Environmental News Network

New Environment-Friendly Technology Developed
The painting industry was regarded during the bubble economy as a typical example of a dirty and dangerous industry and treated as a nuisance to the environment. But painting artisans' skills developed in the city of Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, are going to bear fruit as new environmentally friendly technologies. >> Read the Full Article
Energy, Farms, Water Seen Aided by Nanotechnology
Futuristic microscopic devices could store energy, raise farm output and purify water to help the world reach 2015 goals of curbing poverty, according to a report on Tuesday. >> Read the Full Article
EU Considers Suspending U.S. Corn Gluten Imports in Biotech Dispute
The European Union is considering suspending imports of corn gluten animal feed from the United States worth 347 million euros ($450 million) a year after shipments of an unauthorized genetically modified corn were sent to the EU, a spokesman said Monday. >> Read the Full Article
Japanese Whaling Ships Leave for Controversial Research Hunt off Northern Coast
Six ships left a port in northern Japan on Monday for a whale hunt in an offshore research program that critics have denounced as a cover for commercial whaling. >> Read the Full Article
Drug-Resistant Bacteria Persist in Chicken
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria continued to be found in chickens bought at area supermarkets a year after two large poultry producers stopped using an antibiotic blamed for creating the resistant strains, Johns Hopkins researchers report. >> Read the Full Article
EPA Cancels Proposed Study that Would Have Exposed Children to Pesticides
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head. >> Read the Full Article
DuPont Shareholder Seeks Disclosure of Expenses on Chemical Being Studied by EPA
A DuPont Co. shareholder wants the chemical maker to disclose legal fees and other expenses for a chemical that is used to make the nonstick substance Teflon and is being studied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a possible carcinogen. >> Read the Full Article
States Ask Court to Force EPA Action on Greenhouse Gases
A coalition of 12 states and several cities asked a federal appeals court Friday to make the Environmental Protection Agency reconsider its decision not to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases as air pollutants. >> Read the Full Article
New Cotton Fabric May Absorb Toxins
Cotton, the fabric of your life, could soon have the potential to save it. Scientists at Texas Tech University's Institute of Environmental and Human Health on Monday unveiled a new composite cotton fabric they say will protect against biological and chemical agents. >> Read the Full Article
E-mails Appear to Show Yucca Mountain Scientists Planning to Make up Data
E-mails by several government scientists on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project suggest workers were planning to fabricate records and manipulate results to ensure outcomes that would help the project move forward. >> Read the Full Article