WASHINGTON, DC, November 9, 2015 (ENS) – New York City, the City of Tampa, Florida, and the State of Wyoming will receive a total of $42 million from the federal government for pilot projects demonstrating next-generation connected vehicle technology. […]
MARIANA, Minas Gerais, Brazil, November 6, 2015 (ENS) – Two people are dead and at least 13 others are missing after two tailings dams collapsed Thursday at an iron mine in the state of Minas Gerais. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 6, 2015 (ENS) – TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is dead, at least for the remainder of President Barack Obama’s term in office. Today, after six years of research and protest demonstrations, Obama denied the project the Presidential Permit it needed to cross the Canada-U.S. border. […]
NGERULMUD, Palau, November 4, 2015 (ENS) – The remote Pacific island nation of Palau has created a new marine sanctuary the size of California that will be the world’s sixth largest protected ocean area, sheltering 1,300 fish species and 700 kinds of coral. […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, November 4, 2015 (ENS) – Mexican copper miner, smelter, and refiner ASARCO must pay more than $163 million to settle U.S. government charges that the company broken the law by releasing hazardous air pollutants. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 3, 2015 (ENS) – TransCanada Corporation requested Monday that the U.S. State Department “pause in its review” of the Presidential Permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline.” Environmentalists are on the verge of declaring victory. […]
LILONGWE, Malawi, November 2, 2015 (ENS) – This year, Malawi experienced exceptionally heavy rains that led to serious flooding in 15 districts. Villages, homes, crops and property were destroyed and lives and livestock lost in this landlocked country in southeast Africa. […]
SAO LUIS, Maranhao, Brazil, November 1, 2015 (ENS) – A stubborn forest fire in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening to consume the forest home of one of the last remaining uncontacted tribes on Earth – the awá-Awá.
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