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  Sea Shepherd Targets Ocean Criminals With ‘Age of Union’ Ship

  January 10, 2022 Comments Off on Sea Shepherd Targets Ocean Criminals With ‘Age of Union’ Ship

  MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, January 10, 2022 (ENS) – The movement to protect marine wildlife took a giant a leap forward this week as a brand new nonprofit environmental organization, the Age of Union Alliance, announced [...]

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  IOWA: Sioux City Sued Over Fraudulent Wastewater Treatment

  January 9, 2022 Comments Off on IOWA: Sioux City Sued Over Fraudulent Wastewater Treatment

  DES MOINES, Iowa, January 9, 2022 (ENS) – The state of Iowa filed a lawsuit Friday against the city of Sioux City, alleging that it misled state officials by manipulating test results and discharging polluted [...]

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  Even Bleached-out Coral Reefs Can Yield Nutritious Seafood

  January 9, 2022 Comments Off on Even Bleached-out Coral Reefs Can Yield Nutritious Seafood

  LANCASTER, UK, January 9, 2022 (ENS) – Coral reefs damaged by rising ocean temperatures appear to be more resilient than scientists have realized. An international team studying damaged reefs has discovered an unexpected bright spot [...]

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  Green Values Shape Germany’s 2022 Government

  January 8, 2022 Comments Off on Green Values Shape Germany’s 2022 Government

  BERLIN, Germany, January 8, 2022 (ENS) – In Germany’s September 2021 federal election, voters supported the Greens at historic levels, and Germany became the sixth and largest European Union Member State to have Green Party [...]

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  MASSACHUSETTS: Sticks With California Clean Trucks Regulation

  January 7, 2022 Comments Off on MASSACHUSETTS: Sticks With California Clean Trucks Regulation

  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 Secretary of the Commonwealth’s office [...]

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  Australia Links Increasing Megafires to Climate Change

  January 6, 2022 Comments Off on Australia Links Increasing Megafires to Climate Change

  CANBERRA, Australia, January 6, 2022 (ENS) – Climate change has driven a measurable increase in Australia’s forest fire activity over the last 30 years, finds new research conducted by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. […]

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  Philippines Super Typhoon Triggers Mounting Health Crisis

  January 6, 2022 Comments Off on Philippines Super Typhoon Triggers Mounting Health Crisis

  MANILA, Philippines, January 6, 2022 (ENS) – A health crisis is gathering strength in the eastern Philippines after Super Typhoon Rai, locally called Odette, destroyed hospitals and affected more than 7.3 million people across the [...]

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  World’s Largest Free Trade Agreement Takes Effect

  January 5, 2022 Comments Off on World’s Largest Free Trade Agreement Takes Effect

  CANBERRA, Australia, January 4, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s largest free trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, RCEP, entered into force on Saturday, January 1, giving 15 countries around the Pacific Rim access [...]

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  Norway Builds World’s First Emissions-free Container Ship

  January 5, 2022 Comments Off on Norway Builds World’s First Emissions-free Container Ship

  OSLO, Norway, January 5, 2022 (ENS) – Norway’s new Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has taken a guided tour of the world’s first electric, self-propelled container ship, the Yara Birkeland, calling it, “The ship that [...]

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  TEXAS: Hottest December On Record In 130+ Years

  January 5, 2022 Comments Off on TEXAS: Hottest December On Record In 130+ Years

  COLLEGE STATION, Texas, January 5, 2022 (ENS) – Last month Texas experienced its warmest December on record since 1889, says John Nielsen-Gammon, a regents professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University who also serves [...]

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  LOUISIANA: Oil Co. Fined for Longest-Running U.S. Oil Spill

  January 3, 2022 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Oil Co. Fined for Longest-Running U.S. Oil Spill

  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 3, 2022 (ENS) – A Louisiana oil and gas company, has agreed to turn over all its remaining assets to the United States to resolve its liability for an oil spill [...]

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  Philippines Face Holiday Recovery From Typhoon ‘Odette’

  December 25, 2021 Comments Off on Philippines Face Holiday Recovery From Typhoon ‘Odette’

  MANILA, Philippines, December 25, 2021 (ENS) – More than 100 towns in areas devastated a week ago by Typhoon Odette, internationally known as Typhoon Rai, have no electricity this Christmas. Communities hit hardest by the [...]

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  Women Sweep UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth Awards

  December 23, 2021 Comments Off on Women Sweep UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth Awards

  NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2021 (ENS) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been awarded the 2021 Champions of the Earth Award, the United Nations’ highest environmental honor, for her policy leadership. Mottley heads the [...]

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  Italy to Ban Fur Farming, Fur Growers Will Be Compensated

  December 21, 2021 Comments Off on Italy to Ban Fur Farming, Fur Growers Will Be Compensated

  ROME, Italy, December 21, 2021 (ENS) – The Budget Committee of the Italy’s Senate today voted to approve an amendment to the budget law which will see the country’s 10 remaining mink fur farms closed [...]

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  ILLINOIS: Alcoa Must Do $4M Cleanup of Old Aluminum Plant

  December 20, 2021 Comments Off on ILLINOIS: Alcoa Must Do $4M Cleanup of Old Aluminum Plant

  EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois, December 20, 2021 (ENS) – Alcoa Corporation and Howmet Aerospace, successors to Alcoa Incorporated, and the City of East St. Louis will clean up hazardous waste disposal sites surrounding Alcoa’s former [...]

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  U.S. EPA Issues Strictest-Ever GHG Emissions Standards

  December 20, 2021 Comments Off on U.S. EPA Issues Strictest-Ever GHG Emissions Standards

  WASHINGTON, DC, December 20, 2021 (ENS) – The strongest vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards ever established for the U.S. light-duty vehicle sector were set today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for vehicles sold in [...]

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  Unilever Uses 1st Product Bottles Made of Paper, Not Plastic

  December 15, 2021 Comments Off on Unilever Uses 1st Product Bottles Made of Paper, Not Plastic

  LONDON, UK, December 15, 2021 (ENS) – The British multinational consumer goods company Unilever is using a new technology to create the first paper-based laundry detergent bottle made of sustainably sourced pulp and designed to [...]

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  Europe Defines Fair, Inclusive Shift to Climate Neutrality

  December 14, 2021 Comments Off on Europe Defines Fair, Inclusive Shift to Climate Neutrality

  BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 14, 2021 (ENS) – Today, the European Commission issued policy guidance for a “fair and inclusive transition towards climate neutrality” to complement the package on delivering the European Green Deal presented in [...]

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  NEVADA: Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Feds Killing Native Wildlife

  December 13, 2021 Comments Off on NEVADA: Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Feds Killing Native Wildlife

  RENO, Nevada, December 13, 2021 (ENS) – Conservation groups WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services in Nevada over their plans to kill thousands [...]

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  Tornadoes Claim 80+ Lives Across Six U.S. States

  December 11, 2021 Comments Off on Tornadoes Claim 80+ Lives Across Six U.S. States

  WASHINGTON, DC, December 11, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration requested by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear today after more than 30 tornadoes swept across Midwestern and Southern states overnight, claiming [...]

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  World’s Tigers Vanishing Into Tiger Bone Glue Pots

  December 10, 2021 Comments Off on World’s Tigers Vanishing Into Tiger Bone Glue Pots

  COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 10, 2021 (ENS) – More tigers now live in illegal captivity on so-called tiger farms than in the wild, raised from cubs as livestock, and slaughtered when mature to harvest their skeletons [...]

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  U.S. Navy Fuel Tanks Leak Into Oahu Drinking Water

  December 10, 2021 Comments Off on U.S. Navy Fuel Tanks Leak Into Oahu Drinking Water

  HONOLULU, Hawaii, December 9, 2021 (ENS) – Hawaii’s entire Congressional delegation is calling on Governor David Ige to request that President Joe Biden declare an emergency and direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step [...]

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  HAWAII: Endangered Honeycreeper Rescued From Malarial Forest

  December 9, 2021 Comments Off on HAWAII: Endangered Honeycreeper Rescued From Malarial Forest

  KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, December 9, 2021 (ENS) – An ambitious effort to rescue four tiny birds deep in a thick Hawaiian rainforest saw its first taste of success last weekend, giving hope for the survival [...]

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  Pipeline Company Fined $15M for Largest U.S. Inland Oil Spill

  December 8, 2021 Comments Off on Pipeline Company Fined $15M for Largest U.S. Inland Oil Spill

  WILLISTON, North Dakota, December 8, 2021 (ENS) – The pipeline company responsible for the discharge of 29 million gallons of oil-contaminated produced water – a waste product of hydraulic fracturing – has been sentenced to [...]

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  Indonesia’s Volcanic Mt. Semeru Claims 22 Lives, Erupts Again

  December 6, 2021 Comments Off on Indonesia’s Volcanic Mt. Semeru Claims 22 Lives, Erupts Again

  JAKARTA, Indonesia, December 6, 2021 (ENS) – Mt. Semeru, the tallest mountain on the Indonesian island of Java, erupted Saturday, killing at least 22 people, and again today, sending pillars of hot ash skyward to [...]

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  NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND: Offshore Wind Will Power 70,000 Homes

  December 5, 2021 Comments Off on NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND: Offshore Wind Will Power 70,000 Homes

  WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2021 (ENS) – The construction and operations of the South Fork Wind power project offshore Rhode Island and New York has been approved by the Department of the Interior, DOI, as [...]

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  OREGON: Crews At Work on Deep Water Wave Energy Test Site

  December 4, 2021 Comments Off on OREGON: Crews At Work on Deep Water Wave Energy Test Site

  By Benjamin Seidman NEWPORT, Oregon, December 4, 2021 (ENS) – On the central Oregon coast, a first-of-its-kind $80 million wave energy testing facility is under construction. “This is the first time a lease has been [...]

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  Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

  December 3, 2021 Comments Off on Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

  VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan in Argonaut Creek in central [...]

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  NEW YORK: Conspiracy to Evade Asbestos Regs Exposes Crimes

  December 3, 2021 Comments Off on NEW YORK: Conspiracy to Evade Asbestos Regs Exposes Crimes

  BINGHAMTON, New York, December 2, 2021 (ENS) – Two convicted asbestos criminals will be jailed and fined nearly $400,000 for exposing their workers and the surrounding community to the risk of diseases caused by asbestos [...]

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  Junk Food Has a Higher Carbon Footprint Than Nutritious Food

  December 2, 2021 Comments Off on Junk Food Has a Higher Carbon Footprint Than Nutritious Food

  LEEDS, UK, December 2, 2021 (ENS) Cutting out that sugary morning pastry and those fries for lunch might help fight the climate crisis, new research from the University of Leeds has concluded. Many less nutritious [...]