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Honduras: Anti-dam Activists Call for Justice in Cáceres Killing
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 9th, 2016
Environment News Service: Indigenous leaders fighting against dams worldwide have issued a joint call for a prompt, thorough and independent investigation into the death of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres of Honduras. In a statement today, anti-dam activists expressed their grief and anger over the killing of Cáceres, 45, defender of the rights of the Lenca people. She was murdered in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, last week. The coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras, Cáceres was...
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Goldman Prize Winner Murdered in Honduras
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 4th, 2016
Environment News Service: A indigenous Lenca woman who was honored with a 2015 Goldman Prize last year for her fight against a destructive dam, was killed by gunmen last night in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. Berta Cáceres won a $175,000 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to defend the Gualcarque River, its environment and people from the Agua Zarca Dam. If built, the dam would cut off the supply of water, food and medicine for hundreds of Lenca people and violate their right to sustainably manage and live off...
Replacement of Flint’s Lead Water Pipes Underway
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on February 22nd, 2016
Environment News Service: Work on replacing high-risk lead service lines in Flint is under way as state and city leaders focus on removing pipes in priority areas while analyzing the city's water pipe network to maximize efficiency, said Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
The state last week came to an agreement with Rowe Professional Services, a Flint-based engineering firm, to update recent analysis of water pipes in the city and boost efforts to protect the health and safety of city residents.
"We're immediately targeting...
Toxins Found in 39% of U.S. Southeastern Streams
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on February 21st, 2016
Environment News Service: Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey have found toxins produced by algae, known as microcystins, in 39 percent of the small streams assessed in the southeastern United States.
Their study looked at 75 streams in parts of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
"This is the first systematic stream survey of algal toxins in the southeastern United States," said Keith Loftin, the USGS research chemist who led the study.
"It`s important, because it provides a better...
Michigan Governor in Hot Water Over Flint Water Crisis
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on January 16th, 2016
Environment News Service: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, Thursday asked President Barack Obama to declare both an emergency and an expedited major disaster for Genesee County as a result of ongoing emergency water response efforts in the city of Flint.
Snyder requested federal aid in the form of individual and public assistance to help residents and state and local government agencies to protect the health, safety and welfare of Flint`s more than 102,400 residents.
Located along the Flint River, 66 miles...
Obama Halts Coal Leases on U.S. Public Lands
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on January 15th, 2016
Environment News Service: No new coal leases will be issued on public lands while the Obama Administration conducts a comprehensive review of the federal coal program to identify and evaluate potential reforms, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced today.
Taxpayer-owned federal lands supply roughly 40 percent of all U.S. coal production, and mining under existing leases will continue during the review.
"Even as our nation transitions to cleaner energy sources, building on smart policies and progress already underway,...
EPA Urged to Ban Widely-Used Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on January 6th, 2016
Environment News Service: Under the threat of a court order, the Environmental Protection Agency last October proposed a ban on all agricultural uses of the Dow AgroSciences insecticide chlorpyrifos.
Now, more than 80,000 people have submitted comments to the EPA urging the agency to ban chlorpyrifos from use on all crops immediately.
First developed by Dow AgroSciences in the 1960s, chlorpyrifos is no longer patent protected and is now the active ingredient in dozens of pesticide products made by companies such as...
Too Toxic: EPA Rejects Dow’s Herbicide Enlist Duo
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 25th, 2015
Environment News Service: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will vacate its approval of the Dow AgroSciences herbicide Enlist Duo after determining that its combination of chemicals could be more harmful than initially believed.
Responding to a lawsuit by conservation groups, in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, the EPA moved for voluntary vacatur and remand of EPA's registration of Dow AgroSciences' Enlist Duo herbicide under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, FIFRA. ...
Canada’s Trudeau Orders Tanker Ban on B.C. North Coast
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 14th, 2015
Environment News Service: Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today instructed his incoming cabinet members to work together to “formalize a moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic on British Columbia’s north coast.” In mandate letters to Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Hunter Tootoo, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard made public Friday, Trudeau says he expects the ministers to formalize the moratorium as a top priority. Environmentalists say the ban ends Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline...
Two Dead in Brazilian Iron Mine Tailings Dam Collapse
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 7th, 2015
Environment News Service: Two people are dead and at least 13 others are missing after two tailings dams collapsed Thursday at an iron mine near the rural village of Bento Rodrigues in the state of Minas Gerais.
The Fundão and Santarém dams belonging to the mining company burst November 5 at around 4:30 in the afternoon, flooding the area with mud, solid waste and water residue from mining operations.
The village of Bento Rodrigues is covered in mud from the collapse of two tailings dams. Nov. 6, 2015 (Photo courtesy...