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A town in New York is continuing its epic court battle with the oil and gas industry to keep a local fracking ban in effect as the New York State Court of Appeals
announced it would take up the appeal of Norse Energy Corp. USA. Residents of Dryden are gearing up for the next round of their fight to protect their way of life, joining hundreds of communities across the country that have fought the oil and gas industry.

Many of the poorest, un-served people in developing countries, for whom public water and sanitation services are out of reach, could increasingly rely on service provision through the domestic private sector. A new report released by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) finds that this will not only improve their livelihoods but is also an enormous market potential which waits to be tapped.

The MarkWest Javelina plant will invest over $650,000 for facility operations improvements that will reduce flaring events and improve communications with the local community. The gas processing plant will also pay a civil penalty of $97,500 to settle violations of the Clean Air Act uncovered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to find the Houston metro area is on track to attain an important milestone in ozone-pollution reduction. This follows a nearly 25-year trend of decreasing ozone readings for the area, despite significant population growth.

Greenpeace takes action at Syngenta's annual general meeting in Basel in April 2013.

Aircrews from the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing drop water from an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter on the Rim fire in the Stanislaus National Forest near Yosemite National Park, Calif., Aug. 21, 2013. Members of the California National Guard have been working with state and local officials to battle several ongoing wildfires in Northern California.

The Russian Coast Guard has begun a mandatory ‘inspection’ of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise following a peaceful protest in the Arctic on Aug, 26 morning. Greenpeace entered the Northern Sea Route, in defiance of Russia’s attempt to ban the group’s icebreaker from entering the area.

At a press conference ahead of a commission meeting in Tokyo, Greenpeace urged tuna fishing nations to halt the overfishing of the region's valuable bigeye tuna and to ensure other tropical tuna stocks are managed sustainably.

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres.

Big West Oil LLC has agreed to pay a $175,000 penalty and to spend approximately $18 million to install emission controls at its refinery in North Salt Lake, Utah, announced the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Big West Oil will also invest $253,000 to improve the monitoring and management of potential releases of hydrofluoric acid at the facility.