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  Biden Pauses Export Approvals for U.S. Liquified Natural Gas

  January 26, 2024 Comments Off on Biden Pauses Export Approvals for U.S. Liquified Natural Gas

  WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2024 (ENS) – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a temporary pause on pending decisions regarding exports of liquefied natural gas, LNG, to countries that do not have free trade agreements with [...]

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  European Union to Phase Out Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks

  January 18, 2024 Comments Off on European Union to Phase Out Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks

  BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 18, 2024 (ENS) – European lawmakers today agreed on emission targets for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from heavy-duty vehicles that will phase out almost all sales of new diesel trucks [...]

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  Stormwater Violations by Solar Farm Builder Draw Big Fines

  January 17, 2024 Comments Off on Stormwater Violations by Solar Farm Builder Draw Big Fines

  SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 17, 2024 (ENS) – Swinerton Builders, a California-based builder of utility-scale solar farms nationwide, has agreed to pay a hefty $2.3 million penalty to settle allegations that through inadequate management of [...]

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  Flooding Congo River Overwhelms Countries on Both Banks

  January 12, 2024 Comments Off on Flooding Congo River Overwhelms Countries on Both Banks

  KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 12, 2024 (ENS) – After two months of heavy rain, the waters of the Congo River have risen higher than anyone has seen them in more than 60 [...]

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  Electric School Buses Have Another Billion-Dollar Year

  January 9, 2024 Comments Off on Electric School Buses Have Another Billion-Dollar Year

  WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2024 (ENS) – Imagine waiting for the school bus – you’re trying to remember algebra for a test, you didn’t get much sleep because of your asthma, and the diesel school [...]

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  WWII Munitions, DDT Remain on Southern California Seafloor

  January 7, 2024 Comments Off on WWII Munitions, DDT Remain on Southern California Seafloor

  SAN DIEGO, California, January 7, 2024 (ENS) – Tons of munitions, petrochemicals, chemicals from manufacturing the pesticide DDT, and other hazardous materials were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los [...]

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  Weak South African Law Allows Mining in Protected Areas

  January 6, 2024 Comments Off on Weak South African Law Allows Mining in Protected Areas

  CAPE TOWN, South Africa, January 6, 2024 (ENS) – South Africa’s limited protected-area estate is increasingly coming under threat from mining. This is facilitated by an enabling regulatory environment that permits mining and related activities [...]

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  CALIFORNIA: Prosecutes Recycling Fraud Felonies Worth $12M

  January 5, 2024 Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Prosecutes Recycling Fraud Felonies Worth $12M

  LOS ANGELES, California, January 5, 2024 (ENS) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced the arrest of the head of a large-scale, multistate recycling fraud ring who stole $4.3 million from the California Recycling [...]

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  Oil, Chemical Firms Pay Millions to Fix Portland Harbor

  December 31, 2023 Comments Off on Oil, Chemical Firms Pay Millions to Fix Portland Harbor

  PORTLAND, Oregon, December 31, 2023 (ENS) – People who eat fish that live year-round in Oregon’s Lower Willamette River are taking a big risk, as these fish contain levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls high enough [...]

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  Cummins Fined Record $1.6B for RAM Emissions Defeat Devices

  December 31, 2023 Comments Off on Cummins Fined Record $1.6B for RAM Emissions Defeat Devices

  COLUMBUS, Indiana, December 31, 2023 (ENS) – Installing emissions defeat devices on hundreds of thousands of engines over the past decade will cost engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. $1.675 billion to settle claims that it violated [...]

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  2023: Earth’s Hottest Year

  December 30, 2023 Comments Off on 2023: Earth’s Hottest Year

  GENEVA, Switzerland, December 30, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 shattered climate records, delivered extreme weather, and left death, devastation and despair in its wake laments the World Meteorological Organization, which has pegged 2023 as [...]

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  Interpol Links Wildlife Smuggling to Organized Crime Groups

  December 29, 2023 Comments Off on Interpol Links Wildlife Smuggling to Organized Crime Groups

  LYON, France, December 29, 2023 (ENS) – Rare live primates, pangolins, birds, and reptiles; body parts from endangered elephants, rhinos, and big cats as well as protected tropical hardwoods have been seized in a joint [...]

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  WYOMING: Chronic Wasting Disease Kills 1st Deer in Yellowstone

  December 29, 2023 Comments Off on WYOMING: Chronic Wasting Disease Kills 1st Deer in Yellowstone

  MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyoming, December 29, 2023 (ENS) – Yellowstone National Park and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department have confirmed the presence of chronic wasting disease, CWD, in the carcass of an adult mule [...]

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  IDAHO: Execs Indicted for Firefighting Fuel Truck Wire Fraud

  December 19, 2023 Comments Off on IDAHO: Execs Indicted for Firefighting Fuel Truck Wire Fraud

  BOISE, Idaho, December 19, 2023 (ENS) – After a court-authorized wiretap investigation, a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, this week charged two executives of competing companies with conspiring to rig bids for forest firefighting [...]

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  COLORADO: Court Rejects Cattlemen’s Attempt to Ban Wolves

  December 18, 2023 Comments Off on COLORADO: Court Rejects Cattlemen’s Attempt to Ban Wolves

  DENVER, Colorado, December 17, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. District Court Judge Regina Rodriguez has denied a request by the Colorado cattle industry to stop imminent wolf reintroductions into the state. Wolves are being reintroduced into [...]

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  COP28 Deal ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Fossil Fuel Era

  December 13, 2023 Comments Off on COP28 Deal ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Fossil Fuel Era

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 13, 2023 – The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, concluded this afternoon with an unprecedented deal among nearly 200 Parties to the Paris Agreement that signals the “beginning [...]

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  COP28: Last Scheduled Day Ends in Limbo

  December 12, 2023 Comments Off on COP28: Last Scheduled Day Ends in Limbo

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 12, 2023 (ENS) – It was nearly midnight on Tuesday, December 12 when all but the few tired delegates intimately involved in the high-stakes international climate talks left the COP28 [...]

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  120 Nations, Millions of Doctors, Nurses Urge Climate Action

  December 3, 2023 Comments Off on 120 Nations, Millions of Doctors, Nurses Urge Climate Action

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 3, 2023 (ENS) – On Sunday, the first Health Day at a United Nations climate summit, more than 40 million health professionals from around the world joined the call to [...]

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  COP28: Oil Companies Jump On the Decarbonization Bandwagon

  December 2, 2023 Comments Off on COP28: Oil Companies Jump On the Decarbonization Bandwagon

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 2, 2023 (ENS) – Fifty oil and natural gas producers, including Saudi Aramco, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and 28 other national oil companies, have signed an agreement to [...]

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  UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

  November 30, 2023 Comments Off on UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN [...]

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  Climate Heating Consumes Europe’s Forests: Facts Fall Short

  November 25, 2023 Comments Off on Climate Heating Consumes Europe’s Forests: Facts Fall Short

  BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 25, 2023 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed the EU’s first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests. It is expected to create a comprehensive forest [...]

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  USA, China Pledge Cooperation to Overcome Climate Crisis

  November 21, 2023 Comments Off on USA, China Pledge Cooperation to Overcome Climate Crisis

  WOODSIDE, California, November 20, 2023 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping are long-time acquaintances, and despite recent tensions, their in-person talks on November 15 at the Filoli Estate in Woodside yielded [...]

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  Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction

  November 15, 2023 Comments Off on Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction

  PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – From black puffs of diesel exhaust to the sun-blocking haze of orange wildfire smoke, air pollution is known to damage respiratory health. Now, research from Rutgers and [...]

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  U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil

  November 15, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil

  RICHMOND, Virginia, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the European supplier that leads the global market for offshore wind turbines, has suspended plans to build a US$200 million turbine blade factory at [...]

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  Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods

  November 13, 2023 Comments Off on Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods

  BOSTON, Massachusetts, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Everybody knows what ultraprocessed foods are – sweet snacks, ready-to-eat meals, fats and sauces, ice cream, savory snacks, cookies and chips, ham, sausages, artificial sweeteners. They can tickle [...]

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  WMO Predicts Global Heat Streak Will Persist Into 2024

  November 13, 2023 Comments Off on WMO Predicts Global Heat Streak Will Persist Into 2024

  GENEVA, Switzerland, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Temperature records were again shattered in October, continuing a streak of high land and ocean surface temperatures and low sea ice, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate [...]

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  Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire

  November 10, 2023 Comments Off on Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire

  NEW YORK, New York, November 10, 2023 (ENS) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today briefed an Emergency Meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the health situation in Gaza, as Israeli [...]

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  SOUTH CAROLINA: Safari Owner Guilty of Wildlife Trafficking

  November 8, 2023 Comments Off on SOUTH CAROLINA: Safari Owner Guilty of Wildlife Trafficking

  FLORENCE, South Carolina, November 8, 2023 (ENS) – Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, 63, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, an American animal trainer, private zoo operator, and convicted felon, pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy to violate [...]

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  South Africa’s National Assembly Passes Climate Change Bill

  November 6, 2023 Comments Off on South Africa’s National Assembly Passes Climate Change Bill

  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 [...]

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  U.S. Devotes $128 Million to Environmental Justice Projects

  November 1, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Devotes $128 Million to Environmental Justice Projects

  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 of President Joe Biden’s Investing [...]