This blog post was written by Dr. Bonnie New, former Director of Health Professionals for Clean Air. Physicians treating patients with respiratory symptoms look for underlying causes or aggravators, and that includes exposure to air pollution. If that pollution involves particulate matter – also…
By Monica Michaan It's amazing that 2013 is around the corner, and we're already preparing for the next GreenBiz Forum in February. It seems like just last month Sitar Mody attended GreenBiz Forum 2012 . Framed by the 2013 State of Green Business report, the GreenBiz Forum defines the…
By Maura Wood, National Wildlife Federation On Oct. 31, 2012, Garret Graves, director of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), spoke at the Second Summit on Coastal Restoration in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes held at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La. At…
By Jim Marston Throughout 2012, EDF's Energy Innovation Series will highlight around 20 innovations across a broad range of energy categories, including smart grid and renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency financing, and progressive utilities, to name a few. This series will…
Vision Industries, EDF, and Air Products were awarded $500,000 from TERP to fund the building of the first public hydrogen fueling station in Texas. Wed, 2012-12-05 Contact: Jerome…
Thriving on a Sinking Landscape NOAA ClimateWatch Magazine. November 29, 2012. "If you locate South Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on a map or a satellite image, you’ll see two distinct ribbons that weave their way toward the Gulf of Mexico…" ( Read more ) Scientists still learning from…
By Tom Murray I don’t know about you, but when I watch the nightly news, I look forward to the last news item of the broadcast. You know the one. It is usually a heartwarming story of how one individual is reaching out to another, oftentimes in the most inventive way imaginable. Well, I didn’t…
HONOLULU - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of proposed action under the Clean Water Act to reissue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits to the Guam Waterworks Authority for the Northern District and Agana Sewage Treatment Plants. The proposed permits will…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- New Issue -- Invasive Plant Science and Management - Jul-Sep (Vol 5, Issue 3) is available online: Note : Article abstracts are available to everyone. Full-text articles may require a subscription (USDA access through DigiTop ).…
EPA awards nearly $700K to student teams nationwide
This blog post was written by Dr. Bonnie New, former Director of Health Professionals for Clean Air. Physicians treating patients with respiratory symptoms look for underlying causes or aggravators, and that includes exposure to air pollution. If that pollution involves particulate matter – also…
By Monica Michaan It's amazing that 2013 is around the corner, and we're already preparing for the next GreenBiz Forum in February. It seems like just last month Sitar Mody attended GreenBiz Forum 2012 . Framed by the 2013 State of Green Business report, the GreenBiz Forum defines the…
By Maura Wood, National Wildlife Federation On Oct. 31, 2012, Garret Graves, director of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), spoke at the Second Summit on Coastal Restoration in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes held at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La. At…
By Jim Marston Throughout 2012, EDF's Energy Innovation Series will highlight around 20 innovations across a broad range of energy categories, including smart grid and renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency financing, and progressive utilities, to name a few. This series will…
Vision Industries, EDF, and Air Products were awarded $500,000 from TERP to fund the building of the first public hydrogen fueling station in Texas. Wed, 2012-12-05 Contact: Jerome…
Thriving on a Sinking Landscape NOAA ClimateWatch Magazine. November 29, 2012. "If you locate South Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on a map or a satellite image, you’ll see two distinct ribbons that weave their way toward the Gulf of Mexico…" ( Read more ) Scientists still learning from…
By Tom Murray I don’t know about you, but when I watch the nightly news, I look forward to the last news item of the broadcast. You know the one. It is usually a heartwarming story of how one individual is reaching out to another, oftentimes in the most inventive way imaginable. Well, I didn’t…
HONOLULU - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of proposed action under the Clean Water Act to reissue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits to the Guam Waterworks Authority for the Northern District and Agana Sewage Treatment Plants. The proposed permits will…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- New Issue -- Invasive Plant Science and Management - Jul-Sep (Vol 5, Issue 3) is available online: Note : Article abstracts are available to everyone. Full-text articles may require a subscription (USDA access through DigiTop ).…
EPA awards nearly $700K to student teams nationwide (Denver, Colorado—December 4, 2012) Two student-led projects at the University of Utah have received $15,000 each from the U.S
RESTORE Act's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council to hold first meeting Dec. 11 in Mobile, Ala. By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). November 30, 2012. "The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, which will oversee the spending of about 80 percent of BP Clean…
By Alisha A. Renfro, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, National Wildlife Federation This year, drought conditions throughout most of the country have left the Mississippi River flowing at a near all-time low . This is a stark comparison to 2011, when heavy rains and a large snowmelt in the spring sent record…
By Elena Craft, PhD Credit: www.globalpost.com This is the first of a two-part series on greenhouse gases and the part Texas plays. This week wraps up COP18, “ The Convention on Climate Change ” conference held in Doha, Qatar this year. COP18 gets its name from the 18 th session of the…
By Cameron Davis On November 22, the Rouse Simmons listed badly, caked in ice from water and snow during one of storms for which the Great Lakes are known this time of year. Its cargo: more than 5,000 Christmas trees bound from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Chicago. Hermann Schuenemann had been…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- New Ask an Expert 2.0 Launches on December 3 (Dec 2, 2012) A major update to Ask an Expert, released on Monday Dec 3, extends the reach of research-based answers making them a learning tool for a larger number of people. * See our…
Source: www.kidsstuffworld.com This blog post written by Adrian Shelley originally appears on the Air Alliance Houston blog . Earlier this year, we wrote about the consequences of Houston’s failure to meet a thirty year old one-hour ozone pollution standard. The federal Clean Air Act imposes…
NOAA scientists and colleagues are installing the first of four long-term “atmospheric river observatories” in coastal California this month to better monitor and predict the impacts of landfalling atmospheric rivers.
(November 30, 2012 – BATON ROUGE, LA) The Louisiana Wildlife Federation (LWF) is accepting nominations for the 49th Governor's State Conservation Achievement Awards. The program recognizes those persons and organizations making outstanding contributions to the natural resource welfare and…
In a long-awaited decision, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 2011 lower court ruling confirming the legality of the NE sector program.Ruling on a suit brought by the ports of New Bedford and Gloucester, as well as fishermen and fishing groups, the justices determined that the NE…
The new NOAA Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard, to be presented this week at the American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, offers interactive displays of any combination of historical, current and projected water levels for all of the North American Great Lakes.
RESTORE Act's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council to hold first meeting Dec. 11 in Mobile, Ala. By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). November 30, 2012. "The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, which will oversee the spending of about 80 percent of BP Clean…
By Alisha A. Renfro, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, National Wildlife Federation This year, drought conditions throughout most of the country have left the Mississippi River flowing at a near all-time low . This is a stark comparison to 2011, when heavy rains and a large snowmelt in the spring sent record…
By Elena Craft, PhD Credit: www.globalpost.com This is the first of a two-part series on greenhouse gases and the part Texas plays. This week wraps up COP18, “ The Convention on Climate Change ” conference held in Doha, Qatar this year. COP18 gets its name from the 18 th session of the…
By Cameron Davis On November 22, the Rouse Simmons listed badly, caked in ice from water and snow during one of storms for which the Great Lakes are known this time of year. Its cargo: more than 5,000 Christmas trees bound from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Chicago. Hermann Schuenemann had been…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- New Ask an Expert 2.0 Launches on December 3 (Dec 2, 2012) A major update to Ask an Expert, released on Monday Dec 3, extends the reach of research-based answers making them a learning tool for a larger number of people. * See our…
Source: www.kidsstuffworld.com This blog post written by Adrian Shelley originally appears on the Air Alliance Houston blog . Earlier this year, we wrote about the consequences of Houston’s failure to meet a thirty year old one-hour ozone pollution standard. The federal Clean Air Act imposes…
NOAA scientists and colleagues are installing the first of four long-term “atmospheric river observatories” in coastal California this month to better monitor and predict the impacts of landfalling atmospheric rivers.
(November 30, 2012 – BATON ROUGE, LA) The Louisiana Wildlife Federation (LWF) is accepting nominations for the 49th Governor's State Conservation Achievement Awards. The program recognizes those persons and organizations making outstanding contributions to the natural resource welfare and…
In a long-awaited decision, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 2011 lower court ruling confirming the legality of the NE sector program.Ruling on a suit brought by the ports of New Bedford and Gloucester, as well as fishermen and fishing groups, the justices determined that the NE…
The new NOAA Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard, to be presented this week at the American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, offers interactive displays of any combination of historical, current and projected water levels for all of the North American Great Lakes.