SALEM, Oregon, October 10, 2025 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek this week signed an Executive Order accelerating renewable wind and solar project development in the state before time runs out on federal clean energy tax credits. Tax credits now on the table that are set to expire on July 4, 2026 can fund between 30 and 50 percent of most solar and wind projects, the governor said. […]
ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials. […]
WOOD-RIDGE, New Jersey, October 8, 2025 (ENS) – Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, are now on track to be cleaned up at the Berry’s Creek Study Area adjacent to Wood-Ridge in the Meadowlands of northeastern New Jersey, just 13 miles from New York City. […]
DILLARD, Oregon, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – An era in Oregon forest products is coming to an end. Roseburg Forest Products, a private company founded in 1936, has ceased operations […]
DENVER, Colorado, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Environmental justice and conservation groups today sounded the alarm over a backroom deal to avoid enforcement of key water permit provisions that was forged between the State of Colorado and the Suncor Energy – Commerce City Refinery, a petroleum refining facility in Commerce City, just northeast of Denver. […]
SACRAMENTO, California, July 8, 2025 (ENS) – Building toward its goal of conserving 30 percent of its lands and coastal waters by 2030, the State of California has protected over […]
TRENTON, New Jersey, May 28, 2025 (ENS) – The State of New Jersey has announced a landmark $450 million settlement with the 3M manufacturing company to resolve damages to the […]
ALBANY, New York, March 18, 2025 (ENS) – It was more than two months ago, on January 14, during the last week of President Joe Biden’s administration, when New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to invest more than US$1 billion to address the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and affordable future as part of her 2025 State of the State address. […]
ATLANTA, Georgia, March 11, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun cleanup of Lindsay Street Park in the English Avenue neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, now closed due to lead contamination. […]
TRENTON, New Jersey, February 10, 2025 (ENS) – A New Jersey accountant was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in the promotion and sale of abusive […]
SANTA FE, New Mexico, January 25, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department, NMED, have announced a proposed $35 million […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 5, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft Clean Air Act Outer Continental Shelf permit for Southcoast Wind’s 147 wind turbines in federal waters south of Nantucket. […]
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, December 3, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have reached settlements with oil and gas operators in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania […]
MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2024 (ENS) – Constellation, an energy company based in Baltimore, Maryland has signed a power purchase agreement with Microsoft that will restore the one undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to power Microsoft data centers. […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, September 20, 2024 (ENS) – It was an unlucky Friday the 13th last week for two Puerto Rican men who were sentenced for their destruction, removal […]
BALTIMORE, Maryland, September 18, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil claim in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Grace Ocean Private […]
RICHLAND, Washington, August 6, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy is entering negotiations with a Chicago corporation to build one of the largest solar and battery storage energy […]
POCATELLO, Idaho, August 1, 2024 (ENS) – A million dollar fine was imposed Tuesday on diesel performance parts retailers GDP Tuning LLC and Custom Auto of Rexburg LLC, doing business […]
BISMARK, North Dakota, July 15, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency have announced a settlement with Marathon Oil Company resolving Clean Air Act violations at […]
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 14, 2024 (ENS) – The promotion and sale of abusive syndicated conservation easement tax shelters has led to a guilty plea on the part of another Georgia […]
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