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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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  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 [...]

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  French Companies Develop Offshore Green Hydrogen Production

  December 2, 2021 Comments Off on French Companies Develop Offshore Green Hydrogen Production

  PARIS, France, December 2, 2021 (ENS) – The world’s first floating wind turbine with an integrated hydrogen production system onboard has advanced one step closer to realization. Known as the Nerehyd™, the offshore green hydrogen [...]

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  Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

  December 1, 2021 Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

  PARIS, France, December 1, 2021 (ENS) – The first global agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence, AI, was adopted Thursday by 193 countries. All the member states of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural [...]

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  Ultrashort-pulse Laser Makes Short Work of Superbugs

  November 29, 2021 Comments Off on Ultrashort-pulse Laser Makes Short Work of Superbugs

  ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 29, 2021 (ENS) – Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and E. coli, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis [...]

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  Vietnam Cracks Down on Wildlife Trafficking But Crimes Persist

  November 28, 2021 Comments Off on Vietnam Cracks Down on Wildlife Trafficking But Crimes Persist

  LONDON, UK, November 28, 2021 (ENS) – Vietnam needs international help to disrupt the operations of Vietnamese-led wildlife crime syndicates active in Africa and Asia. Despite government efforts to turn the tide of the illegal [...]

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  Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests

  November 26, 2021 Comments Off on Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests

  MEXICO CITY, Mexico, November 26, 2021 (ENS) – Forests in about 15 percent of Mexico’s territory are disappearing due to illegal logging carried out by criminal groups, according to Mexico’s Federal Agency of Environmental Protection [...]

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  CALIFORNIA: Famous Traveling Wolf Hit By Vehicle, Dies

  November 26, 2021 Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Famous Traveling Wolf Hit By Vehicle, Dies

  SACRAMENTO, California, November 26, 2021 (ENS) – A wolf that made national headlines by becoming the first reported wolf on California’s central coast in up to 300 years has died after a vehicle struck him [...]

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  Burning Toxic Firefighting Foam Hazardous to Human Health

  November 22, 2021 Comments Off on Burning Toxic Firefighting Foam Hazardous to Human Health

  WASHINGTON, DC, November 22, 2021 (ENS) – Just a month after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new plan to cope with the wide spread of PFAS, a group of toxic chemicals used to [...]

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  PENNSYLVANIA: Drilling Wastewater Toxics Spread on Dirt Roads

  November 19, 2021 Comments Off on PENNSYLVANIA: Drilling Wastewater Toxics Spread on Dirt Roads

  FARMINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, November 19, 2021 (ENS) – In 2017-18, Farmington Township, a community of about 2,000 in northwestern Pennsylvania became what resident Siri Lawson calls “ground zero” in the debate over using public dirt [...]

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  Trudeau Activates Troops as Floods, Slides Isolate Vancouver

  November 19, 2021 Comments Off on Trudeau Activates Troops as Floods, Slides Isolate Vancouver

  VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, November 19, 2021 (ENS) – Vancouver, Canada’s third-largest city, as well as smaller cities across southern British Columbia are blocked off from the rest of the world, and Canadian Prime Minister [...]

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  WEST VIRGINIA: Clean Water Settlement Protects Potomac River

  November 18, 2021 Comments Off on WEST VIRGINIA: Clean Water Settlement Protects Potomac River

  MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, November 17, 2021 (ENS) –  The largest sewage district in the state, located in West Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley must make improvements to its sewer and stormwater systems worth an estimated $50 million, [...]

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  MAINE: Truck Dealer Caught Installing Illegal ‘Defeat Devices’

  November 15, 2021 Comments Off on MAINE: Truck Dealer Caught Installing Illegal ‘Defeat Devices’

  WINDHAM, Maine, November 15, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with APlus Truck Sales, Inc. of Windham, resolving EPA allegations that from 2017 to 2019, the company tampered with [...]

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  Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations

  November 15, 2021 Comments Off on Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations

  GLASGOW, Scotland, November 15, 2021 (ENS) – Young people have long fought at the forefront of social justice movements and environmental justice is no exception. Youth roles in the battle against climate change were highlighted [...]

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  WASHINGTON: Bayer Fined $62M in School PCB Exposure Case

  November 14, 2021 Comments Off on WASHINGTON: Bayer Fined $62M in School PCB Exposure Case

  MONROE, Washington, November 14, 2021 (ENS) – A jury in King County Superior Court this week awarded $62 million in damages to eight people in King and Snohomish counties harmed by exposure to a toxic [...]

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  OREGON: Enviros, Timber, Fishing Groups Protect Private Forests

  November 14, 2021 Comments Off on OREGON: Enviros, Timber, Fishing Groups Protect Private Forests

  SALEM, Oregon, November 14, 2021 (ENS) – “This is truly an exciting time to be a part of the Oregon forest sector,” said David Bechtold, representative of a coalition of forest companies. “We’re extremely proud [...]

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  COP26 Glasgow ‘Compromise’ Climate Pact Disappoints

  November 13, 2021 Comments Off on COP26 Glasgow ‘Compromise’ Climate Pact Disappoints

  GLASGOW, Scotland, November 13, 2021 (ENS) – The UN climate conference COP26 has wrapped with a deal among the 196 Parties to forestall catastrophic climate change, that hinged on a startling development. Minutes before the [...]

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  COP26 Transport Day Pledges Cover Road, Rail, Air, and Sea

  November 12, 2021 Comments Off on COP26 Transport Day Pledges Cover Road, Rail, Air, and Sea

  GLASGOW, Scotland, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – Transport Day at COP26 on Wednesday was studded with announcements of new initiatives and new funding for the decarbonization of road, rail, air and maritime transport around the [...]

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  ILLINOIS: Diesel Truck and Engine Maker Fined $52 Million

  November 12, 2021 Comments Off on ILLINOIS: Diesel Truck and Engine Maker Fined $52 Million

  LISLE, Illinois, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – Navistar International Corporation, which manufactures trucks and diesel engines in Lisle, has agreed to pay a $52 million civil penalty and mitigate at least 10,000 tons of nitrogen [...]

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  Back-to-back Hurricanes Forecast to Double on U.S. Gulf Coast

  November 11, 2021 Comments Off on Back-to-back Hurricanes Forecast to Double on U.S. Gulf Coast

  WASHINGTON, DC, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – The interval between tropical storms making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been getting shorter over the past 40 years. By the end of the century, Louisiana [...]

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  COP26: US, China Ignore Tensions, Pledge Climate Cooperation

  November 10, 2021 Comments Off on COP26: US, China Ignore Tensions, Pledge Climate Cooperation

  GLASGOW, Scotland, November 10, 2021 (ENS) – Recognizing the “seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis” the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, the United States and China, today issued a surprise joint declaration on upgrading [...]

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  COP26: Climate Activists March Against Net-Zero ‘Greenwash’

  November 7, 2021 Comments Off on COP26: Climate Activists March Against Net-Zero ‘Greenwash’

  GLASGOW, Scotland, November 7, 2021 (ENS) – Thousands marched peacefully in the streets of Glasgow Saturday demanding more funding and action as week one of the UN climate summit here winds down. Civil society representatives [...]