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Dalai Lama: Cultivate Inner Peace to Save the Planet
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on May 13th, 2013
Environment News Service: "The main thing is the oneness of humanity," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said during an environmental summit Saturday in Portland.
"In 1959 I came from Tibet and escaped to India. Now the whole world has some problems, but there is no other place to escape," he told an audience of 11,000 people. "Environmental protection, taking care of our world, is like taking care of our own home. This is our only home, so we have to take care, and not only for our generation."
The Dalai...
Sandy Eco-Restoration Gets $1 Billion+ in Federal Grants
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on May 8th, 2013
Environment News Service: The Department of the Interior is releasing $475.25 million in emergency Hurricane Sandy disaster relief appropriations to 234 projects that will repair and rebuild parks, refuges and other Interior assets damaged by the storm.
Sandy struck the U.S. Atlantic coast on October 29, 2012, and affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. In New York...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on May 6th, 2013
Environment News Service: The British oil company BP has agreed to pay $600 million to cover 28 early restoration projects in the Gulf Coast states damaged by the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.
In a preliminary agreement reached with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees, the company will pay for the 28 projects in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. These projects will restore marshes, barrier islands, dunes and near shore marine environments.
This funding...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on BP Agrees to 28 Early Restoration Projects for Gulf StatesBristol Bay: Largest Salmon Fishery vs Giant Mine Proposal
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 30th, 2013
Environment News Service: If Bristol Bay, Alaska is opened to mining, the ore deposit would be mined for decades, and the wastes would require management "for centuries or even in perpetuity," finds a revised environmental assessment issued Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Bristol Bay watershed in southwestern Alaska supports the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world, is home to 25 federally recognized tribal governments, and also contains one of the largest concentrations of copper, gold and...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Bristol Bay: Largest Salmon Fishery vs Giant Mine ProposalAthabaskan Council: Arctic Warming Violates Our Human Rights
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 24th, 2013
Environment News Service: The Arctic Athabaskan Council today filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, requesting a declaration that Canada is undermining the human rights of Athabaskan peoples by allowing emissions of black carbon to warm the Arctic.
The Arctic Athabaskan Council is an international treaty organization established to defend the rights and further the interests of American and Canadian Athabaskan First Nation governments in the eight-nation Arctic Council, of which it is an authorized...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Athabaskan Council: Arctic Warming Violates Our Human RightsCourt Orders EPA to Impose Power Plant Water Pollution Rule
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 23rd, 2013
Environment News Service: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must meet a court-ordered deadline to issue regulations that clean up power plant water pollution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today. The decision turns back an attempt by the utility industry to avoid the financial and operational burdens of the regulations.
On Friday, the EPA proposed a series of regulatory options for controlling pollution from power plants, such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium, released into...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 19th, 2013
Environment News Service: Desalination plants are typically built in dry places. But along New York`s Hudson River a different story is unfolding.
A desalination plant has been proposed by United Water New York, a private company, to address the rapid growth of water demand in the expanding New York City suburb of Rockland County.
If built, the Haverstraw Water Supply Project on the Hudson River`s Haverstraw Bay would mark New York State's first foray into desalination, the process of removing salt and particulates...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 19th, 2013
Environment News Service: Opponents of TransCanada`s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline packed a State Department public hearing on its latest environmental analysis of the pipeline to warn that it is all risk for the United States, with no reward.
More than 1,000 pipeline opponents -- far outnumbering supporters -- packed a hearing room in Grand Island Wednesday to deliver that message to the State Department officials.
Chair of the new anti-pipeline group "All Risk, No Reward" Coalition, Nebraska landowner Randy Thompson,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Keystone XL Pipeline ‘All Risk, No Reward’ State Dept. ToldColorado River Tops America’s Most Endangered Rivers List
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 17th, 2013
Environment News Service: "Dammed, diverted, and drained ... to a trickle" and facing another drought this summer, the Colorado River tops American Rivers` annual list of America`s Most Endangered Rivers, the nonprofit river advocacy group announced today.
From its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Colorado River flows for 1,450 miles through seven U.S. and two Mexican states, sustaining tens of millions of people as well as endangered fish and wildlife.
With its dramatic canyons, including the Grand Canyon,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Colorado River Tops America’s Most Endangered Rivers ListKeystone XL Pipeline Would Hasten Climate Change: Report
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 16th, 2013
Environment News Service: In a new report, "Cooking the Books: How The State Department Analysis Ignores the True Climate Impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline," environmental groups and scientists opposed to the pipeline warn of "climate disaster" if President Barack Obama allows it to cross the Canada-U.S. border, carrying tar sands bitumen from Alberta to Nebraska.
The U.S. portion of the Keystone XL pipeline needs no Presidential Permit, Oklahoma, January 2013. (Photo by Laura Borealis / Tar Sands Blockade)
In its...
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