(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — Friends of Animals (FoA), the non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, announced on May 19, 2015, that they had filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compelling the agency to rescind its registration of the sterility-inducing pesticide porcine zona…
(EnviroNews World News) — A medical waste incinerator has been bombing communities near Bloemfontein with emergency bypass smoke for years reports All Africa, an african online news paper and agregator. According to the report, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) investigated the facility after residents complained that…
(EnviroNews World News) — Annapolis, Maryland — “Through October 2017, the Maryland Department of Environment will be prohibited from issuing permits to allow drillers to frack for natural gas within the state, part of which sits atop the Marcellus Shale.” That was how Grist reported it when Maryland…
(EnviroNews World News) A petition titled Stop Animal Testing by Johnson & Johnson has been floating around the internet. The petition is authored by Olivia Nestro. It is not announced on the petition page how many people have signed on so far. Johnson & Johnson has taken heat…
(EnviroNews World News) — Denton, Texas — Three were arrested Monday, and another three today as protestors chained themselves to the entrance of fracking wells near Denton. The city is also known for being the birthplace of modern-day fracking — but earlier this year, citizens of that town…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — The Obama Administration has finally done it. They have approved an even bigger carbon bomb than what would be created by the bitumen that would flow through the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline should it be ultimately approved. More Powder River Basin…
(EnviroNews World News) — A new study conducted by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has found that rivers, lakes and streams around the state are littered with unregulated chemicals. The substances detected include myriad hormone disrupting chemicals — mostly from pharmaceutical drugs and personal care products. By…
(EnviroNews World News) — The organization Pollinator Partnership is at it again. What’s that? Doing its best to save another species in peril of course. The group announced in a press release on May 28, 2015, its launch of the “Monarch Wings Across Ohio” campaign — a movement…
(EnviroNews World News) — On April 25, 2015 drone footage surfaced from Indonesia that displayed the scope of deforestation for palm oil in the country. The video, posted on user Ben Cushing’s YouTube Account account captures flying footage over PT Adau Agro Kalbar plantation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia,…
(EnviroNews World News) — The Senate has now voted to move the USA Freedom Act of 2015 forward for a final vote — this, after much haggling in the Senate including Rand Paul speaking on the floor until the cows came home in an effort to get his…
(EnviroNews World News) — Princeton, New Jersey — Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), reported a breakthrough in fusion energy science on June 1, 2015, with the simulation of “plasmoids” in a tokamak-like environment. It was also…
(EnviroNews World News) At a meeting of the Norweigian parliament’s finance committee on May 27, 2015 members voted to pull the country’s money out of coal investments, citing climate change as the driving factor. The “sovereign wealth fund,” or oil fund as it is commonly known is a…
(EnviroNews World News) — In response to myriad horrifying reports showcasing a plummeting of bee populations worldwide, legendary company Burt’s Bees has stepped up to the plate in a grassroots effort to mitigate the damage and improve the overall situation. According to Pollinator Partnership, bees can be thanked…
(EnviroNews World News) — In a bombshell announcement, newly elected Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has followed Bermuda’s lead in banning the import, sale or deployment of glyphosate containing products in his country. Discovered by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970, glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide that…
(EnviroNews World News) — Following an intense occupation of a university management building that lasted nearly two weeks, Eidinburgh University finally relented under the pressure and announced on May 26, 2015 it would be pulling its money out of the dirtiest of dirty fossil fuels. The announcement was…
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