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Scotts Miracle-Gro Will Pay $12.5 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties for Violations of Federal Pesticide Laws

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, a producer of pesticides for commercial and consumer lawn and garden uses, was sentenced today in federal district court in Columbus, Ohio, to pay a $4 million fine and perform community ser...

China: Stop Expelling Refugees

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An open-air industrial space in Yunnan occupied by several hundred Kachin re...

U.S. Navy Ship Sinking Exercise Resumes—Healthy Ocean First Casualty

A coalition of conservation groups filed a complaint challenging the government’s ongoing failure to adequately regulate a federal ship sinking program that resumed over the summer. The program, called SINKEX, short for “s...

Launch of a new report on Protected Areas

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Flamingos taking off from Lake Nakuru