WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2025 (ENS) – The Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings said Tuesday that it will sell all shares in its subsidiaries Hutchison Port Holdings and Hutchison Port Group Holdings to a consortium that includes the U.S. company BlackRock Inc. in a deal valued at close to US$23 billion that carries $5 billion in debt. […]
BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals making billions in profits every year by destroying nature. […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, December 12, 2024 (ENS) – Greater exposure to long-term air pollution has now been linked with increased risks for blood clots that occur in deep veins. A large, […]
POCATELLO, Idaho, August 1, 2024 (ENS) – A million dollar fine was imposed Tuesday on diesel performance parts retailers GDP Tuning LLC and Custom Auto of Rexburg LLC, doing business […]
BISMARK, North Dakota, July 15, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency have announced a settlement with Marathon Oil Company resolving Clean Air Act violations at […]
CINNCINATI, Ohio, May 19, 2024 (ENS) – Bypassing a vehicle’s emissions components can increase airborne particulate matter up to 40 times, nitrogen oxides 310 times, carbon monoxide 120 times, and […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Final national pollution standards for passenger cars, light- and medium-duty vehicles for upcoming model years 2027 through 2032 were set this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency following an 11-month public consultation process. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 18, 2024 (ENS) – European lawmakers today agreed on emission targets for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from heavy-duty vehicles that will phase out almost all sales of new diesel trucks by 2040. After passenger cars, heavy-duty vehicles are the second biggest transport polluter in Europe. […]
DEARBORN, Michigan, October 23, 2023 (ENS) – Two federal agencies are modifying a 2015 legal agreement the United States and State of Michigan made with AK Steel to resolve Clean […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message – you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. […]
day blocked the departure of the Holland America Lines cruise ship “Zuiderdam” from the port of Rotterdam. The protesters detained the ship by closing off access to the mooring bollards, the tie-up points for mooring lines that anchor vessels safely at their docks. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2023 (ENS) – The benefits of the “most ambitious pollution standards ever,” will top costs by US$1 trillion, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promised Tuesday, announcing new, stricter vehicle pollution standards to make all cars and trucks on U.S. roads cleaner and more efficient. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 17, 2022 (ENS) – In a rare encouraging climate report, the UN’s scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has recognized “increasing evidence of climate action” and held out hope, finding that, “We have options in all sectors to at least halve emissions by 2030.” […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 7, 2022 (ENS) – To reduce transportation emissions and accelerate the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has filed emergency regulations with the […]
WINDHAM, Maine, November 15, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with APlus Truck Sales, Inc. of Windham, resolving EPA allegations that from 2017 to […]
LISLE, Illinois, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – Navistar International Corporation, which manufactures trucks and diesel engines in Lisle, has agreed to pay a $52 million civil penalty and mitigate at […]
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 10, 2021 (ENS) – Recognizing the “seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis” the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, the United States and China, today issued a surprise joint declaration on upgrading their climate action. […]
LONDON, UK, October 7, 2021 (ENS) – Some of the world’s largest mining companies signed a pledge on Tuesday to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 if not sooner. All are members of the London-based International Council on Mining and Metals, ICMM […]
LONDON, UK, September 21, 2021 (ENS) – Targets set by 131 countries as they aim for net-zero carbon emissions could limit global climate change to temperatures close to Paris Agreement goals, finds new research from a team of European scientists. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden signed into law today a Resolution of Disapproval that invalidates the Trump administration’s 2020 Methane Rescission Rule and reinstates two stricter Obama-era methane-emission rules […]
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