News and Press Releases from Environment News Service (ENS)

U.S. Heavy Trucks Must Burn Less Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

The Obama Administration is proposing standards for heavy and medium-duty trucks and buses that are expected to improve fuel efficiency by one-third and cut carbon emissions to fight climate change, while fortifying U.S. energy security and ...

Jun. 20, 2015

Pope Francis: protect the climate as a ‘common good’

“The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all,” declares Pope Francis in his first major teaching on the environment, an encyclical letter released today. Pope Francis urges all human beings to change their ...

Jun. 18, 2015

World Governments Are Limiting Carbon Emissions

Three-quarters of the world’s annual emissions of greenhouse gases are now limited by national targets, finds a new study published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and ...

Jun. 7, 2015

Product carbon labeling takes shape in South Korea

The South Korean government has decided that selected products will carry labels in the marketplace to show the size of their carbon footprints. During the testing phase, just 10 products will get carbon labels, but if the program is successful, it ...

Jul. 29, 2008

Oil spill closes 80 miles of the Mississippi River

Crews are struggling to contain and clean more than 419,000 gallons of fuel oil from an 80 mile closed stretch of the Mississippi River that extends from New Orleans downstream to the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spilled early Wednesday near downtown New ...

Jul. 25, 2008

Greenpeacers arrested protesting oil sands in Northern Alberta

Eleven Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude`s Aurora North Tar Sands facility north of Fort McMurray last week, erecting a banner that transformed the opening of a tailings pond pipe into the `mouth` of a giant skull, spewing toxic sludge. Shortly ...

Jul. 25, 2008

Ohio`s US$2.5bn plan to reduce overflows

The Ohio EPA is seeking public comments on its draft approval of the city of Columbus` wet weather management plan. The sewer system in Ohio`s capital city currently discharges some 1.65 billion gallons of sewer overflow in a typical year. Under the ...

Jul. 22, 2008

US and Canada strengthen Great Lakes cooperation

The Ontario Government and municipal officials from around the Great Lakes on both sides of the border have begun a new era of working together to restore, protect and conserve the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem. A memo of cooperation signed Thursday ...

Jul. 22, 2008

New Jersey carbon cap and trade plan called `timid`

A newly proposed cap-and-trade program to reduce emissions of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, in New Jersey may do little to combat global warming, charges Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, a nonprofit ...

Jul. 18, 2008

California officials propose US$9.3bn water bond for November ballot

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and US Senator Dianne Feinstein of California jointly announced a proposal Thursday to address a severe water shortage in California by borrowing US$9.3 billion to increase water storage, conveyance and ...

Jul. 16, 2008

US energy department faulted for mishandling Hanford nuclear waste

The US Department of Energy doesn`t know enough about the condition and contents of millions of gallons of radioactive and hazardous wastes stored in tanks at its Hanford Site in Washington state to make good decisions about cleanup and costs, ...

Jul. 15, 2008

Safety measures proposed for soil fumigant pesticides

New draft safety measures for soil fumigant pesticides proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency last week require that users of these chemicals submit written, site-specific fumigant management plans before fumigations begin. All soil ...

Jul. 15, 2008

US$3.8m cleanup planned for tainted creeks near Ohio superfund site

A month-long public comment period begins this week on a proposed US$3.8 million plan to clean a toxic insecticide from soil and sediment in two creeks near the Nease Chemical Superfund site in Columbiana County, Ohio. The Nease Chemical Co. ...

Jul. 15, 2008

Washington state drafts rainwater collection rule

The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking help from the general public in drafting regulations on the collection and use of rainwater in Washington State. Members of the public will have an opportunity to learn about rainwater collection and ...

Jul. 15, 2008

Bush removes executive ban on offshore oil drilling

President George W. Bush has removed the executive ban on offshore exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf, the OCS, that has stood since his father was in the Oval Office. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, the president blamed the ...

Jul. 15, 2008

Canada opens CAN$30m fund to clean popular vacation lake

The first few thousand dollars of a $30 million dollar Canadian government fund began flowing to help clean up excess nutrients in one of Ontario`s most beloved lake resort destinations. Excessive emissions of the nutrient phosphorus from both urban ...

Jul. 14, 2008

Shrinking New York City`s carbon footprint

Environment News Service (ENS) News

U.S. Heavy Trucks Must Burn Less Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

Pope Francis: protect the climate as a ‘common good’

World Governments Are Limiting Carbon Emissions

Product carbon labeling takes shape in South Korea

Oil spill closes 80 miles of the Mississippi River

Greenpeacers arrested protesting oil sands in Northern Alberta

Ohio`s US$2.5bn plan to reduce overflows

US and Canada strengthen Great Lakes cooperation

New Jersey carbon cap and trade plan called `timid`

California officials propose US$9.3bn water bond for November ballot

US energy department faulted for mishandling Hanford nuclear waste

Safety measures proposed for soil fumigant pesticides

US$3.8m cleanup planned for tainted creeks near Ohio superfund site

Washington state drafts rainwater collection rule

Bush removes executive ban on offshore oil drilling

Canada opens CAN$30m fund to clean popular vacation lake

Shrinking New York City`s carbon footprint

Lone Star Sierra Club sues to void uranium waste license

US urged to merge land and oceans agencies into one

California Governor activates excessive heat emergency plan