BOISE, Idaho, July 13, 2023 (ENS) – J.R. Simplot Company, a fertilizer manufacturer based in Boise, has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency involving Simplot’s Don Plant facility located near Pocatello, Idaho. […]
BUTTE, Montana, October 3, 2022 (ENS) – The Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, has agreed to spend $131 million complete its cleanup of the Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site in Deer Lodge […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 28, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s foremost environmental decision-making body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, opens its annual meeting today in Nairobi. For the next three days, […]
CONCORD, New Hampshire, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has joined the New Hampshire Brewers Association to open a new program honoring environmental leaders […]
LONDON, UK, December 15, 2021 (ENS) – The British multinational consumer goods company Unilever is using a new technology to create the first paper-based laundry detergent bottle made of sustainably sourced pulp and designed to be recycled in standard paper waste streams. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 14, 2021 (ENS) – Today, on International E-Waste Day 2021, waste management experts are asking households, businesses, and governments to take more dead or unused electronic devices to facilities where they can be repaired or recycled to recover precious metals and reduce the need to mine new resources. […]
AMES, Iowa, August 5, 2021 (ENS) – In pursuit of a circular economy that captures waste plastic before it contaminates the environment, scientists are transforming discarded plastic items, originally made from petroleum, right back into oil in the form of liquid lubricants such as hydraulic fluids, heat transfer fluids and greases. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 9, 2021 (ENS) – Effective, binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the […]
SEATTLE, Washington, December 18, 2020 (ENS) – Environmental groups are calling a secret agreement on plastic wastes signed between Canada and the United States “illegal, unacceptable and dangerous.” In a letter to Canadian Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Canadian, U.S. and international environmental organizations called on the minister to make the secret agreement public. […]
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 8, 2020 (ENS) – As the nation is focused on coping with the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, is quietly moving to permanently deregulate massive amounts of low-level radioactive waste, but not spent nuclear fuel. […]
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