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WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a final rule to address greenhouse gas emissions from the largest industrial facilities, while shielding millions of small sources of greenhouse gases from Clean Air Act permitting requirements.
Announced Thursday...
SEATTLE, Washington, May 7, 2010 (ENS) - The aircraft, aerospace and defense corporation Boeing has agreed to undertake two habitat restoration projects in Washington state to resolve its liability for natural resource damages caused by hazardous substances released from Boeing facilities along the...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now about nine miles off the coast of Louisiana. Despite the fact that the slick has taken longer than expected to reach shore, it has tripled in size over the weekend, now covering hundreds of square miles of ocean. President Obama flew to New Orleans and traveled...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 22, 2010 (ENS) - An oil rig that exploded Tuesday night and burned for 36 hours sank in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, leaving responders with a potentially enormous oil spill on their hands.
The Deepwater Horizon, owned by the Swiss company Transocean Ltd. and contr...
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 22, 2010 (ENS) - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley today marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by re-committing the city to protecting human health, the environment and the climate, which in turn promotes economic development and improves the quality of life for all residents....
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 22, 2010 (ENS) - Celebrating Earth Day's 40th anniversary in Boston's Faneuil Hall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office is presenting its annual Environmental Merit Awards.
Presented by the EPA New England since 1970, this year the awards recog...
Bangladesh's government repealed an environmental standard set in January that would require that the shipbreaking industry to prevent release and exposure of toxic chemicals. More than half of the world's retired cargo ships and supertankers end their lives beached on the coast of Bangladesh where...
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, April 13, 2010 (ENS) - Helena Chemical Company has won its defamation suit against New Mexico social worker and community activist Arturo Uribe.
In a decision Thursday that could chill the activities of nonprofits and community activists who speak out against corporations, a...
VYBORG, Russia, April 12, 2010 (ENS) - Construction has started on the underwater section of a controversial new gas pipeline that for the first time will deliver Russian natural gas to Western Europe without passing through transit nations.
Today in Portovaya Bay, near the town of Vyborg just south...
WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2010 (ENS) - The NEI Corporation based in Somerset, New Jersey today was awarded nearly $70,000 to develop a self-healing nanocomposite material to protect drinking water pipes from corrosion.
The award to this nanoscale materials development company is part of the U.S. Env...
