Environment

EPA Settlement with Tradebe to Reduce Hazardous Air Pollution and Improve Compliance at Two Connecticut Facilities

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on December 12, announced a proposed settlement with Tradebe Treatment and Recycling Northeast, LLC that resolves alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Clean Air...

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Shipping Company Sentenced for Illegally Discharging Oily Waste at Sea

The U.S. Department of Justice, on December 12, announced that Navimax Corporation, incorporated in the Marshall Islands with its main offices in Greece, was sentenced to a $2,000,000 fine by a federal district court for violating the Act to Prevent...

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COP24 ends without firm promises to raise climate action and ambition

Just two months after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned we have 12 years left to save the world, COP24 ended with no clear promise of enhanced climate action.

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Health benefits far outweigh the costs of meeting climate change goals

Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. The latest estimates from leading experts also indicate that the value of health gains from climate action...

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