Environment

Conservation And Hunting Groups Sue To Halt Humboldt Bay Bird Habitat Destruction

In an effort to protect one of the most important places for migratory birds on the Pacific Coast, on March 30, conservation and hunting groups filed suit to stop a large expansion of oyster farming in Humboldt Bay that will dramatically increase the...

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EPA Secures Agreement for $14 Million Cleanup of Lead and Arsenic at the Route 561 Dump site in Gibbsboro, N.J.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on March 30, announced a legal agreement with the Sherwin-Williams Company to clean up lead and arsenic contaminated soil and sediment at the Route 561 Dump site in Gibbsboro, N.J. The site is near a former...

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Hundreds create aerial art to stand up to fossil fuels and protect the Amazon Reef

More than five hundred people joined together to form the messages “Defenda os Corais da Amazônia” and “Petróleo Não” (“Defend the Amazon Reef” and “No Oil”, in English) around a huge butterfly fish on the sands of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro,...

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Westinghouse bankruptcy underscores meltdown of the global nuclear industry - Greenpeace

The board of Westinghouse’s parent company, Toshiba, on March 29, approved the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its drowning U.S. company – a defining moment in the decades-long downward spiral of the global nuclear power industry.

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