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  Hot, Hotter, Hottest July on Record

  August 13, 2021 Comments Off on Hot, Hotter, Hottest July on Record

  ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 13, 2021 (ENS) – July 2021 was the hottest month ever documented on this planet since recordkeeping began 142 years ago, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National [...]

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  NORTH DAKOTA: Pipeline Co. Fined $36M for Huge Fracking Water Spill

  August 12, 2021 Comments Off on NORTH DAKOTA: Pipeline Co. Fined $36M for Huge Fracking Water Spill

  BISMARK, North Dakota, August 12, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal and civil charges under the Clean Water Act against Summit Midstream Partners LLC, a North Dakota pipeline company that [...]

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  MONTANA: Judge Sides With Youth Plaintiffs in Climate Case

  August 11, 2021 Comments Off on MONTANA: Judge Sides With Youth Plaintiffs in Climate Case

  HELENA, Montana, August 11, 2021 (ENS) – Sixteen young Montana residents who are suing the State of Montana for violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment have secured a critical victory when [...]

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  IMF Releases US$650 Billion ‘Shot in the Arm’ for the Global Economy

  August 11, 2021 Comments Off on IMF Releases US$650 Billion ‘Shot in the Arm’ for the Global Economy

  WASHINGTON, DC, August 11, 2021 (ENS) – To address the global need for financial reserves during the current two-pronged public health and resulting financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund’s Board of Governors has approved a [...]

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  Ocean Protection Gets Financial, Technical & Management Talent

  August 9, 2021 Comments Off on Ocean Protection Gets Financial, Technical & Management Talent

  ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 9, 2021 (ENS) – A new ocean conservation initiative is gathering force to protect 18 million square kilometers (seven million square miles) of the ocean over the next five years – an [...]

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  New UN Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity’

  August 9, 2021 Comments Off on New UN Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity’

  GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is widespread and rapidly intensifying, and some of the changes already in motion, such as continued sea level rise, are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of [...]

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  Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody

  August 7, 2021 Comments Off on Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody

  ATHENS, Greece, August 7, 2021 (ENS) – An extensive fire on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece has threatened the site of Ancient Olympia, where the first Olympic Games were held. Today, this is where [...]

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  Biden Drives EV Demand With 2030 Net-Zero Emissions Ambitions

  August 7, 2021 Comments Off on Biden Drives EV Demand With 2030 Net-Zero Emissions Ambitions

  WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden leaves no doubt about his administration’s policy on electric vehicles. “America must lead the world on clean and efficient cars and trucks,” he declared in [...]

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  Upcycling Turns Plastic Waste Into Oils, Foods

  August 5, 2021 Comments Off on Upcycling Turns Plastic Waste Into Oils, Foods

  AMES, Iowa, August 5, 2021 (ENS) – In pursuit of a circular economy that captures waste plastic before it contaminates the environment, scientists are transforming discarded plastic items, originally made from petroleum, right back into [...]

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  Water Crisis Squeezes Lebanon

  August 4, 2021 Comments Off on Water Crisis Squeezes Lebanon

  BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – More than four million people in Lebanon, including a million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing their access to safe water. Amid a rapidly escalating economic crisis, [...]

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  NORTH DAKOTA: State OKs $3M in Drought Relief for Farmers, Ranchers

  August 4, 2021 Comments Off on NORTH DAKOTA: State OKs $3M in Drought Relief for Farmers, Ranchers

  BISMARCK, North Dakota, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – With 98 percent of the state suffering severe extreme, and exceptional drought, the North Dakota State Water Commission has approved two new water supply programs and allocated [...]

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  PENNSYLVANIA: Copper Smelter Fined Again for Polluting Ohio River

  August 4, 2021 Comments Off on PENNSYLVANIA: Copper Smelter Fined Again for Polluting Ohio River

  PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – Hussey Copper, manufacturer of copper for electric power lines and copper-nickel alloys for desalination plants, is being hit with a second big fine for releasing toxics into local [...]

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  COLORADO: Mudslides After Wildfire Trap Motorists, Close Highway

  August 4, 2021 Comments Off on COLORADO: Mudslides After Wildfire Trap Motorists, Close Highway

  GOLDEN, Colorado, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – Mudslides stranded motorists overnight Thursday and shut down an interstate highway in Colorado, and after the latest round of heavy rain and flooding Saturday night, the state is [...]

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  Watertech Startup Products Make Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide

  August 4, 2021 Comments Off on Watertech Startup Products Make Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide

  TZUR HADASSAH, Israel, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – BlueGreen Water Technologies, Ltd., a global watertech company that provides innovative solutions to toxic algae blooms, has been named the Global Water Awards 2021 Breakthrough Technology Company [...]

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  Rare, Exceptional Places Chosen for World Heritage Status

  August 3, 2021 Comments Off on Rare, Exceptional Places Chosen for World Heritage Status

  PARIS, France, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – Sheltering endangered animals, birds and butterflies, giant trees, pristine waters – five natural sites are so precious to the world that they deserve the protection of World Heritage [...]

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  Abandoned Tanker Sinks Off Yemen, Oil Leak Hits Nature Reserve

  July 27, 2021 Comments Off on Abandoned Tanker Sinks Off Yemen, Oil Leak Hits Nature Reserve

  ADEN, Yemen, July 27, 2021 (ENS) – A long-abandoned oil tanker has sunk off the south coast of Yemen near the Port of Aden in the Gulf of Aden leaving an oil slick for 20 [...]

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  U.S. Invests $60 Million to Train Clean Energy Workforce

  July 26, 2021 Comments Off on U.S. Invests $60 Million to Train Clean Energy Workforce

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2021 (ENS) – A total of $60 million will be going to 32 institutions of higher education located in 28 states to set up and operate regional Industrial Assessment Centers, the [...]

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  International Police Seize 15,000+ Tons Illegal Food, Beverages

  July 23, 2021 Comments Off on International Police Seize 15,000+ Tons Illegal Food, Beverages

  LYON, France, July 23, 2021 (ENS) – A 72-country law enforcement operation jointly coordinated by Interpol and Europol has uncovered “vast quantities” of illicit food and beverage products circulating throughout the global economy. […]

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  Satellites Detect Illegal Gold Mining in Peruvian Amazon

  July 23, 2021 Comments Off on Satellites Detect Illegal Gold Mining in Peruvian Amazon

  LIMA, Peru, July 23, 2021 (ENS) – Illegal gold mining is a widespread problem in the southern Peruvian Amazon; in the Madre de Dios region it has caused both river contamination and extensive deforestation. […]

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  Oregon Seabird Wins Endangered Status Protection from Logging, Climate

  July 22, 2021 Comments Off on Oregon Seabird Wins Endangered Status Protection from Logging, Climate

  SALEM, Oregon, July 22, 2021 (ENS) – A rare seabird that feeds offshore but nests in mossy, coastal old-growth forests has just been listed as Endangered in Oregon. With this action, the marbled murrelet is [...]

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  ILLINOIS: Residents Sue for Damages as Raw Sewage Floods Homes

  July 21, 2021 Comments Off on ILLINOIS: Residents Sue for Damages as Raw Sewage Floods Homes

  CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Illinois, July 21, 2021 (ENS) – The community group Centreville Citizens for Change and 24 individual residents are suing Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District and the City of Cahokia Heights in federal [...]

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  CALIFORNIA: Fires Force Utility to Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines

  July 21, 2021 Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Fires Force Utility to Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines

  CHICO, California, July 21, 2021 (ENS) – Pacific Gas and Electric Company, PG&E, is implementing a new initiative to expand the undergrounding of electric distribution power lines in High Fire Threat Districts. The goal is [...]

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  Biden Protects World’s Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest

  July 19, 2021 Comments Off on Biden Protects World’s Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2021 (ENS) – Across the entire 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, full Roadless Rule protections are being restored and there will be an end to [...]

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  Biden, Merkel Ink U.S.-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership

  July 15, 2021 Comments Off on Biden, Merkel Ink U.S.-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 15, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel today at the White House launched the U.S.-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership during her farewell visit to the United States [...]

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  Floods Claim 170+ Lives in Germany, Belgium, as Waters Start to Recede

  July 15, 2021 Comments Off on Floods Claim 170+ Lives in Germany, Belgium, as Waters Start to Recede

  BERLIN, Germany, July 17, 2021 (ENS) – While Germany’s death toll from pounding rain and severe flooding stood at 67 on July 15, an official update on Saturday, July 17, shows the death toll up [...]

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  OREGON: Uncontained Bootleg Fire Threatens California Power Supply

  July 13, 2021 Comments Off on OREGON: Uncontained Bootleg Fire Threatens California Power Supply

  MEDFORD, Oregon, July 12, 2021 (ENS) – Members of the public cannot fly drones near the exploding Bootleg Fire on the Fremont-Winema National Forest and on private lands in southern Oregon, the U.S. Forest Service [...]

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  Cash Prizes to Reward Best Photos of European Climate Change

  July 11, 2021 Comments Off on Cash Prizes to Reward Best Photos of European Climate Change

  COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 11, 2021 (ENS) – The European Environment Agency is inviting photographers to capture what climate change looks like in Europe and how Europeans are coping with it by entering the photo contest [...]

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  NEW YORK: Apartment Building Owners Offered Help to Lower CO2 Emissions

  July 9, 2021 Comments Off on NEW YORK: Apartment Building Owners Offered Help to Lower CO2 Emissions

  ALBANY, New York, July 9, 2021 (ENS) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is adding nearly $8 million to the financial and technical resources available to owners or managers of multifamily buildings so they can [...]

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  Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste

  July 9, 2021 Comments Off on Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste

  GENEVA, Switzerland, July 9, 2021 (ENS) – Effective, binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical [...]

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  Europe Plans to Ban Cages for Farm Animals

  July 9, 2021 Comments Off on Europe Plans to Ban Cages for Farm Animals

  BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 9, 2021 (ENS) – The European Commission has agreed to phase out cages for farmed animals across Europe in response to the “End the Cage Age,” campaign of a European Citizens’ Initiative, [...]