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  UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit

  September 25, 2023 Comments Off on UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit

  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 [...]

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  California Sues Big Oil for Decades of Climate Deception

  September 19, 2023 Comments Off on California Sues Big Oil for Decades of Climate Deception

  OAKLAND, California, September 18, 2023 (ENS) – Alleging decades-long campaigns of deception and statewide climate change-related damage in California, the State Friday filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies: [...]

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  Biden Admin Invests $100 Million in Recycling Infrastructure

  September 14, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Admin Invests $100 Million in Recycling Infrastructure

  WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is receiving more than $100 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand recycling infrastructure and waste management systems across [...]

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  A World First: High Seas Treaty Signed By 80 Governments

  September 12, 2023 Comments Off on A World First: High Seas Treaty Signed By 80 Governments

  NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – The hard-won High Seas Treaty, the first agreement to protect the two-thirds of the world’s oceans beyond national jurisdiction, was opened for signature by United Nations [...]

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  Invasive Aliens Blamed for 60% of Plant, Animal Extinctions

  September 5, 2023 Comments Off on Invasive Aliens Blamed for 60% of Plant, Animal Extinctions

  BONN, Germany, September 5, 2023 (ENS) – Invasive alien species pose a “severe global threat that is underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged,” finds a new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, [...]

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  Hurricane Politics: Biden Funds Florida Aid Despite Rude DeSantis

  September 2, 2023 Comments Off on Hurricane Politics: Biden Funds Florida Aid Despite Rude DeSantis

  LIVE OAK, Florida, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – President Joe Biden saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia’s impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering [...]

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  OREGON: Judge Rules for Conservation Groups, Old-Growth Trees

  September 2, 2023 Comments Off on OREGON: Judge Rules for Conservation Groups, Old-Growth Trees

  PENDLETON, Oregon, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – A Trump-era change in U.S. Forest Service regulations that permitted the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates three separate laws, a federal judge in Oregon [...]

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  TEXAS: Japanese Crane Maker Fined $40M for Clean Air Crimes

  September 2, 2023 Comments Off on TEXAS: Japanese Crane Maker Fined $40M for Clean Air Crimes

  PORT ARTHUR, Texas, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – The Justice Department announced Thursday that Japan-based Tadano Ltd. and its subsidiaries, known as the Tadano Group, will pay a $40 million civil penalty to resolve allegations [...]

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  U.S. Stock Market Regulators Embroiled in Climate Debate

  August 28, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Stock Market Regulators Embroiled in Climate Debate

  WASHINGTON, DC, August 28, 2023 (ENS) – Actions long urged by environmental activists and scientific institutions alike to require corporate disclosures of carbon emissions and limits to those emissions are now, at long last, being [...]

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  Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric for Sparking Deadly Fires

  August 25, 2023 Comments Off on Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric for Sparking Deadly Fires

  KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 25, 2023 (ENS) – Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Maui Electric Co., Thursday, alleging civil damages from the deadly August 8 fires in Lahaina. The [...]

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  Biden’s Maui Prayer: May He Hold You in the Palm of His Hand

  August 22, 2023 Comments Off on Biden’s Maui Prayer: May He Hold You in the Palm of His Hand

  LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Governor Josh Green, M.D., and First Lady Jaime Kanani Green accompanied President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, [...]

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  Biased Data Yield Flawed AI Weather Forecasts for Global South

  August 22, 2023 Comments Off on Biased Data Yield Flawed AI Weather Forecasts for Global South

  NAIROBI, Kenya, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Biased data being fed into artificial intelligence tools are producing unreliable weather predictions, climate and AI researchers are warning. They say developing countries are at greatest risk of [...]

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  Maui Fires Claim 106 Lives, Search Continues Recovery Begins

  August 16, 2023 Comments Off on Maui Fires Claim 106 Lives, Search Continues Recovery Begins

  LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 16, 2023 (ENS) – At least 106 people have died in the flames that consumed the historic town of Lahaina and other parts of Maui, and hundreds of people are still [...]

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  NEW MEXICO: Mewbourne Oil Spends $10M to Meet Clean Air Regs

  August 16, 2023 Comments Off on NEW MEXICO: Mewbourne Oil Spends $10M to Meet Clean Air Regs

  TYLER, Texas, August 16, 2023 (ENS) – An independent oil and gas producer in the Permian Basin, a shale oil and gas producing area in southeast New Mexico and West Texas, has agreed to pay [...]

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  Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope

  August 11, 2023 Comments Off on Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope

  BELEM, Brazil, August 11, 2023, (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week hosted a two-day regional summit of the eight Amazon River basin countries seeking a plan to save the world’s [...]

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  New Monument Protects Sacred Native Lands Near Grand Canyon

  August 10, 2023 Comments Off on New Monument Protects Sacred Native Lands Near Grand Canyon

  TUSAYAN, Arizona, August 10, 2023, (ENS) – President Joe Biden has established a new national monument to protect three areas close to Grand Canyon National Park that the President said, “have been profoundly sacred to [...]

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  Maui Wildfire Death Toll Hits 93, Lahaina Devastated

  August 9, 2023 Comments Off on Maui Wildfire Death Toll Hits 93, Lahaina Devastated

  LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 13, 2023 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Maui County officials said today that the fire death toll from this week’s wildfires in the historic town of Lahaina has risen [...]

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  Kruger Park Lions Being Poisoned by Poachers for Body Parts

  August 6, 2023 Comments Off on Kruger Park Lions Being Poisoned by Poachers for Body Parts

  PRETORIA, South Africa, August 6, 2023 (ENS) – South African National Parks has confirmed that lions have been targeted in a poisoning campaign in northern Kruger Park by poachers seeking the animals’ body parts, presumably [...]

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  Nuclear Experts Probe Russian Threat to Ukranian Power Plant

  August 4, 2023 Comments Off on Nuclear Experts Probe Russian Threat to Ukranian Power Plant

  VIENNA, Austria, August 4, 2023 (ENS) – Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency breathed a sigh of relief when they observed no explosives on the rooftops of nuclear reactor Units 3 and 4 and [...]

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  Renewables Share of U.S. Generating Capacity Sets Records

  August 1, 2023 Comments Off on Renewables Share of U.S. Generating Capacity Sets Records

  “The mix of solar, wind and other renewables is now comfortably out-producing both coal and nuclear power,” concludes Ken Bossong, executive director of the nonprofit Sun Day Campaign’s from his office in Takoma Park, Maryland, [...]

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  New Treatment Approach to Heart Attacks & Strokes Discovered

  July 31, 2023 Comments Off on New Treatment Approach to Heart Attacks & Strokes Discovered

  VIENNA, Austria, July 31, 2023 (ENS) – Scientists from the Medical University of Vienna have described a key molecular pathway that offers new fundamental insights into the atherosclerosis progression and may pave the way for [...]

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  Biden Funds Cooling as Warming Climate Generates Extreme Heat

  July 27, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Funds Cooling as Warming Climate Generates Extreme Heat

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2023 (ENS) – “The existential threat of climate change,” as President Joe Biden called it, was the most urgent issue for the President at the White House and the mayors of [...]

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  VERMONT: Historic Flood Forces Climate Change Recognition

  July 25, 2023 Comments Off on VERMONT: Historic Flood Forces Climate Change Recognition

  MONTPELIER, Vermont, July 25, 2023 (ENS) – Following days of unprecedented rainfall in Vermont from July 9 to 11, major river arteries flooded their banks, causing some rivers in the state to measure about 20 [...]

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  New Underwater AI Bot Detects Illegal Fishing, Reports Fast

  July 25, 2023 Comments Off on New Underwater AI Bot Detects Illegal Fishing, Reports Fast

  SOUTHAMPTON, England, UK, July 25, 2023 (ENS) – British scientists have started work on a new underwater artificial intelligence bot which can detect activities that harm the ocean environment. The bot will be used to [...]

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  Hungry Millions Held Hostage, Black Sea Grain Deal Collapses

  July 23, 2023 Comments Off on Hungry Millions Held Hostage, Black Sea Grain Deal Collapses

  ISTANBUL, Turkiye, July 23, 2023 (ENS) – Intensifying the food insecurity across much of Africa, the Russian government is weaponizing food in its war on Ukraine. Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea Grain deal [...]

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  Fiat Chrysler Exec Admits Conspiring to Violate Clean Air Act

  July 21, 2023 Comments Off on Fiat Chrysler Exec Admits Conspiring to Violate Clean Air Act

  Emanuele Palma, 43, of FCA US, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony of conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act. As alleged in court documents, Palma and others conspired to withhold information from the U.S. [...]

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  FLORIDA: Nopetro Energy Cancels Disputed LNG Export Facility

  July 21, 2023 Comments Off on FLORIDA: Nopetro Energy Cancels Disputed LNG Export Facility

  PORT ST. JOE, Florida, July 21, 2023 (ENS) – Nopetro Energy, the company planning to build a controversial containerized liquified natural gas export facility in Port St. Joe, Florida, says it will “no longer pursue [...]

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  Divesting Fossil Fuels = High Profits, Low Carbon Footprints

  July 21, 2023 Comments Off on Divesting Fossil Fuels = High Profits, Low Carbon Footprints

  WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, July 20, 2023 (ENS) – Six public pension funds in the United States would be $21 billion richer if they had divested from fossil fuels a decade ago, new research from a [...]

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  Sizzling Weather ‘A Vicious Cycle of Spiraling Impacts’

  July 17, 2023 Comments Off on Sizzling Weather ‘A Vicious Cycle of Spiraling Impacts’

  GENEVA, Switzerland, July 17, 2023 (ENS) – “Scorching temperatures are engulfing large parts of the Northern hemisphere, while devastating floods triggered by relentless rainfall have disrupted lives and livelihoods, underscoring the urgent need for more [...]

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  U.S. EPA Toughens Lead Paint Standards to Protect Children

  July 13, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. EPA Toughens Lead Paint Standards to Protect Children

  WASHINGTON, DC, July 13, 2023 (ENS) – To better safeguard children and communities from the harmful effects of exposure to dust generated by lead paint, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen requirements [...]