Environment

Waste: more ambitious targets towards a circular economy

On Tuesday 24 January Parliament’s environment committee votes to amend a Commission proposal on waste management, the so-called “waste package” which includes four directives. In previous resolutions Parliament has called for more ambitious targets....

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Public Interest Groups, Farmers File Lawsuit Challenging Monsanto's Toxic Pesticides

Farmers and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit on Friday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Monsanto’s new “XtendiMax” pesticide. The approval, of the pesticide company’s latest version of the older weed-killer...

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CDOT Finalizes I-70 Decision Despite Discrminatory Impact

I-70 cuts through the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. “Our...

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Overfishing threatens food security off Africa’s western and central coast as many fish species in the region face extinction – IUCN report

Many marine fish species – including the Madeiran sardine – are in danger of global extinction due to overfishing along the coast of western and central Africa, threatening food security in the region, according to the Eastern Central Atlantic Red...

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