Environment

EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to Clarkson University for Monitoring Pollutants in Fish

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday announced that Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, has received a $6.5 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to monitor pollutants in Great Lakes fish over the next five years. This EPA...

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Greenpeace backs Kiribati President’s call for an end to coal

Kiribati President Anote Tong Wednesday called for a global and immediate moratorium on all new coal mines and coal mine expansions, and has called on all State leaders to back his call to action in the lead up to the Paris climate talks in December...

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Project Signing: Government of India and World Bank Sign Agreement for Second Phase of National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Program

The Government of India, the Governments of Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and West Bengal and the World Bank Board Tuesday signed a US$ 308.40 million credit agreement in support of the second phase of the National Cyclone Risk...

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Greenpeace warns Sendai nuclear restart will not end nuclear crisis facing Abe government

“Even though one nuclear reactor has restarted, the nuclear industry is still fighting for its very survival in Japan. The lengths to which safety issues have been ignored in the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s (NRA) review process for the Sendai plant...

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