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Month: February 2022

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Police, Diplomats Form United Front for Endangered Wildlife

February 12, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Police, Diplomats Form United Front for Endangered Wildlife

BEIJING, China, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – The endangered animals and plants protected by the global treaty known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, now have [...]

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ARIZONA: Copper Mine Proposal Looms Over Sacred Apache Site

February 11, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on ARIZONA: Copper Mine Proposal Looms Over Sacred Apache Site

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s two largest mining companies are pressing their proposal to mine for copper beneath a site most sacred to the San Carlos [...]

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ArcelorMittal, France Invest Billions in Low-Emissions Steel

February 11, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on ArcelorMittal, France Invest Billions in Low-Emissions Steel

DUNKIRK, France, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal, based in Luxembourg, is decarbonizing its factories in France and has attracted the financial support of the French Government to [...]

Land Use/Forests

Salt Intrusion Threatens Vital American Coastal Wetlands

February 11, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Salt Intrusion Threatens Vital American Coastal Wetlands

By Benjamin Seidman

CHESAPEAKE BAY, Maryland, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – In the eternal struggle between the ebb and flow of tides, high tides now have the upper hand as [...]

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LOWER 48: Judge Restores Protection to Endangered Gray Wolves

February 10, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on LOWER 48: Judge Restores Protection to Endangered Gray Wolves

OAKLAND, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Today, a federal judge in California overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s November 2020 decision to delist wolves from the Endangered Species [...]

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NEW HAMPSHIRE: Rewards Sustainable Craft Beverage Brewers

February 10, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on NEW HAMPSHIRE: Rewards Sustainable Craft Beverage Brewers

CONCORD, New Hampshire, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has joined the New Hampshire Brewers Association to open a new program honoring environmental leaders [...]

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USA and China Create World’s First Green Shipping Corridor

February 10, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on USA and China Create World’s First Green Shipping Corridor

LOS ANGELES, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Los Angeles and Shanghai have initiated a partnership of cities, ports, shipping companies, and cargo owners in China and the United States [...]

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MINNESOTA: Climate Change Melts Lakes Once Famed for Icy Sports

February 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on MINNESOTA: Climate Change Melts Lakes Once Famed for Icy Sports

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 7, 2022 (ENS) – “From shorter winter ice seasons to shifting fish populations, climate change is transforming Minnesota lakes as we know them,” the Minnesota Pollution [...]

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Climate Change Forces Rapid Melt of Earth’s Highest Glacier

February 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Forces Rapid Melt of Earth’s Highest Glacier

WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – The highest glacier on Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, “may already be a relic from an older, colder, time,” says the scientist [...]

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TEXAS: Cuts Back on Air Monitoring After Natural Disasters

February 6, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on TEXAS: Cuts Back on Air Monitoring After Natural Disasters

AUSTIN, Texas, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, has decided it is “unnecessary” to deploy agency personnel “to conduct prolonged handheld air quality and [...]

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Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill

February 6, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill

By Benjamin Seidman

BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a [...]

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MICHIGAN: State, US EPA Act on Strategy to Clear Detroit Air

February 5, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on MICHIGAN: State, US EPA Act on Strategy to Clear Detroit Air

DETROIT, Michigan, February 5, 2022 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced a formal determination that the Detroit area did not attain the sulfur dioxide air quality [...]

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Thailand to Sue as Oil Spill Contaminates Popular Beach

February 4, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Thailand to Sue as Oil Spill Contaminates Popular Beach

BANGKOK, Thailand, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster-hit area on Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of [...]

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PENNSYLVANIA: Gas Pipeline Explodes, Criminal Charges Filed

February 4, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on PENNSYLVANIA: Gas Pipeline Explodes, Criminal Charges Filed

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, February 4, 2022 (ENS) – Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has charged ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer, with nine counts of environmental crimes [...]

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Pipeline Break Spills Oil Into Amazon Rainforest Reserve

February 4, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Pipeline Break Spills Oil Into Amazon Rainforest Reserve

QUITO, Ecuador, February 4, 2022 (ENS) – An oil spill has contaminated a protected area of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon and polluted the Coca River that supplies water to [...]

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Oil Ship Explodes in Nigeria Emitting Clouds of Black Smoke

February 3, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Oil Ship Explodes in Nigeria Emitting Clouds of Black Smoke

ABUJA, Nigeria, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – The floating production, storage and offloading vessel Trinity Spirit exploded and sank early Wednesday morning at the Ukpokiti Terminal, around Excravos, Warri South-west, [...]

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World Wetlands Day: Guarding the ‘Most Threatened Ecosystem’

February 2, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on World Wetlands Day: Guarding the ‘Most Threatened Ecosystem’

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) – In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 [...]

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