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WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2024 (ENS) – The master contract between union dockworkers and their employers at 14 U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports expired at midnight Monday, as talks came to an impasse over pay and automation. While seeking improved wages and benefits, the central concern of union members is that automation will wipe out their jobs, but they may be too late – automated ports are already a fact of life in the United States.

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. The company has agreed to purchase the plant’s entire electric generating capacity over the next 20 years.

WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2024 (ENS) - To reduce the poisonous contamination of lead in American drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued the long-awaited final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements measure. As a practical matter, this means proactive replacement of lead service lines nationwide within the next 10 years. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business

WASHINGTON, DC, October 17, 2024 (ENS) – Some 12 million pounds of processed meat and chicken found in salads and frozen foods sold at major retailers and served at restaurants and schools are being recalled over listeria contamination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, FSIS.

The United Nations biodiversity summit, COP16, opened in Colombia on October 20. Negotiating countries are seeking to safeguard Earth's variety of life forms.

WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2024 (ENS) – As global leaders gather today in Baku, Azerbaijan for the UN’s annual climate conference in another attempt to limit climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delivered a final rule to reduce methane emitted from the oil and gas sector by charging for waste emissions.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 15, 2024 (ENS) – The year 2024 will break records as the planet’s warmest after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, warns the World Meteorological Organization, as world leaders and climate negotiators meet in Baku for this year’s United Nations climate conference, COP29, which opened Monday for two weeks of talks.

WASHINGTON DC, November 20, 2024 (ENS) – To improve the economics of recycling end-of-life electric vehicle batteries, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced $44.8 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for eight projects that will lower costs of transporting, dismantling, and preprocessing electric drive vehicle batteries and components.

WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2024, (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today launched a new, no-cost technical assistance effort focused on reducing exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other emerging contaminants in small or disadvantaged communities. The initiative is part of EPA’s Water Technical Assistance program, WaterTA.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 25, 2024 (ENS) – At the COP29 UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, which wrapped at dawn on Sunday, governments agreed on a new collective annual climate finance goal that triples the current US$100 billion a year goal under the 2015 Paris Agreement.