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Zep Inc., located in Atlanta, GA, has agreed to pay $905,000 to resolve alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. As part of the settlement, Zep Inc., has certified that it is now in compliance with FIFRA.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored Sprouts Farmers Market of Dunwoody, Georgia, for its innovative climate-friendly refrigeration technology. Regional Administrator Heather McTeer Toney presented the store with a GreenChill Platinum-Level Store Certification, the highest honor under the GreenChill Partnership program, for its deployment of a transcritical CO2 refrigeration system.

In view of the worldwide boom in renewable energies, Greenpeace calls on Chancellor Merkel at the Petersberger Climate Dialogue in Berlin to take a more committed stance in matters of climate protection and the expansion of renewable energies in Europe.

Greenpeace's viral video 'LEGO: everything is NOT awesome' has been suspended by YouTube, following a copyright claim from Warner Brothers. The environmental organisation quickly transferred the film to Vimeo and strongly defended the work as a piece of satire that highlights a subject of significant public interest.

A waterfall in the Appalachian mountains

Major palm oil producers including Sime Darby, KLK and Asian Agri announced this week a "sustainability initiative" which Greenpeace warns will undermine consumer companies' recent commitments to remove deforestation from their palm oil supply chains.

The long term sustainability of the Pacific Bluefin Tuna fishery can only be guaranteed by following the science and halving catch limits, WWF will tell the two Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) covering the Pacific.

Seeking to increase availability of cost-competitive renewable energy to run their businesses, 12 leading companies signed the Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles to better communicate their purchasing needs and expectations to the marketplace. The companies – Bloomberg, Facebook, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, Novelis, Procter and Gamble, REI, Sprint, and Walmart – are hoping the principles will open up new opportunities for collaboration with utilities and energy suppliers to increase their ability to buy renewable energy.

Thailand faces trade sanctions if it does not take measures to shut down its domestic trade in illegal elephant ivory by March 2015. The announcement made at an international meeting on wildlife trade follows news of a report finding the sale of ivory has tripled in Thailand – already the world's largest unregulated market for illegal ivory – since it pledged to eradicate its domestic ivory market in 2013.