Environment
‘Build back better’ has worked in Aceh – UNICEF
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, UNICEF commended the people of Aceh, Indonesia’s western-most province, for their resilience and their achievements in rising from devastation.
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Ten years after the 2004 tsunami, the Indian Ocean is better prepared to avert disaster
The havoc wreaked by the tsunami that struck countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 travelled the world, showing destroyed homes, villages covered in mud and beaches strewn with all manner of debris. They gave us an idea of the magnitude of devastation that in just a few hours spread along the shores of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, southern India and western Thailand, and of the suffering that ensued.
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Statement On Approval Of Kentucky Solar Project
The E.W. Brown Generating Station—and future home to the first utility-scale solar project ever approved by the Kentucky PSC.
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XTO Energy, Inc. to Restore Areas Damaged by Natural Gas Extraction Activities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that XTO Energy, Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nation’s largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations.
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Court Upholds Protections Of California's Native Salmon From Central Valley Water Diversions
A fisherman holds a steelhead shortly before the American River is closed for recreational fishing until the spawning season ends.
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EPA Designates Idaho’s West Silver Valley as being in “Non-Attainment” for Fine Particle Air Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken another step forward to reduce pollution and protect air quality in Northern Idaho’s West Silver Valley. Late on December 18, the EPA officially finalized nationwide area designations for the 2012 annual PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
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New England Ski Companies Reminded that Oil Spill Prevention Protects the Environment
As with all businesses that store significant quantities of petroleum-based fuel and oil at their facilities, New England ski resorts have a legal responsibility to create and implement updated oil spill prevention plans to be in compliance with federal oil pollution prevention laws. Adhering to “Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure” rules helps ensure that the local environment in the communities in which they operate are better protected from the potential of a damaging oil spill.
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EPA's First-Ever Coal Ash Rule Leaves Communities to Protect Themselves
The devastating coal ash spill at Kingston, TN in December 2008. One billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres, destroying homes, poisoning rivers and contaminating coves and residential drinking waters.
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IAEA Mission Concludes Peer Review of the Republic of Korea’s Regulatory Framework for Nuclear Safety
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Earthjustice Hails Governor Andrew Cuomo's Historic Energy Leadership
An anti-fracking demonstration outside of New York Governor Cuomo's office in Manhattan, NY, in October of 2012.
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Human Rights
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
The Peace Bell Resonates at the 27th Eurasian Economic Summit
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020