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A strong earthquake in the northern Philippines Monday left several people dead, trapping others in buildings and damaging the capital's secondary airport.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved emergency financial assistance to the Republic of Mozambique under the Rapid Credit facility (RCF). The Board’s decision enables the disbursement of SDR85.2 million (about US$118.2 million, or 37.5 percent of quota).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of Colorado, on April 19, announced a settlement with Denver-based HighPoint Operating Corporation resolving alleged Clean Air Act violations.

On April 18, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with Honeywell International Inc. and International Paper Co. for cleanup of contaminated soils and sediments at the LCP-Holtrachem plant in Riegelwood, Columbus County, North Carolina.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on April 18, announced that Lehigh Cement Company LLC and Argos USA LLC have settled alleged Clean Air Act violations at a portland cement manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

On April 16th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Advance Manufacturing Group U.S.A. Inc., an automotive parts manufacturer and distributor doing business as OBX Racing Sports, for violating the Clean Air Act. EPA alleges the company manufactured and sold auto aftermarket parts known as defeat devices, which bypass or render inoperative required emissions control systems. OBX Racing Sports, based in Union City, California, will pay a penalty of $25,000.

Greenpeace Switzerland, on April 16, activists delivered a 20 meters long “plastic monster” partly covered with Nestlé branded plastic packaging to the company’s headquarters in Vevey, calling on the corporation to end its reliance on single-use plastic. Activists also held protests at Nestlé offices in the Philippines, Germany, Kenya, Slovenia, and its sub-brand San Pellegrino in Italy as part of a global day of action led by Greenpeace and allies from the Break Free From Plastic movement.

"It is concerning that these banks are joining Afreximbank in facilitating the construction of a mega-dam in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage site when the necessary environmental assessment has not been completed by Tanzania’s government as required by national law.

20 Greenpeace Switzerland activists interrupted Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), on April 11st, by lining up in front of the shareholder audience, displaying banners that said “Nestlé stop single use” and “Nestlé, this is yours” while holding up the company’s throwaway plastic found polluting the world’s oceans. The activists then handed the plastic waste to the Nestlé executives and returned to their seats.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler visited the Blue Grass State on Friday to make several environmental announcements and participated in a food waste recovery event and an agriculture forum.