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Spawning salmon.

The Town of Dryden, NY. Norse Energy (through its bankruptcy trustee) is seeking to overturn Dryden’s 2011 amendment to its zoning ordinance, clarifying that oil and gas development activities, including fracking, were prohibited within town borders.

A meeting of the G7 ends in Brussels with no breakthrough on the burning issue of energy independence. The leaders of the world’s most industrialised nations were grappling with the effects of the Ukraine crisis on European security.

Larry Couchot, 59, a certified public accountant (CPA) from Dayton, Ohio, who is the president and part owner of an accounting firm in Centerville, Ohio, and prepared the tax returns of businessmen associated with Cadillac Ranch restaurants, pleaded guilty to tax charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

As the G7 meets in Brussels to agree a response to the Ukraine crisis, Greenpeace warned the leaders of the world’s major industrial nations not to sacrifice Europe’s security and the climate for the benefit of the fossil fuels industry.

Train cars carrying oil pour their cargo into tankers and barges that cruise down the Hudson River to East Coast refineries.

Emerald Kalama Chemical has agreed to resolve inadequate leak detection and repair practices that violated federal clean air laws at its facility in Kalama, Washington, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.