comedian, author, radio host and host of “The Al Franken Show,” which ran for two seasons on Sundance Channel can now add Senator to his long [...]
Read More »Elvis Costello and Reggae Influences
One of the most interesting—and often forgotten—musical cross-pollinations in rock history is the connection forged between punk and reggae in 1970s England. The scenes were so connected that when Bob Marley visited London in 1977, he wrote “Punky Reggae Party” to celebrate the common ground these communities were finding. Though the Clash was the band [...]
Read More »Energy Efficiency Could Save Texans $11.9 Billion on Electric Bills
AUSTIN, Texas, January 2, 2008 (ENS) – Texas could reduce electric usage by 23 percent if utilities invest more in efficiency measures, saving Texans as much $11.9 billion on their electric bills, according to a report written by an energy consulting firm for the state Public Utilities Commission. The findings released in December support the [...]
Read More »Tennessee Governor Gets Tough After TVA Coal Ash Spill
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, January 2, 2008 (ENS) – Governor Phil Bredesen has told the Tennessee Valley Authority that after the coal ash spill at its Kingston Fossil power plant state officials will not allow the federal agency to continue to inspect itself. “We will be looking over their shoulders,” the governor said. “I have asked the [...]
Read More »Idaho Power Wants to Retire, Not Sell, Its Green Tags
BOISE, Idaho, January 2, 2008 (ENS) – The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is taking public comments through January 8 on an Idaho Power Company proposal that would allow the company to retire its green tags rather than sell them. A green tag, or Renewable Energy Credit, is issued to each utility for every megawatt hour [...]
Read More »New California Cars Display Smog, Global Warming Scores
SACRAMENTO, California, January 2, 2009 (ENS) – As of January 1, every 2009 model year and newer car built for sale in California will be required to carry a label that clearly ranks the vehicle’s environmental impact. A vehicle’s certification level can be found under the hood on the vehicle emissions control information label. The [...]
Read More »115 Groups Ask Obama’s Ag Secretary to End Wildlife Killing
WASHINGTON, DC, January 2, 2008 (ENS) – A coalition of 115 conservation, animal protection, ranching, and faith-based organizations from across the United States today sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for agriculture secretary asking that he halt the government slaughter of millions of wild animals, including wolves, coyotes, bears, cougars, and prairie dogs. [...]
Read More »Argentina Creates New Coastal Marine Park
NEW YORK, New York, January 2, 2008 (ENS) – A new coastal marine park signed into law by the government of Argentina is the first protected area in the country designed to safeguard areas of ocean where wildlife feed as well as onshore breeding colonies. The park in southern Argentina’s Chubut province became official in [...]
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