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Shell has announced that it intends to try again to drill for oil off the coast of Alaska. The company had suspended its drilling operations last year following a disastrous drilling attempt in 2012.

The Soy Moratorium, the agreement that ensures that companies do not to trade, acquire or finance soybeans linked to deforestation in the Amazon, has been extended until 31 May 2016.

Extraordinary meeting of the ITRE Committee on 26 January

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE) have resolved alleged violations of hazardous waste requirements at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington.

For the first time this century, China’s coal consumption appears to have fallen in 2014, according to a new projection from China National Coal Association and recent economic and energy related statistics. Coal consumption growth has been slowing down and decoupling from economic growth since 2012. China’s coal consumption growth was responsible for more than half of global CO2 emission growth in the past 10 years.

At the request of the State of Maine, EPA has finalized a rule requiring the sale of reformulated gasoline (RFG) in York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox and Lincoln counties in southern Maine. Starting June 1, 2015, only RFG may be sold to consumers in these southern Maine counties.

Quinoa - a highly nutritious crop from the Andes has become popular globally.

Aircraft are one of the fastest-growing carbon emissions sources, on track to triple by 2050 without regulations. Dramatic aviation emission reductions are readily achievable.

U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer sentenced five people to prison terms in federal court in Greeneville, Tennessee, late Wednesday for conspiring to commit Clean Air Act offenses in connection with the illegal removal and disposal of asbestos-containing materials at the former Liberty Fibers Plant in Hamblen County, Tennessee, the Justice Department announced. A&E Salvage had purchased the plant out of bankruptcy in order to salvage metals which remained in the plant after it ceased operations.