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The Washington Department of Ecology denied a necessary water quality permit for the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals coal export facility in Longview today, citing the project’s negative impacts on climate, clean air and water. Absent a successful legal challenge to the decision, the denial renders the project formally dead.

Designer Gabriela Hearst and Save the Children President & CEO Carolyn Miles meet with a woman and her family in Turkana County, Kenya, in July 2017.

Soft corals in the Beqa Lagoon, Vitu Levu, Fiji

Five days after Hurricane Maria caused widespread devastation in Puerto Rico, millions of Americans, including nearly 700,000 children, remain stranded without power, clean water, or fuel. Save the Children’s team is in San Juan, working with partners and local officials to address the most urgent needs for children and their families.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in coordination with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality will continue to clean up hazardous materials and secure the site of a warehouse that burned down on May 14, 2017. The cleanup site is located at 1300 North River Street in Portland, Oregon, in a mixed industrial, residential and commercial area.

A week-long beach clean up has exposed the companies most responsible for plastic pollution after an audit of plastic waste conducted on Freedom Island, a critical wetland habitat and Ramsar site spanning 30 hectares in Manila Bay - one of the worst areas for plastic pollution in the Philippines.

As Puerto Rico begins to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Maria, the most destructive storm to strike the island since 1928, Save the Children is urging all emergency teams responding to the crisis to make the safety and well-being of the island’s nearly 700,000 children a top priority.

The death toll continues to rise following a massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico City Tuesday afternoon, collapsing buildings, killing at least 217 people and trapping an unknown number of others in the wreckage.

At least 120 people were killed by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico on 19 September. The earthquake occurred in central Mexico and it affected five states.