Big Oil Doesn’t Want Trump’s New Oilfield Methane Rule Rollbacks But Small Producers Are Cheering

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Washington D.C. — On August 13, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled back methane emission standards for the oil and gas industry, and it’s not the only substance the agency plans to liberate from regulatory control. The rules being rescinded required producers to…

Atomic Bellyflop: America’s 1st ’21st Century Nuclear Reactor’ Fails, Shuts Down After 5 Months

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Spring City, Tennessee — On March 23, 2017, after less than six months of operation, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Watts Bar 2 nuclear power unit (Watts Bar 2) was shut down. Failing components in the condenser caused America’s first 21st Century nuclear…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘I love James Hansen, but he is wrong on [the nuclear power issue]’

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Park City, Utah — Is nuclear power the answer to global warming? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. doesn’t think so. In this interview with EnviroNews Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry, the well-known environmental activist explains his position on the contentious issue. “I’m all for nuke if…

Alaska’s Fast-Melting Permafrost Now Releasing More Carbon Than it Can Absorb, Worsening Climate

(EnviroNews Alaska) — Alaska’s warming permafrost is now giving off more greenhouse gases than it traps during the growing season, according to a new study published May 8, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The amount of carbon trapped in Arctic soil is…

Forest Conservation Report: U.S. Gov. Severely Underestimating Impact of Logging on Climate

(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — The North Carolina forest conservation group Dogwood Alliance published a report called, “The Great American Stand: U.S. Forests and the Climate Emergency,” in late March 2017. In the analysis, the authors evaluate the effects of U.S. logging on carbon emissions and climate…

EDITORIAL: The Washington Post Editorial Board’s Epic Fail on ‘Carbon-Free’ Nuclear Power

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — EDITORIAL: A repeated theme in the legendary and utterly hilarious cult classic film The Big Lebowski features the character of a belligerent Vietnam veteran, Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), yelling at his bowling mate and buddy Theodore Donald Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi), “Shut the fuck…

Study: 10 Yrs. to Stop Climate Damage or Else! (as Pruitt Calls for U.S. to ‘Exit’ Paris Accord)

(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Humanity has about a decade to reduce carbon emissions and meet the climate goals set by the monumental Paris Agreement (Paris accord) of 2016, according to an International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) study called, Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and…

Interior Leases 1st of 14 U.S. Coal Strips Not Under Moratorium: 55M Tons in Utah Ntl. Forest

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Washington D.C. — On March 15, 2017, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI/Interior) Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the approval of a multimillion-dollar coal lease in Utah for the Greens Hollow tract, which lies under lands in the Manti-La Sal and Fishlake National Forests…

Ol’ ‘Puff the Toxic Dragon’ (Stericycle Emergency Bypass Stack) at it Again

(EnviroNews Utah) — Well, not surprisingly, old “Puff the Toxic Dragon” has been at it again. What’s that? — one might ask. Only bombing hundreds of thousands of people along the Salt Lake Valley’s Wasatch Front with downright deadly air pollution — air pollution loaded with “HAPs” or…

And You Thought Canada Had Tar Sands? — UT/CO Have 25X More And They’re Ripping into It

(EnviroNews Utah) – EDITOR’S NOTE: When originally released, this documentary filmed was titled, “Families Camp Out in Protest to Save the Tavaputs Plateau from America’s First Approved Commercial Tar Sands Mine.” The transcript reads as follows: Tar sands, oil sands, asphalt, and bituminous sands. These names all represent…

The Environmental Good of Green Burials and Green Coffins

(EnviroNews California) — San Francisco, California — In this episode from the 2011 New Living Expo in San Francisco California, Jane Hillhouse of Final Footprint casket company explains the dangers and harms of conventional burials and caskets. She goes on to demonstrate the beautiful green caskets distributed by…

Governor Herbert Addresses the Contentiousness of HJR 12

(EnviroNews Utah) – A segment discussing Global Warming and House Joint Resolution 12 (HJR 12) from our full feature interview with Utah Republican Governor Gary R. Herbert in the Governor’s Office on Capitol Hill. The hour and fifteen minute interview covers issues exclusively pertaining to the environment, energy,…

Governor Herbert Discusses Working With Democrats and Republicans and Refers to Rep. Mike Noel as “Ultra Conservative”

(EnviroNews Utah) – A segment discussing Mike Noel (R-Kanab County) from our full feature interview with Utah Republican Governor Gary R. Herbert in the Governors Office on Capitol Hill. The hour and fifteen minute interview covers issues exclusively pertaining to the environment, energy, and human health and is…

Heated Global Warming Legislative Fiasco Goes Down on Capitol Hill (Video)

(EnviroNews Utah) – This segment airs from the “legislative freak-show” on Capitol Hill in Utah surrounding HJR12 and HJR21. The news-brief features former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson going head to head with Republican Representative Mike Noel who was the sponsor of HJR21. Our coverage on…

Highly Controversial Climate Fiasco Goes Down in Utah With HJR 12 and HJR 21

(EnviroNews Utah) – This is the first part of our coverage on the global warming-oriented, legislative fiasco on Capitol Hill in Utah surrounding two highly controversial pieces of legislation. House Joint Resolution 12 (HJR 12), and it’s counterpart HJR 21 made national headlines as Utah’s highly conservative Republican…