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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 and fill of protected wetlands in Puerto Rico in violation of the Clean Water Act.

VIENNA, Austria, September 21, 2024 (ENS) – China is opening 12 nuclear research facilities and testing platforms to international scientists and institutions to enhance global nuclear cooperation, a senior Chinese official said in Vienna this week.

LANSING, Michigan, September 26, 2024 (ENS) – General Motors has announced a 15-year s energy purchase agreement for three vehicle assembly plants.

Hurricane Helene blasted across the southern US last night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane. Amid flooding, storm surges and power outages, 40 lives were lost.

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.