Environment

U.S. EPA Reduces Smokestack Pollution, Protecting Americans’ Health from Soot and Smog/Clean Air Act protections will cut dangerous pollution in communities that are home to 240 million Americans

Building on the Obama Administration’s strong record of protecting the public’s health through common-sense clean air standards – including proposed standards to reduce emissions of mercury and other air toxics, as well as air quality standards for...

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DOE Announces 6 New Corporate Partners Join the National Clean Fleets Partnership

Furthering the Obama Administration's goal to cut U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that six new corporate partners have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. The new partners—Coca-Cola,...

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SOMALIA: Halima Omar, "I watched four of my children die of hunger"

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Drought has forced thousands of Somali families to migrate to urban areas

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Flooding in Iowa and Nebraska, U. S.

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This aerial view shows the swollen Missouri River inundating Sioux City, IA (left) and South Sioux City, NE (right).

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