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  Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

  March 30, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 26, 2023 (ENS) – At the White House Conservation in Action Summit Tuesday, President Joe Biden established two new national monuments, one in Nevada and one in Texas, protecting over half a [...]

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  Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

  March 28, 2023 Comments Off on Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

  KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 28 (ENS) – Yet another suspected poacher has died in a hail of bullets fired by unknown gunmen in the eastern province of Mpumalanga’s landscape of fear. Clyde Mnisi, [...]

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  Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

  March 27, 2023 Comments Off on Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

  VIENNA, Austria, March 27, 2023 (ENS) – International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday to plan protection for the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, [...]

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  COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan

  March 23, 2023 Comments Off on COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan

  CRAIG, Colorado, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The nonprofit Wild Animal Sanctuary has just acquired a large piece of land in northwest Colorado near the historic town of Steamboat Springs and is turning it into [...]

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  LOUISIANA: US Sues Japanese Firm Over Chloroprene Emissions

  March 23, 2023 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: US Sues Japanese Firm Over Chloroprene Emissions

  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – A federal court in Louisiana is being asked to order a Japanese company manufacturing neoprene in the state, to install pollution controls to reduce emissions of chloroprene, [...]

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  MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke Must Spend $27M to Beat Sewage Overflow

  March 23, 2023 Comments Off on MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke Must Spend $27M to Beat Sewage Overflow

  HOLYOKE, Massachusetts, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have entered into a $27 million agreement with the City of Holyoke to reduce overflow [...]

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  OHIO: Norfolk Southern Train Wreck Remediation Makes Progress

  March 21, 2023 Comments Off on OHIO: Norfolk Southern Train Wreck Remediation Makes Progress

  COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted Tuesday issued a letter to Norfolk Southern Corporation President and CEO Alan Shaw in advance of his expected testimony [...]

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  Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

  March 21, 2023 Comments Off on Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

  BLANTYRE, Malawi, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Tropical Cyclone Freddy is a record-breaking storm that has astonished meteorologists with its longevity. As part of its final act, the cyclone unleashed destructive floods and landslides on [...]

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  IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb

  March 20, 2023 Comments Off on IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb

  INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 (ENS) – Global temperatures have already risen to 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy [...]

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  Conservationists Sue to Stop ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Venture

  March 16, 2023 Comments Off on Conservationists Sue to Stop ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Venture

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 16, 2023 (ENS) – Warning that the U.S. government’s environmental review fails to account for the full climate impact of oil development in Alaska, five of America’s largest conservation groups have filed [...]

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  Biden Proposes National Standard for PFAS in Drinking Water

  March 14, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Proposes National Standard for PFAS in Drinking Water

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2023 (ENS) – The today proposed the first national drinking water standard for six harmful “forever chemicals” in the latest action under President Joe Biden’s plan to combat PFAS pollution and [...]

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  Freight Train Derailment Politics

  March 9, 2023 Comments Off on Freight Train Derailment Politics

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw apologized today during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for the February derailment of a Norfolk Southern [...]

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  Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

  March 9, 2023 Comments Off on Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

  SACRAMENTO, California, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Knowing that a series of storms are forecast to continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for later this week, Governor Gavin [...]

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  All Is Not Lost: Pioneering Restorations of the Natural World

  March 1, 2023 Comments Off on All Is Not Lost: Pioneering Restorations of the Natural World

  NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2023 (ENS) – For the first time, the United Nations has recognized 10 trail-blazing efforts from across the globe that are restoring the natural world. Declared World Restoration Flagships, these 10 [...]

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  Facing Major Lawsuit, 3M to Stop Making ‘Forever Chemicals’

  February 9, 2023 Comments Off on Facing Major Lawsuit, 3M to Stop Making ‘Forever Chemicals’

  CHARLESTON, South Carolina, February 9, 2023 (ENS) – The 3M Company, which developed and manufactured firefighting foams containing per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, called “forever chemicals,” is in a legal battle to avoid stiff financial [...]

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  Earthquakes Kill 29,000+, Smash Buildings in Turkiye and Syria

  February 7, 2023 Comments Off on Earthquakes Kill 29,000+, Smash Buildings in Turkiye and Syria

  ANKARA, Turkiye, February 12, 2023 (ENS) – At least 29,600 people have died and thousands of others were injured in 10 provinces after two major earthquakes shook southern Turkiye and surrounding countries on Monday, an [...]

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  OHIO: Freight Train Derailment Threatens Chemical Explosion

  February 6, 2023 Comments Off on OHIO: Freight Train Derailment Threatens Chemical Explosion

  ennsylvania border setting rail cars loaded with hazardous materials aflame on Friday night as the train was carrying chemicals through the village of East Palestine from Madison, Illinois, to Conway, Pennsylvania, the rail company Norfolk [...]

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  EPA Acts to Keep ‘Inactive’ Forever Chemicals Off the Market

  February 3, 2023 Comments Off on EPA Acts to Keep ‘Inactive’ Forever Chemicals Off the Market

  WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2023 (ENS) – They’re called “forever chemicals” for a reason – because they don’t break down in the environment over time. Toxic per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, are the forever chemicals, and [...]

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  Worst Bird Flu Outbreak in U.S. History Kills Millions

  January 31, 2023 Comments Off on Worst Bird Flu Outbreak in U.S. History Kills Millions

  RIVERDALE, Maryland, January 31, 2023 (ENS) – Wild birds and commercially raised chickens alike are dropping dead from bird flu by the millions across the United States. Red-tailed hawks and great horned owls in Wyoming, [...]

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  ALABAMA: Persistent Landfill Fire Prompts State Capitol Rally

  January 25, 2023 Comments Off on ALABAMA: Persistent Landfill Fire Prompts State Capitol Rally

  MOODY, Alabama, January 25, 2023 ENS) – People living near a huge landfill fire in Moody that has been smoldering for more than two months want more environmental protection in Alabama, and they are heading [...]

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  U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to ‘Follow the Money’

  January 25, 2023 Comments Off on U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to ‘Follow the Money’

  PRETORIA, South Africa, January 25, 2023 (ENS) – In her meeting with South African officials today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced a commitment between the U.S. Treasury and South Africa’s National Treasury to form [...]

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  Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO’s Eliminate Date

  January 24, 2023 Comments Off on Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO’s Eliminate Date

  GENEVA, Switzerland, January 24, 2023 (ENS) – Five of every eight people on Earth, five billion people, remain unprotected from harmful trans fats in their food, increasing their risk of heart disease and death, a [...]

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  Davos 2023 a ‘Watershed Moment’ for Climate Accountability

  January 22, 2023 Comments Off on Davos 2023 a ‘Watershed Moment’ for Climate Accountability

  DAVOS, Switzerland, January 22, 2023 (ENS) – On Friday, the final day of panels at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other climate campaigners from the nonprofit she [...]

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  Climate Denier Gosar Rejoins House Natural Resources Committee

  January 18, 2023 Comments Off on Climate Denier Gosar Rejoins House Natural Resources Committee

  WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2023 (ENS) – Ally of industrial development and ex-President Donald Trump, far-right election denier Republican Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona is back on the House Committee on Natural Resources where he [...]

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  Police Detain Greta Thunberg at German Coal Mine Protest

  January 17, 2023 Comments Off on Police Detain Greta Thunberg at German Coal Mine Protest

  LUZERATH, Germany, January 17, 2023 (ENS) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police Tuesday while protesting a coal mine expansion that has emptied a now-abandoned hamlet in western Germany. […]

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  USDA Approves World’s First Honeybee Vaccine

  January 11, 2023 Comments Off on USDA Approves World’s First Honeybee Vaccine

  WASHINGTON, DC, January 11, 2023 (ENS) – The first vaccine for the world’s imperiled honeybees has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for two years on a conditional basis. The vaccine was developed [...]

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  U.S. Agencies to Assess Climate Impact of Federal Projects

  January 9, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Agencies to Assess Climate Impact of Federal Projects

  WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2023 (ENS) – In a new climate change guidance, the Biden Administration asks federal agencies to account for greenhouse gas emissions as they review proposals for clean energy and other infrastructure [...]

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  KANSAS: Keystone Pipeline Spill Cleanup Plan Agreed

  January 9, 2023 Comments Off on KANSAS: Keystone Pipeline Spill Cleanup Plan Agreed

  LENEXA, Kansas, January 9, 2023 (ENS) – Canada’s TC Oil Pipeline Operations Inc. has reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to clean up the large oil spill that occurred December 7 [...]

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  Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two

  January 7, 2023 Comments Off on Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two

  SACRAMENTO, California, January 7, 2023 (ENS) – What the National Weather Service calls an “incessant parade of storms” continues to batter California with heavy rain, damaging winds, and heavy snow. Flooding, rapid river rises, mudslides, [...]

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  Hong Kong Issues Green Bonds to Address Tough Challenges

  January 6, 2023 Comments Off on Hong Kong Issues Green Bonds to Address Tough Challenges

  HONG KONG, January 6, 2023 (ENS) – The Hong Kong government on Thursday announced the successful offering of US$5.75 billion worth of Green Bonds. The triple-currency offering is the largest Environmental, Social, and Governance, ESG, [...]