Environment

EPA Completes Cleanup of Chemical Hazard in Tonawanda, New York

Removing a significant threat to public health and safety, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed its cleanup of improperly stored hazardous materials at the Morgan Materials, Inc., facility in Tonawanda, New York.

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Rain Forecast Complicates Rescue of Thai Soccer Team

Rescuers in Thailand are racing against time to get a youth soccer team out of the partially flooded cave where they have been trapped for more than a week as forecasters predict heavy rains in the coming days.

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Colombia’s Serranía de Chiribiquete becomes world’s largest tropical rainforest national park

Serranía de Chiribiquete National Park, located in the heart of the Colombian Amazon, on July 2, was expanded to 4.3 million hectares, making it the world’s largest national park protecting a tropical rainforest. In a double conservation win, it has...

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Justice Department, EPA Reach Settlement with MFA Incorporated and MFA Enterprises Incorporated to Address Alleged Chemical Accident Prevention Violations

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have entered into a consent decree with MFA Incorporated, headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, and its wholly owned subsidiary MFA Enterprises, Incorporated (...

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