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On March 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced six lead paint enforcement actions—for a combined total of $287,000 in settlements—completed over the past year (January 2017-January 2018) in California and Arizona. These companies allegedly failed to comply with federal regulations requiring them to protect the public from exposure to lead.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 9, announced a Clean Air Act settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in which Kinder Morgan Altamont and Colorado Interstate Gas have agreed to pay a $179,099 penalty and improve the maintenance of process equipment that will reduce the risk of an accidental release of hazardous chemicals at natural gas processing facilities in Altamont, Utah and Sinclair, Wyoming.

Nearly 1 million people were left without power as a second major winter storm in less than a week brought as much as 60 centimeters (20 inches) of wet, heavy snow to the U.S. East Coast.

Michael Bloomberg visiting the Theewaterskloof Dam with Christine Colvin from WWF-South Africa.

On March 8, officials from the U.S. Department of Interior visiting Alaska announced their intent to begin the regulatory process for offering leases in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Fisherman holding fish in his hands, Mafamede, Mozambique.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice on March 7, announced a final consent decree with S.H. Bell Co. requiring the business to monitor and take measures to reduce manganese emissions from its 92-acre raw products storage and material handling facility that spans the Pennsylvania-Ohio border in Ohioville, Pa. and East Liverpool, Ohio.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the U.S. government by 21 young people who say climate change deprives them of their constitutional rights.

On March 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of the United States’ domestic action plan for reducing phosphorus, a major contributor to harmful algal blooms, in Lake Erie. The plan outlines federal and state efforts to achieve the binational phosphorus reduction targets adopted by the United States and Canada in 2016 under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

Earth Hour, WWF’s landmark movement, is set to once again unite millions of people around the world to show their commitment to the planet. As our one shared home faces the dual challenge of climate change and plummeting biodiversity, the world’s largest grassroots movement for the environment aims to mobilize individuals, businesses and governments to be a part of the conversation and solutions needed to build a healthy, sustainable future – and planet – for all.