President Trump Alligator Alcatraz
Land Use/Forests

Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days

MIAMI, Florida, August 23, 2025 (ENS) – A federal judge has ordered the State of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass detention center in the Big Cypress National Preserve known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” […]

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Latest News

World’s First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – “Ultimately, I have heard from every country here in this room that you want to end plastic pollution. You want a deal,” Inger Andersen, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, told delegates Friday as the latest talks to forge an international legally binding plastics treaty to halt pollution broke down in frustration. […]

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Gov/Politics

U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing and retiring thousands of workers as part of a “reduction in force” as the agency continues its “comprehensive restructuring efforts” by closing the EPA Office of Research and Development, commonly called ORD. […]

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Food

SA’s New Live-animal Export Rules: Just Window Dressing?

PRETORIA, South Africa, August 7, 2025 (ENS) – The controversial debate on whether the live-animal export trade can ever be humane – or should be banned altogether – has been reopened by the Department of Agriculture’s release of draft regulations governing the export of live animals by sea. […]