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Opponents of the Dominion Resources project rally in Baltimore, MD.

This week 24 innovative clean-tech startups graduated from Vietnam’s first-ever Clean Tech Bootcamp. This program helps small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) develop and bring to market innovative clean-energy and energy-efficiency solutions and adaptation technologies in the areas of transportation, agribusiness, and water management.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed settlement with Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation to perform a soil and groundwater cleanup and reimburse EPA for certain past and future costs at the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Superfund site in Saratoga Springs, New York. Under the settlement, Niagara Mohawk will perform this additional cleanup work, valued at $6.5 million, and pay 100 percent of EPA’s future oversight costs as well as all of EPA’s costs from April 1, 2013 through the date the court approves the settlement.

A farmhouse near the town of Dryden in upstate New York.

Under a settlement agreement with the United States, ATP Infrastructure Partners, LP (ATP-IP) will pay a $1 million civil penalty and perform corrective measures to resolve claims by the U.S. under the Clean Water Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) of unauthorized discharges of oil and chemicals from an oil platform into the Gulf of Mexico, announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice, and the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

A Cheetah mother with her two cubs in Kenya.

The newly restored flows to `Īao Stream (traditionally known as Wailuku River) in October 2014.

EPA approved today a deadly herbicide, 2,4-D for use on genetically engineered crops.

After more than 36 hours of peaceful protest, activists have Wednesday ended their occupation of ENI’s oil platform, Prezioso in Sicily where they have been since early Tuesday morning. With the banner 'Stop Fossils, Go Renewable', they were there with the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior to highlight growing popular opinion against fossil fuels.

After more than a century of trapping and habitat loss, wolverines in the lower 48 have been reduced to small, fragmented populations in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and northeast Oregon.