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Energy

U.S. EPA Slaps Fee on Wasteful Methane Emissions

WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2024 (ENS) – As global leaders gather today in Baku, Azerbaijan for the United Nations annual conference to limit climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delivered a final rule to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by charging for waste emissions. […]

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Food

Big Meat Recall Affects 200 Products Sold at Major Retailers

WASHINGTON, DC, October 17, 2024 (ENS) – Nearly 12 million pounds of precooked processed meat and chicken found in salads and frozen foods sold at major retailers and served at restaurants and schools are being recalled over listeria fears, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, FSIS. […]

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Latest News

USA to Replace All Lead Water Pipes Within 10 Years

WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2024 (ENS) – To reduce the poisonous contamination of lead in American drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued the long-awaited final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements measure. As a practical matter, this means proactive replacement of lead service lines nationwide within the next 10 years. […]

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Gov/Politics

Harris-Trump Disconnect on Climate Is Glaring

The question to you both tonight is what would you do to fight climate change? Vice President Harris, we’ll start with you.” “Well, the former president had said that climate change is a hoax,” Harris said. “And what we know is that it is very real.” […]

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Business

Dockworkers & Ports Agree to Pause Strike Until January 2025

WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2024 (ENS) – The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. have reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend their current Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues. […]

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At Risk

Hurricane Helene Death Toll Above 200, US Southeast Devastated

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, October 2, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Helene blasted through the southern United States Thursday night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane, claiming at least 175 lives in six states, and leaving millions still without power. Falling trees crushed buildings as historic flooding across multiple states put homes and businesses underwater. […]

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Latest News

General Motors Signs Solar Deal for Three Assembly Plants

LANSING, Michigan, September 26, 2024 (ENS) – General Motors has announced a 15-year renewable energy purchase agreement for three vehicle assembly plants. The Michigan-based automaker signed the solar agreement with NorthStar Clean Energy, a unit of CMS Energy, an American company based in Jackson, Michigan. […]

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Energy

U.S. Awards First Offshore Wind Research Lease to Maine

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2024 (ENS) – The first U.S. floating offshore wind energy research lease was granted to the State of Maine by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM, on Monday. The lease area covers nearly 15,000 acres located 28 nautical miles offshore Maine on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. […]

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Latest News

Health Risk to Fetuses Prompts EPA to Ban Toxic Weed Killer

WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – For the first time in almost 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking the emergency action of suspending all registrations of a pesticide under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, warning of health risks to babies in the womb. […]

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Latest News

Mass Coral Bleaching Devastates the Great Barrier Reef

WOLLONGONG, New South Wales, Australia, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – A new 400-year temperature record published today shows the world’s largest coral reef is experiencing catastrophic damage. Warming sea temperatures and repeated mass coral bleaching events are threatening to destroy the ecology, biodiversity, and beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. […]

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Latest News

Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested at Japan’s Request

NUUK, Greenland, July 23, 2024 (ENS) – On the morning of Sunday, July 21, Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of marine conservation organization Greenpeace, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was arrested by Greenland police upon his arrival in the capital, Nuuk. […]

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Energy

‘Light of the World’ to Be Solar Powered at the Vatican

ROME, Italy, July 21, 2024 (ENS) – Pope Francis has kickstarted the Vatican’s plan to become a solar nation that he detailed in an Apostolic Letter entitled “Fratello sole” or Brother Sun. The plan is to use land outside Rome that the Vatican already owns to construct an agrivoltaic plant that will power the entire city-state. […]