Ecology News
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New Poll: Nearly 75% of California Voters Choose Improving Local Water Supplies as Top Solution to Drought
California voters are more concerned about the drought than any other major issue and an overwhelming majority favor strategies to stretch local water supplies, including recycling, rainwater harvesting and efficiency measures, as the top solution to California’s water woes, according to a new poll conducted by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) on behalf of the Natural ...
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EPA Announces 11 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Totaling Over $5 Million to Combat Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of 11 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling more than $5 million for projects to combat invasive species in the Great Lakes basin. “These Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants will be used to target aquatic and terrestrial invasive species in the Great Lakes basin,” said Region 5 Administrator / Great ...
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NRDC’s President: Dingell a Giant Who Safeguarded Our Environment and Health
Rep. John Dingell, D-MI., the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress, today announced his retirement. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the following statement: “Our air, land and water are cleaner, our health better, and our environmental protections stronger thanks to John Dingell’s remarkable leadership over ...
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Coal-ash dumps threaten community
From his modest home near the Cape Fear River, Sam Malpass can glimpse the tall stacks of Duke Energy's Sutton Steam Electric Plant, a looming reminder of the environmental dangers threatening his family. Contaminated groundwater from a pair of huge Sutton coal-ash dumps is headed toward the wells that provide drinking water for Flemington, a largely working class community a half mile from the ...
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WRI India Welcomes Dr. Nitin Pandit as First Managing Director
WRI India is pleased to announce that Dr. Nitin Pandit has been appointed as its first Managing Director, based in Mumbai. Pandit will direct WRI India’s program priorities and growth strategy. He will supervise WRI India’s staff in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi, and work closely with its partners in government, business, civil society and academia. Pandit will be a member of the World ...
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Solar Impulse pioneer Bertrand Piccard receives “Green Cowbell Award 2014”
Dr Bertrand Piccard is this year’s winner of the “Green Cowbell Award”. The 55-year-old adventurer received the award for his services to environmental protection and his untiring work in promoting the use of renewable sources of energy. Together with Brian Jones, Piccard was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth in a balloon – non-stop, without an engine or ...
By ICM AG
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Duluth receives U.S. EPA’s first Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $250,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the City of Duluth to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in the Lake Superior Basin. Duluth is the first of 16 cities to receive funding in the initial round of EPA’s new Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grant program. EPA ...
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NRDC Calls on Senator Steinberg to Keep California Climate Program Strong -- No Exemptions for Oil Industry
California Senate pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) offered a proposal today that could exempt the oil industry from carbon pollution limits and jeopardize the future path of California’s landmark initiatives to combat climate change and advance clean energy. At the same time, he also included a well-received call on the Legislature to extend California’s climate program beyond ...
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Ecological Footprint highlights human pressures on biodiversity
The concept of the Ecological Footprint can be used to illustrate the balance between the use of a natural resource or an ecological service and its availability. According to a new study, the Ecological Footprint could be valuable as an indicator to help track progress towards the goals of the Convention on Biological ...
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Ultraportable and ultra-here: the LGR Greenhouse Gas Analyser
High performance portable analysers aimed at anyone wanting to measure CO2 and methane in the field are proving popular with existing and new customers at Enviro Technology Services. The ground-breaking ultraportable greenhouse gas analyser from Los Gatos Research (LGR) measures methane, carbon dioxide and water vapour simultaneously in a package that is compact and crushproof. But don’t ...
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Prosecutors file new subpoenas over NC coal ash
Federal prosecutors have served North Carolina's environmental agency with 20 more subpoenas seeking documents and ordering 19 state employees to testify before a grand jury, part of a broadening criminal investigation into a massive coal ash spill. The subpoenas made public by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Wednesday also ordered state officials to hand over any ...
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Toxins leaking from 2nd pipe at NC coal ash dump
North Carolina officials said Tuesday that groundwater containing unsafe levels of arsenic apparently leaching from a Duke Energy coal ash dump is still pouring into the Dan River, which is already contaminated from a massive Feb. 2 spill. The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered Duke to stop the flow of contaminated water coming out a pipe that runs under a huge coal ...
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Tetra Tech to Present at the Baird Business Solutions Conference
Tetra Tech to Present at the Baird Business Solutions Conference PASADENA, Calif. Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that Dan Batrack, Chairman and CEO, will give a presentation to investors at the Baird Business Solutions Conference in New York on Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at 10:55 a.m. Eastern Time. A copy of the presentation slides will be available under the Investor ...
By Tetra Tech
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NRDC: President Obama Driving America to Cleaner Energy Future
President Obama’s newly announced fuel-efficiency standards for heavy trucks will help such vehicles go farther on less fuel while further curbing carbon pollution from America’s transportation sector, the largest source of carbon pollution after power plants. The following is a statement from Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who is scheduled to ...
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North Carolina Gov. McCrory briefed on Duke coal ash lawsuit
North Carolina's top environmental official said Monday that he briefed Gov. Pat McCrory before intervening in lawsuits against Duke Energy, resulting in a negotiated settlement that fined the $50 billion corporation $99,111 to resolve violations over groundwater contamination leaching from two huge coal ash dumps. Environmentalists criticized the modest fines as a sweetheart deal that ...
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Novo Nordisk and Trucost publish environmental profit and loss account
Novo Nordisk has become the first pharmaceutical company in the world to publish an environmental profit and loss account so that it can further integrate sustainability into its core business. The EP&L was developed in partnership with natural capital analysts Trucost. Novo Nordisk, which is best known for making insulin to treat diabetes, has a well-established sustainability strategy ...
By Trucost Plc
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NRDC: Secretary John Kerry is Right on Urgency to Address Climate Change
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of the International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made this statement in response to Secretary of State John Kerry's speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, today about the urgent global need to fight the ravages of climate change: “Sec. Kerry is right: The global community needs to come together to combat climate change. And the United States ...
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NRDC: President Obama to Lend Much-Needed Support to Drought-Stricken California
During President Obama’s trip to drought-stricken California today, he is expected to visit impacted communities, meet with local stakeholders and announce new efforts to support the state, including proposing a $1 billion Climate Resilience Fund as part of his federal budget proposal next month. According to reports, the fund will support research, community preparedness and new ...
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US investigates North Carolina coal ash spill
Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into a massive coal ash spill into a North Carolina river, demanding that Duke Energy and state regulators hand over reams of documents related to the accident that left a waterway polluted with tons of toxic sludge. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Raleigh issued grand jury subpoenas seeking records from Duke and the North Carolina ...
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Poverty eradication and sustainable development after 2015
Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, Distinguished panel, I was yesterday in CoR discussing resource efficiency issues. As you know, resource efficiency and the post 2015 framework are two topics close to my heart. I am grateful to the EESC for organising this conference. EESC has been a great partner in Rio+20, and now again for post 2015. Post 2015 will not only affect many of us, it will also ...
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