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EPA Blocks Giant Alaska Mine to Protect Bristol Bay Salmon
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on July 18th, 2014
Environment News Service: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed regulations to protect one of the world's most valuable salmon fisheries, in Bristol Bay, Alaska, from the risks posed by a proposed open pit mine nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon and larger than Manhattan.
This deposit of copper, gold and molybdenum is owned by Northern Dynasty Minerals based in Vancouver, Canada and the Pebble Limited Partnership, based in Anchorage, Alaska. It could become one of the largest open pit mines in the world...
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Comments Off on EPA Blocks Giant Alaska Mine to Protect Bristol Bay SalmonClimate Change Is Destroying America’s Historic Treasures
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on May 27th, 2014
Environment News Service: Rising sea levels, relentless floods and rampaging wildfires are destroying landmark historic sites around the United States, warns the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists in a new report.
The 30 threatened sites detailed in the report include places where Native Americans lived, Spaniards ruled, English colonists landed, slavery rose and fell, and gold prospectors struck it rich. Some of the sites commemorate more modern "firsts," such as the race to put the first man on the moon.
"You...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate Change Is Destroying America’s Historic TreasuresLethal Flooding in Balkans Brings EU to the Rescue
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on May 16th, 2014
Environment News Service: European countries formerly divided by the Bosnian war are today united by catastrophic flooding and the European Union is rushing to their rescue.
The European Union Civil Protection Mechanism was activated late Thursday at the requests of Serbia and of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to severe flooding that has inundated large areas of both countries.
The flooded Drina River, which forms the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, May 15, 2014. (Photo by Jelena)
On Thursday, the government...
IPCC: Global Warming Impacts May Be ‘Irreversible’
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 31st, 2014
Environment News Service: The effects of climate change are "already occurring on all continents and across the oceans," yet the world is "ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate," concludes the latest assessment, issued today, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"Increasing magnitudes of warming increase the likelihood of severe and pervasive impacts that may be surprising or irreversible," warns the report from the UN panel
The assessment, titled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and...
Oil Spill From Ship-Barge Crash Closes Houston Ship Channel
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 23rd, 2014
Environment News Service: A major oil spill Saturday has closed the Houston Ship Channel, preventing over 60 vessels, including three cruise ships, from transiting between the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Bay.
Efforts to contain and recover about 168,000 gallons of marine fuel oil spilled when a bulk carrier collided with a barge continue today with what the U.S. Coast Guard calls "aggressive deployment of all available response resources."
At 12:35 pm Saturday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Oil Spill From Ship-Barge Crash Closes Houston Ship ChannelEuropean Parliament Takes Aim at Plastic Bags
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 11th, 2014
Environment News Service: Members of the European Parliament`s Environment Committee Monday approved a report for reducing the use of single-use lightweight plastic carrier bags. The report recommends a two-stage reduction target for plastic bags across the EU`s 28 Member States.
The report advances the MEPs` process of amending the law on packaging and waste to limit the negative impacts of plastic bags on the environment, based on a proposal by the European Commission, the executive branch of the EU government.
The...
Hundreds Arrested Protesting Keystone XL at The White House
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 3rd, 2014
Environment News Service: Police arrested more than 370 young people who tied themselves to the White House fence on Sunday to protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.
Called XL Dissent, the protest was organized by college and university students to urge President Barack Obama to reject the northern leg of TransCanada`s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which needs presidential approval because it would cross an international border on its way from the Alberta tar sands to refineries in Texas.
Organizers...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Hundreds Arrested Protesting Keystone XL at The White HouseDuke Raked Over the Coals for 35 Million Gallon Ash Spill
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on February 26th, 2014
Environment News Service: An estimated 35 million gallons of arsenic-contaminated water and ash has spilled into the Dan River since February 2, when a stormwater pipe broke beneath an unlined coal ash storage pond at Duke Energy`s retired power plant in Eden, near the North Carolina-Virginia border.
Wake Forest University researchers, using a 3D model created with aerial images taken by a camera on their unmanned aircraft, estimate that up to 20 million gallons of ash and water spilled out of the pond on February 2, with...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Duke Raked Over the Coals for 35 Million Gallon Ash SpillNebraska Judge Voids Governor’s Right to Set Keystone XL Route
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on February 21st, 2014
Environment News Service: A Nebraska judge on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state law that had allowed Governor Dave Heineman to approve the route the Keystone XL pipeline would take through Nebraska.
Pipeline opponents and the three landowners who brought the case are declaring victory, but the state of Nebraska is appealing the decision.
"I'm pleased that Attorney General [Jon] Bruning is appealing this decision," Governor Heineman said in a statement. "This is an important issue for the state of Nebraska."...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Nebraska Judge Voids Governor’s Right to Set Keystone XL RouteWest Virginia’s Water Nightmare Closes Schools
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on February 7th, 2014
Environment News Service: Crude MCHM, one of two chemicals that leaked into West Virginia`s Elk River last month, was detected in the water supply of George Washington High School this morning, according to Kanawha-Charleston Health Department officials, weeks after the water was declared safe to use.
But Nassandra Wright, the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department`s head sanitarian, said the school`s results are below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention`s recommendation of one-part-per-million.
George Washington...