MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 9 -- The Australian Conservation Foundation issued the following news release: Environmental offset schemes are at best ineffective and at worst actively facilitate the decline of threatened species, irreplaceable native habitat and biodiversity, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) warns in a submission to a NSW parliamentary inquiry. Environmental offsets are supposed to compensate for the destruction of habitat by a commercial project, such as a mine, an   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (TNSPol) -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2021: 20 national environmental, public health, and climate advocacy organizations called on Congress to pass the "Climate Test" by putting the country on a clear path to cutting in half planet-warming pollution by 2030. The message to Congress clearly lays out the investments that must be included to achieve this science-backed goal, while also creating good-paying jobs, reducing cos  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis issued the following Beige Book for Sept. 8, 2021: Summary of Economic Activity Economic conditions have continued to improve at a moderate pace since our previous report. Contacts reported that ongoing labor and raw material shortages are holding back growth. Customer spending has been unchanged since the previous report. The rise in COVID-19 Delta variant cases was cited as a reason for increasing consumer wariness. Cost pressures   more

LONDON, England, Sept. 9 (TNSOps) -- Greenpeace UK issued the following news release: In a leaked email seen by Greenpeace UK, three senior ministers, Liz Truss (Secretary of State for International Trade), David Frost (Minister of State for EU Relations) and Kwasi Kwarteng (Secretary of State for Business) are named as agreeing to ditch references to the temperature commitments in the Paris Agreement on climate in order to get the Australian trade deal "over the line". This renders using the t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (TNSPol) -- The League of Conservation Voters issued the following news release: In case you missed it, on Tuesday, a coalition of 20 environmental and public health organizations, including the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), sent a letter to Congress calling on members to pass the "Climate Test," by putting the country on a clear path to cutting in half planet-warming pollution by 2030. The recent devastation our country has seen from extreme weather and wildfires exa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (TNSPol) -- The Natural Resources Defense Council issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2021: NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), together with Sierra Club and the Environmental Integrity Project, sued the Environmental Protection Agency today to force it to fulfill its Clean Air Act obligations and require states to close polluter loopholes in state plans under the Act. Decades-old gaps in the law allow industry to evade responsibility for preventable harm  more

SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 8 (TNSJou) -- Swansea University issued the following news on Sept. 7, 2021: Bird species across the globe are suffering and dying from a type of malaria and, while these strains are not infectious to humans, they're spreading quickly through global transmission hotspots. An international team, including Dr Konstans Wells, who leads the Biodiversity and Health Ecology research group at Swansea University, has been conducting research to understand where and why the diseas  more