Environment

Glass Container Manufacturer Agrees to Install Pollution Controls and Pay $1.45 Million to Settle Clean Air Act Violations / Settlement to reduce emissions at facilities in Georgia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas

Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced that Ohio-based Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., the nation’s largest glass container manufacturer, has agreed to install pollution control equipment to...

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WWF calls for firm limits on tuna fisheries to address overfishing

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Yellow fin tuna in fish market/Philippines

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Greenpeace warns governments to drop loopholes in climate deal

As ministers arrive at climate talks in the Qatari capital Doha, Greenpeace urged European countries not to take the side of Poland and Russia in a battle over whether to maintain the Kyoto Protocol’s biggest loophole and to make real progress on a...

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OSCE welcomes treaty to sustainably manage Dniestr/Nistru river basin

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Water sampling is carried out during a joint Moldovan-Ukrainian hydrochemical expedition along the Dniestr/Nistru River, 22 July 2011...

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