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On May 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with one Maryland company and two Virginia companies to address alleged environmental violations during renovation work at University Towers condominium development in Silver Spring, Md.

On May 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with three companies involving the alleged improper labeling of pesticides manufactured at the Union Carbide Corp. pesticide production facility in Institute, West Virginia. The settling companies have agreed to ensure that pesticides are appropriately labeled.

On May 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Metropolitan Management Group, Inc, a property management company in Wyomissing, Pa., has agreed to a settlement that resolves claims the company allegedly failed to provide tenants with required lead disclosure information about two rental properties.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on May 22, announced that MFG Chemical, LLC (MFG), formerly MFG Chemical, Inc., has entered into a proposed agreement to settle claims that MFG violated provisions of the Section 112(r)(1) Clean Air Act (CAA) General Duty Clause (GDC) aimed at preventing accidental releases of chemicals that can have serious consequences on public health, safety and the environment. MFG is a specialty chemical manufacturing company with three facilities located in Dalton, Georgia.

A two-day discussion-based tabletop exercise on how to respond to a simulated wildfire in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, in close partnership with the Global Fire Monitoring Center, was held on 17 and 18 May 2018 in the city of Gomel in Belarus near the border with Ukraine.

Governments at national and subnational levels around the world continue to prepare for, and implement, carbon pricing initiatives as a means to curb their emissions while raising revenues, a new World Bank report finds.

Coral reef ecosystems house 25 per cent of all marine life, feeding hundreds of millions of people. A healthy reef at Molinere Bay, Marine Protected Area in Grenada.

Man carrying yellowfin tuna

A man was seriously injured when he was hit by lava spatter while standing on his third-floor balcony, in the first known significant injury related to Hawaii's Mount Kilauea eruptions that began on May 3.