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United Nations picks Portland to host World Environment Day

2013-02-13 19:35:44| PortlandOnline

February 13, 2013

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Summary Meeting Notes: January 23, 2013 Watershed Health and Environment PEG

2013-02-13 01:06:05| PortlandOnline

PEG members discussed the Comprehensive Plan Working Draft, focusing on the WHE chapter and related goals & policies in other chapters.

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Meatless Monday Not Better For Health, Environment

2013-02-12 07:55:00| Beef

By: Karoline Rose for the Montana Standard It has come to my attention that Meatless Monday is being portrayed as a benefit to both your health and the environment. Unfortunately, that is incorrect. read more

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U.S. Environment Agency Releases First Climate Adaptation Plan

2013-02-12 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publicly released a draft plan on how the department's programmes will adapt to global warming, in a move that could lay additional groundwork for important new emissions rulemaking the agency may announce in coming months. Obama is being urged to set new carbon standards on U.S. power plants, cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by at least a quarter by 2020. Credit: public domain The EPA is tasked with oversight of the...

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German Environment Minister: We Want to Limit Fracking

2013-02-11 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Germany's environment minister said on Monday he did not want to make it easy for companies to "frack" for shale gas and could not see the practice happening in his country in the "forseeable future". Pending rules for the drilling techniques would likely be tightened, said Peter Altmaier, a conservative politician in chancellor Angela Merkel's government. "The message is we want to limit fracking, we don't want to facilitate it," he told Deutschlandfunk radio. "And anyway I don't see in the...

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