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Damaged vessels in the US Virgin Islands.

Terminix International Company LP (TERMINIX LP) and U.S. Virgin Islands operation Terminix International USVI LLC (TERMINIX, USVI) were sentenced for violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in the U.S. Virgin Islands, announced the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency, on November 20.

Welcoming the outcomes of the United Nations climate change conference (COP23), which wrapped up Saturday in Bonn, the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s economic and environmental committee called for a more robust commitment by all OSCE countries to make progress on addressing climate change, on November 20.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, has reached a settlement with Emerald Services, Inc., a hazardous waste storage and treatment facility in Tacoma, Washington, over violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and violations of the facility’s RCRA permit.

Greenpeace demanded climate leadership to emerge from the Pacific COP, calling on leaders to listen to the need for urgency and transform their energy and land-use systems.

A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake near the French territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific has triggered a tsunami warning.

Eurelectric, the European electricity association, and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on November 17 announced a partnership to help provide reliable, sustainable and clean energy for refugees, as part of their global efforts to tackle climate change.

U.S. Seafoods of Seattle will implement enhanced leak detection practices and replace freezer equipment to address violations of the Clean Air Act resulting from releases of ozone-depleting substances from two of its fish processing vessels in Alaska.

To protect public health and treasured views at our national parks and wilderness areas, on November 15, three groups went to court to challenge a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that makes it easier for coal plants to pollute the air in national parks and other public lands.

On November 15, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee approved a budget reconciliation proposal by Sen. Lisa Murkowski to hold lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.