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  EPA Attacks Forever Chemicals, Emerging Contaminants in Water

  November 20, 2024 Comments Off on EPA Attacks Forever Chemicals, Emerging Contaminants in Water

  WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2024, (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today launched a new, no-cost technical assistance effort focused on reducing exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other emerging contaminants in [...]

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  Biden Offers $45 Million to Slash EV Battery Recycling Costs

  November 20, 2024 Comments Off on Biden Offers $45 Million to Slash EV Battery Recycling Costs

  WASHINGTON DC, November 20, 2024 (ENS) – To improve the economics of recycling end-of-life electric vehicle batteries, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced $44.8 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for eight [...]

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  COP29: World Governments, NGOs, Negotiate to Cool the Planet

  November 15, 2024 Comments Off on COP29: World Governments, NGOs, Negotiate to Cool the Planet

  BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 15, 2024 (ENS) – The year 2024 will break records as the planet’s warmest after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, warns the World Meteorological Organization, as world [...]

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  U.S. EPA Slaps Fee on Wasteful Methane Emissions

  November 12, 2024 Comments Off on U.S. EPA Slaps Fee on Wasteful Methane Emissions

  WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2024 (ENS) – As global leaders gather today in Baku, Azerbaijan for the United Nations annual conference to limit climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delivered a final rule to [...]

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  Future of Earth’s Diverse Species Under Negotiation in Cali

  October 25, 2024 Comments Off on Future of Earth’s Diverse Species Under Negotiation in Cali

  CALI, Colombia, October 25, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity, the United Nations biodiversity summit known as COP16, officially opened in Colombia on Monday, and hopes are high that the [...]

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  Big Meat Recall Affects 200 Products Sold at Major Retailers

  October 17, 2024 Comments Off on Big Meat Recall Affects 200 Products Sold at Major Retailers

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 17, 2024 (ENS) – Nearly 12 million pounds of precooked processed meat and chicken found in salads and frozen foods sold at major retailers and served at restaurants and schools are being [...]

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  USA to Replace All Lead Water Pipes Within 10 Years

  October 12, 2024 Comments Off on USA to Replace All Lead Water Pipes Within 10 Years

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2024 (ENS) – To reduce the poisonous contamination of lead in American drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued the long-awaited final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements measure. As [...]

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  Harris-Trump Disconnect on Climate Is Glaring

  October 8, 2024 Comments Off on Harris-Trump Disconnect on Climate Is Glaring

  The question to you both tonight is what would you do to fight climate change? Vice President Harris, we’ll start with you.” “Well, the former president had said that climate change is a hoax,” Harris [...]

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  PENNSYLVANIA: Three Mile Island Will Restart to Power Microsoft

  October 8, 2024 Comments Off on PENNSYLVANIA: Three Mile Island Will Restart to Power Microsoft

  MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2024 (ENS) – Constellation, an energy company based in Baltimore, Maryland has signed a power purchase agreement with Microsoft that will restore the one undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island [...]

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  Dockworkers & Ports Agree to Pause Strike Until January 2025

  October 4, 2024 Comments Off on Dockworkers & Ports Agree to Pause Strike Until January 2025

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2024 (ENS) – The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. have reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend their current Master Contract until [...]

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  Hurricane Helene Death Toll Above 200, US Southeast Devastated

  September 27, 2024 Comments Off on Hurricane Helene Death Toll Above 200, US Southeast Devastated

  TALLAHASSEE, Florida, October 2, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Helene blasted through the southern United States Thursday night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane, claiming at least 175 lives in six states, and leaving millions still [...]

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  General Motors Signs Solar Deal for Three Assembly Plants

  September 26, 2024 Comments Off on General Motors Signs Solar Deal for Three Assembly Plants

  LANSING, Michigan, September 26, 2024 (ENS) – General Motors has announced a 15-year renewable energy purchase agreement for three vehicle assembly plants. The Michigan-based automaker signed the solar agreement with NorthStar Clean Energy, a unit [...]

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  China Welcomes Outside Scientists at 12 Nuclear Facilities

  September 21, 2024 Comments Off on China Welcomes Outside Scientists at 12 Nuclear Facilities

  VIENNA, Austria, September 21, 2024 (ENS) – China is opening 12 nuclear research facilities and testing platforms to international scientists and institutions to enhance global nuclear cooperation, a senior Chinese official said in Vienna this [...]

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  PUERTO RICO: Two Jailed for Destroying Wetlands in Jobos Bay

  September 20, 2024 Comments Off on PUERTO RICO: Two Jailed for Destroying Wetlands in Jobos Bay

  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, September 20, 2024 (ENS) – It was an unlucky Friday the 13th last week for two Puerto Rican men who were sentenced for their destruction, removal and fill of protected wetlands [...]

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  MARYLAND: U.S. Sues Owner of Baltimore Bridge Ship for $100M

  September 18, 2024 Comments Off on MARYLAND: U.S. Sues Owner of Baltimore Bridge Ship for $100M

  BALTIMORE, Maryland, September 18, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil claim in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Grace Ocean Private Ltd and Synergy Marine Private [...]

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  World Health Organization Asks $135 Million to Defeat Mpox

  August 23, 2024 Comments Off on World Health Organization Asks $135 Million to Defeat Mpox

  GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2024 (ENS) – The current mpox outbreak “can be controlled and can be stopped,” the leader of the World Health Organization, WHO, emphasized on Friday, announcing an action plan that calls [...]

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  Deb Haaland Brings the Turquoise Clan to the DNC Stage

  August 23, 2024 Comments Off on Deb Haaland Brings the Turquoise Clan to the DNC Stage

  CHICAGO, Illinois, August 22, 2024 (ENS) – Deb Haaland brought Indigeneity front and center at the Democratic National Convention on its final night in a speech that presented the case for environmental protections. […]

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  U.S. Awards First Offshore Wind Research Lease to Maine

  August 20, 2024 Comments Off on U.S. Awards First Offshore Wind Research Lease to Maine

  WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2024 (ENS) – The first U.S. floating offshore wind energy research lease was granted to the State of Maine by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM, on Monday. The lease [...]

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  Health Risk to Fetuses Prompts EPA to Ban Toxic Weed Killer

  August 8, 2024 Comments Off on Health Risk to Fetuses Prompts EPA to Ban Toxic Weed Killer

  WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – For the first time in almost 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking the emergency action of suspending all registrations of a pesticide under the federal [...]

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  Mass Coral Bleaching Devastates the Great Barrier Reef

  August 7, 2024 Comments Off on Mass Coral Bleaching Devastates the Great Barrier Reef

  WOLLONGONG, New South Wales, Australia, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – A new 400-year temperature record published today shows the world’s largest coral reef is experiencing catastrophic damage. Warming sea temperatures and repeated mass coral bleaching [...]

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  WASHINGTON: Solar Farm Planned at Old Plutonium Weapons Site

  August 6, 2024 Comments Off on WASHINGTON: Solar Farm Planned at Old Plutonium Weapons Site

  RICHLAND, Washington, August 6, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy is entering negotiations with a Chicago corporation to build one of the largest solar and battery storage energy projects in the nation at [...]

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  IDAHO: Tampering with Diesel Emissions Controls Draws $1M Fine

  August 1, 2024 Comments Off on IDAHO: Tampering with Diesel Emissions Controls Draws $1M Fine

  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 as Gorilla Performance, and owner [...]

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  Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested at Japan’s Request

  July 23, 2024 Comments Off on Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested at Japan’s Request

  NUUK, Greenland, July 23, 2024 (ENS) – On the morning of Sunday, July 21, Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of marine conservation organization Greenpeace, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson [...]

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  ‘Light of the World’ to Be Solar Powered at the Vatican

  July 21, 2024 Comments Off on ‘Light of the World’ to Be Solar Powered at the Vatican

  ROME, Italy, July 21, 2024 (ENS) – Pope Francis has kickstarted the Vatican’s plan to become a solar nation that he detailed in an Apostolic Letter entitled “Fratello sole” or Brother Sun. The plan is [...]

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  NORTH DAKOTA: Illegal Emissions Cost Marathon Oil $241.5 Million

  July 15, 2024 Comments Off on NORTH DAKOTA: Illegal Emissions Cost Marathon Oil $241.5 Million

  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 the company’s oil and gas [...]

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  Climate Change Scorches USA; Extreme Heat Grips 100 Million

  July 6, 2024 Comments Off on Climate Change Scorches USA; Extreme Heat Grips 100 Million

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 6, 2024 (ENS) – Independence Day 2024 will go down in the record books as one of the hottest. In total, more than 100 million people – nearly one in every three [...]

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  Earliest Major Hurricane, Beryl Bludgeons Caribbean, USA Next

  July 4, 2024 Comments Off on Earliest Major Hurricane, Beryl Bludgeons Caribbean, USA Next

  MIAMI, Florida, July 4, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Beryl, now causing havoc across the Caribbean, is the earliest storm on record to hit Category 5 with sustained winds of 157 mph, the highest classification on [...]

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  SCOTUS Decisions Cancel, Imperil Environmental Protections

  July 1, 2024 Comments Off on SCOTUS Decisions Cancel, Imperil Environmental Protections

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 1, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in favor of Corner Post, Inc., a truckstop in rural North Dakota, and other rulings issued last week, alter the statute of [...]

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  ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Wildfires Accelerates Global Warming

  June 25, 2024 Comments Off on ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Wildfires Accelerates Global Warming

  HOBART, Tasmania, Australia, June 25, 2024 (ENS) – Extreme wildfires have more than doubled in frequency and intensity over the past 21 years, according to a global study from the Fire Centre in the School [...]

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  Half the World Obeys Doctors’ Orders to Replace Trans Fats

  June 24, 2024 Comments Off on Half the World Obeys Doctors’ Orders to Replace Trans Fats

  GENEVA, Switzerland, June 24, 2024 (ENS) – Ridding foods of dangerous industrial trans fats requires country-wide best practice policies, and nearly half the world has adopted those policies finds a research report issued by the [...]