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‘Monarch Wings Across Ohio’ Campaign Launches with Aggressive Effort to Save the Species

(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…

Drone Footage Shows Devastating Scope of Deforestation for Palm Oil in Indonesia

(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,…

USA Freedom Act Doesn’t Go Far Enough to Stop Government Spying, Critics Say

(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…

New U.S. DOE Breakthrough Could Simplify Tokamak Design for Fusion Energy

(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…

Norway’s $900bn Behemoth ‘Oil Fund’ to Divest $4.5bn from Coal

(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…

Burt’s Bees Spearheads Coalition to Save America’s Honeybees

(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…

Sri Lanka’s President Bans Monsanto Roundup and all Glyphosate Products

(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…

Edinburgh University Caves to Campaign Pressure, Divestment in Coal, Tar Sands Coming

(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…

Petition Demands DOJ Investigation of Koch Brothers for Perpetrating Voter Fraud

(EnviroNews World News) — The Daily Kos has launched a petition campaign demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) launch a probe into petrochemical billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch. The petition alleges that the infamous fossil fuel and chemical giants have perpetrated voter fraud via Americans for Prosperity,…

Indicted CEO in Idaho Nuclear Power Scam Jumps Bail

(EnviroNews Idaho) — Boise, Idaho — Donald L. Gillespie, indicted CEO of the now defunct nuclear power penny stock scam Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEHI), jumped bail today in Boise, Idaho. In November of 2014, Gillespie and Jennifer Ransom, Senior Vice President of the company (and also Gillespie’s…