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  VIRGINIA: Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Gets Final Permit

  April 15, 2024 Comments Off on VIRGINIA: Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Gets Final Permit

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 14, 2024 (ENS) – Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, CVOW-C, project located off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. has this week received its final Clean Air Act Outer Continental [...]

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  Advanced Atomic Particle Collider Going Up on Long Island

  April 12, 2024 Comments Off on Advanced Atomic Particle Collider Going Up on Long Island

  ALBANY, New York, April 12, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most exciting cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, expected to generate fresh insights into the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be built over the next 10 [...]

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  Off the Rez: S. Dakota Governor Banned From 10% of Her State

  April 10, 2024 Comments Off on Off the Rez: S. Dakota Governor Banned From 10% of Her State

  FORT YATES, North Dakota, April 10, 2024 (ENS) – The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation spans the border between the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, but as of now the Governor of South Dakota [...]

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  Elderly Swiss Women Win Climate Case on Human Rights Grounds

  April 9, 2024 Comments Off on Elderly Swiss Women Win Climate Case on Human Rights Grounds

  STRASBOURG, France, April 9, 2024 (ENS) – The European Court of Human Rights today sided with a group of senior Swiss women who sued the government of Switzerland for placing them at greater risk of [...]

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  TEXAS: Japanese-Owned Company Fined $6.6M for Hazmat Fire

  April 5, 2024 Comments Off on TEXAS: Japanese-Owned Company Fined $6.6M for Hazmat Fire

  DEER PARK, Texas, April 5, 2024 (ENS) – The Japanese-owned Intercontinental Terminals Company has agreed to pay more than US$6.6 million to federal and Texas state natural resource trustees over natural resource damages from a [...]

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  It’s Wild Horses vs Livestock on U.S. Public Lands

  April 3, 2024 Comments Off on It’s Wild Horses vs Livestock on U.S. Public Lands

  LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 3, 2024 (ENS) – “The whir of helicopter blades deafens the peaceful swish of sagebrush. Hundreds of hooves descend upon the baking Western foothills: sweat and blood and death staining the [...]

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  $60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

  March 31, 2024 Comments Off on $60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

  BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 2, 2024 (ENS) – The tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge, sailed through the temporary alternate channel created by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, at 3 pm Monday afternoon. It [...]

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  Water Scarcity Eroding World Peace, United Nations Warns

  March 24, 2024 Comments Off on Water Scarcity Eroding World Peace, United Nations Warns

  PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water to [...]

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  CALIFORNIA: Chevron Fined Record $13M for Ongoing Oil Spills

  March 22, 2024 Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Chevron Fined Record $13M for Ongoing Oil Spills

  SACRAMENTO, California, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay a record-breaking $13 million in settlement agreements to two California state resource agencies for oil spills in Kern County in 2019 [...]

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  New EPA Emissions Rule Expands Automakers’ Time to Electrify

  March 21, 2024 Comments Off on New EPA Emissions Rule Expands Automakers’ Time to Electrify

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Final national pollution standards for passenger cars, light- and medium-duty vehicles for upcoming model years 2027 through 2032 were set this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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  Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

  March 21, 2024 Comments Off on Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

  SINGAPORE, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Across the world, people by the millions will be turning off their lights – going dark for one hour on Saturday, March 23, starting at 8:30 in the evening [...]

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  River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia’s Biggest Dam

  March 16, 2024 Comments Off on River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia’s Biggest Dam

  OAKLAND, California, March 15, 2024 (ENS) – Monday was the 27th International Day of Action for Rivers, a day when all across the world rivers were cleaned, dams were protested, webinars and classes were taught, [...]

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  HAWAII: Habitat Protected for 11 Rare Plants, One Unique Fly

  March 12, 2024 Comments Off on HAWAII: Habitat Protected for 11 Rare Plants, One Unique Fly

  HONOLULU, Hawai’i, March 12, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found only on the Big Island [...]

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  Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

  March 8, 2024 Comments Off on Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

  BRA, Italy, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – “Inspire Inclusion” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. Celebrated annually on March 8, which this year falls on Friday, organizers are exploring the connection between [...]

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  International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

  March 8, 2024 Comments Off on International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

  KABUL, Afghanistan, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – On this International Women’s Day, few women are on the streets of Afghan’s capital city, Kabul, and those that are out are with a male relative and covered [...]

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  Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

  March 8, 2024 Comments Off on Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – President Joe Biden entered the House of Representatives Thursday night to deliver the final State of the Union address for this term with a brilliant smile and a [...]

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  Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

  March 6, 2024 Comments Off on Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

  ZURICH, Switzerland, March 6, 2024 (ENS) – Transforming base materials into gold was one of the unachieved aims of ancient alchemists. But now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at [...]

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  NEW YORK: Two Dead: Raw Milk Cheese Producer Pleads Guilty

  March 5, 2024 Comments Off on NEW YORK: Two Dead: Raw Milk Cheese Producer Pleads Guilty

  SYRACUSE, New York, March 5, 2024 (ENS) – A former raw milk cheese manufacturer and the company he owned and managed pleaded guilty today to charges regarding cheese that was linked to a 2016-2017 outbreak [...]

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  UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

  March 2, 2024 Comments Off on UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

  ADEN, Yemen, March 2, 2024 (ENS) – The UK-owned cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by Houthi militants in mid-February, finally sank in the Red Sea Friday night off the coast of Yemen in rough, stormy seas. [...]

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  UN Leader: ‘Our Climate is Imploding, Humanity Is to Blame’

  March 1, 2024 Comments Off on UN Leader: ‘Our Climate is Imploding, Humanity Is to Blame’

  NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2024 (ENS) – On the final day of the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-6, there was a supercharged mood on the UNEP campus, only hours after delegates left [...]

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  Toxics in Biosolids Fertilizer Prompt Texas Farmers’ Lawsuit

  February 23, 2024 Comments Off on Toxics in Biosolids Fertilizer Prompt Texas Farmers’ Lawsuit

  BALTIMORE, Maryland, February 23, 2024 (ENS) – A product liability lawsuit has been filed against a major manufacturer of biosolids-based fertilizer produced from sewage sludge. The lawsuit seeks compensation for damages caused by exposure to [...]

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  COLORADO: Three New Bills Aim to Eliminate Ozone Pollution

  February 23, 2024 Comments Off on COLORADO: Three New Bills Aim to Eliminate Ozone Pollution

  DENVER, Colorado, February 23, 2024 (ENS) – Colorado’s Democratic state legislators rolled out an forceful group of three bills aimed at eliminating ozone pollution on the state’s Front Range, some of the worst in the [...]

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  WISCONSIN: Didion Milling Exec +2 Imprisoned for Deadly Blast

  February 17, 2024 Comments Off on WISCONSIN: Didion Milling Exec +2 Imprisoned for Deadly Blast

  MADISON, Wisconsin, February 17, 2024 (ENS) – Six Didion Milling Inc. officials, including a corporate vice president and former food safety, environmental and operations managers, have been sentenced for their roles in a fatal explosion [...]

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  Tobago Oil Spill Spreads Across Southeastern Caribbean Sea

  February 16, 2024 Comments Off on Tobago Oil Spill Spreads Across Southeastern Caribbean Sea

  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 16, 2024 (ENS) – At least two vessels were involved in an incident that is spilling gobs of black crude oil across a widening area of the Caribbean [...]

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  First Drug to Treat Severe Frostbite Approved in U.S.

  February 15, 2024 Comments Off on First Drug to Treat Severe Frostbite Approved in U.S.

  WASHINGTON, DC, February 15, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug – an injection to treat severe frostbite in adults that reduces the risk of finger or toe, [...]

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  Inaugural World Lidar Day Honors Remote Sensing Technology

  February 14, 2024 Comments Off on Inaugural World Lidar Day Honors Remote Sensing Technology

  DENVER, Colorado, February 14, 2024 (ENS) – It’s Geo Week in Denver, where one of the world’s largest geospatial conferences is underway. As part of the gathering, on February 12, a group of Lidar enthusiasts [...]

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  Capsized Ship Spills Oil Onto Tobago’s Secluded Beaches

  February 12, 2024 Comments Off on Capsized Ship Spills Oil Onto Tobago’s Secluded Beaches

  SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, February 12, 2024 (ENS) – An abandoned vessel that capsized just 200 meters (656 feet) from the coast of Tobago’s new Cove Eco-Industrial Park has been leaking oil for days, and now some [...]

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  Global Environment Fund Gives $1B+ to Help Climate, Species

  February 9, 2024 Comments Off on Global Environment Fund Gives $1B+ to Help Climate, Species

  WASHINGTON, DC, February 9, 2024 (ENS) – The Global Environment Facility’s 186 member governments have agreed to invest $1.1 billion for international action on biodiversity, climate change, nature renewal, and pollution control, during the GEF’s [...]

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  Success and Tragedy Mark First Rhino Embryo Implant

  February 9, 2024 Comments Off on Success and Tragedy Mark First Rhino Embryo Implant

  BERLIN, Germany, February 8, 2024 (ENS) – For the first time, a rhinoceros has successfully become pregnant following embryo transfer. Although the surrogate mother rhino died before she could give birth to the transferred calf, [...]

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  Bottled Water Comes With Zillions of Nanoplastic Fragments

  February 6, 2024 Comments Off on Bottled Water Comes With Zillions of Nanoplastic Fragments

  NEW YORK, New York, February 6, 2024 (ENS) – When we sip bottled water, we ingest not only water but hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic bits, scientists demonstrate in a newly published study in the [...]