dockworkers on strike New Jersey
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. […]

Ruined House Florida
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. […]

solar array Arkansas
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. […]

Floating wind turbine Maine
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. […]

pregnant farmworkers
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. […]

Great Barrier Reef
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. […]

Watson Arrested Greenland
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. […]

Vatican agroelectric site
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. […]

farmworkers in the heat
Air/Climate

Climate Change Scorches USA; Extreme Heat Grips 100 Million

WASHINGTON, DC, July 6, 2024 (ENS) – Independence Day 2024 will go down in the record books as one of the hottest. In total, more than 100 million people – nearly one in every three Americans – spent Thursday under heat alerts, according to the National Weather Service. […]

Supreme Court 2024
Gov/Politics

SCOTUS Decisions Cancel, Imperil Environmental Protections

WASHINGTON, DC, July 1, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in favor of Corner Post, Inc., a truckstop in rural North Dakota, and other rulings issued last week, alter the statute of limitations and other rules for challenging agency actions, threatening the stability of the laws that provide the United States with protections from the unchecked power of corporations such as polluting industries. […]

air pollution
Health

Dirty Air Kills 8.1 Million in a Year, Kids at Greatest Risk

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 19, 2024 (ENS) – Air pollution is increasingly impacting human health, finds the State of Global Air report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. The report warned today that air pollution accounted for 8.1 million deaths globally in 2021. […]

boats on Seine River
Land Use/Forests

Paris Olympic Torch Brightens UNESCO World Heritage Sites

PARIS, France, June 18, 2024 (ENS) – France is hosting the Summer Olympic Games for the first time in 100 years, and this year the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay illuminates the wonders of Europe’s finest environments as it visits 30 protected UNESCO World Heritage natural and cultural sites. […]

Flooded Porto Alegre, Brazil
At Risk

Brazilian Floods Expose Survivors to Waterborne Disease

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 28, 2024 (ENS) – “You got into the mud, walked through flood water and had symptoms of leptospirosis? Seek health care, as there is treatment and we have enough medication. Treatment cannot wait, don’t stay at home thinking it will go away, […]