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Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, as part of a settlement of the company’s alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) involving five of its facilities in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.

The head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency said the search area for the wreckage and victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 is being expanded, as the hunt for the plane's "black boxes," or flight data recorders, continues.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) installed a 500-kilowatt photovoltaic system at its Kerman substation in 1993 to reinforce a weak feeder. PG&E found that distributed systems like this have measurable benefits such as increased system reliability and peak-saving capabilities.

Search and recovery teams took advantage of calmer seas Monday to expand the hunt for wreckage and victims of a passenger jet that crashed into the Java Sea eight days ago.

As the sun sets on another California day, a flare burns in an oil field in Shafter, CA. As the oil industry ramps up production in the state through new techniques, many residents are concerned about the health of the people and the nature—and future—of the Golden State.

A White River beardtongue. Graham’s and White River beardtongues are found only in oil shale outcroppings in northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin and northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin.

Philippine officials said Tuesday that Tropical Storm Jangmi had triggered floods and landslides, killing at least 21 people in the central and southern parts of the country, many in areas not yet fully recovered from last year's Typhoon Haiyan.

Networks of gas pipelines funnel gas from wellheads to homes and businesses.

2014: Banda Aceh rebuilt - a scene from the city a decade after the tsunami hit. WFP/Rein Skullerud

Consultation has been the Act's most effective and successful safeguard by, for example, keeping factory trawlers out of Steller sea lion rookeries.