NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 15, 2022 (ENS) – A Louisiana man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $1,000 fine for possession […]
MIDLAND, Texas, March 13, 2022 (ENS) – A federal grand jury in Midland has returned an indictment charging the oilfield company Aghorn Operating Inc. and an executive of the company […]
HOUSTON, Texas, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has agreed to a legal settlement with the federal government that will eliminate thousands of tons of air […]
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – A $100,000 grant to help protect wild rice, one of Michigan’s most culturally and ecologically important native plants, has been awarded to […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2022 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reinstated California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to implement its own greenhouse gas emission standards for […]
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 5, 2022 (ENS) – Ben Grumbles, Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment, attended the kickoff meeting of the Better Climate Challenge last Monday. He was […]
CASSELTON, North Dakota, March 4, 2022 (ENS) – North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, a Republican, is convinced that carbon capture and storage is important to U.S. energy security. He supports […]
MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana, March 4, 2022 (ENS) – To resolve federal and state Superfund liability, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, NIPSCO, has agreed clean up soil contamination at individual residences […]
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 2, 2022 (ENS) – A federal civil trial related to the Flint drinking water crisis got underway in Ann Arbor on Monday, February 28. Four children […]
ORLANDO, Florida, February 26, 2022 (ENS) – “There is an ecological crisis in Indian River Lagoon. Large quantities of water with high levels of nutrient pollution from Lake Okeechobee and […]
FRANKFORT, Kentucky, February 24, 2022 (ENS) – Federal officials this week notified the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources that highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has […]
VALDOSTA, Georgia, February 24, 2022 (ENS) – A Georgia man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Wednesday for illegally transporting and falsely labeling dangerous venomous African snakes and […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 23, 2022 (ENS) – Maryland’s clean energy program has major components that are both environmentally counterproductive and excessively costly to ratepayers, finds a report released this week […]
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, February 16, 2022 (ENS) – The largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 19, 2022 (ENS) – President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill to avert a federal shutdown that funds the government, but only through March 11. […]
OAKLAND, California, February 15, 2022 (ENS) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against McWane Inc., operating as AB&I, alleging that the company has illegally emitted cancer-causing […]
MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania, February 15, 2022 (ENS) – Six projects in Pennsylvania have received Coastal Zone Grants totaling more than $250,000. Aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Erie Coastal Zone, […]
SACRAMENTO, California, February 13, 2022 (ENS) – The California Air Resources Board has awarded three grants totaling $25 million to provide innovative clean transportation solutions for disadvantaged and low-income communities […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s two largest mining companies are pressing their proposal to mine for copper beneath a site most sacred to the San Carlos […]
OAKLAND, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Today, a federal judge in California overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s November 2020 decision to delist wolves from the Endangered Species […]
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