CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 6, 2023 (ENS) – South Africa’s National Assembly has passed the country’s first Climate Change Bill over objections from two political parties – the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters and the conservative African Christian Democratic Party. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 1, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced nearly $128 million to fund 186 projects across the country that advance environmental justice as part […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 30, 2023 (ENS) – The World Bank and the world’s nine multilateral development banks are moving to strengthen their cooperation so they can fast-track solutions to problems in the lives of developing country residents. […]
ACAPULCO, Mexico, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – Hurricane Otis slammed into the beach resort city of Acapulco as a Category 5 storm early Wednesday, claiming the lives of at least 27 people and leaving four others still missing, numbers that have remained unchanged for the past 24 hours… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. defense and space agencies are moving quickly toward the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket, NTR. […]
BERKELEY, California, October 26, 2023 (ENS) – Wild animals across every continent are contaminated with flame retardant chemicals, according to a new map tracking peer-reviewed research studies worldwide. The more than 150 species of polluted wildlife mapped include penguins, killer whales, red pandas, chimpanzees and other endangered species. […]
DEARBORN, Michigan, October 23, 2023 (ENS) – Two federal agencies are modifying a 2015 legal agreement the United States and State of Michigan made with AK Steel to resolve Clean […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, October 11, 2023 (ENS) – Two years after the World War II-era Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility began leaking jet fuel into Honolulu’s drinking water, the U.S. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – Two huge disasters have hit northern African countries in the past month – a major earthquake in Morocco and devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed… […]
ROSEBURG, Oregon, October 8, 2023 (ENS) – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife filed a $27.6 million claim for recovery of damages Friday in Douglas County Circuit Court against […]
WHEELING, West Virginia, October 7, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department, working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of West Virginia, has reached a proposed consent […]
LANSING, Michigan, October 7, 2023 (ENS) – A coalition of more than 60 Tribal Nations from across the U.S. Midwest and Canada, led by the Bay Mills Indian Community, has […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2023 (ENS) – On his Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, one of the first things Joe Biden did as President was to deliver a Proclamation lifting his predecessor’s 2019 declaration of an emergency at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, used to justify building a border wall. […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 4, 2023 (ENS) – Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs said Monday that the Arizona State Land Commission is ending leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2023 (ENS) – The Enforcement Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Monday cracked down on the publicly traded Dish Network Corporation over the TV and technology company’s failure “to properly deorbit” its EchoStar-7 satellite at the end of its mission. The EchoStar-7 was used to carry Dish’s direct broadcast satellite service. […]
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 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message – you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. […]
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: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP, and the trade association the American Petroleum Institute. […]
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 the country. These funds will be EPA’s largest recycling investment in 30 years. […]
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 Member States on September 20 at UN Headquarters in New York. Signing up enthusiastically, 80 countries and the European Union indicated their support […]
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