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The richly forested lands of the Thompson Divide in western Colorado could become an industrial zone.

The IAEA received a letter from Iran this week which referred to a leaked document and to the possibility of leakage by the Agency of parts of Iran’s initial declaration of its Additional Protocol. The Agency has sent a letter in reply strongly disagreeing with and rejecting any statement implying that the Agency has leaked information related to Iran’s initial declaration of its Additional Protocol.

Washington, D.C. — Tuesday, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for violating the National Historic Preservation Act and other laws, after the agency issued final permits this week for a massive crude oil pipeline stretching from North Dakota to Illinois.

In Sindh province, Pakistan, a mother tries to shield her four-year-old daughter from scorching heat.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on 27 July announced a settlement with Cemex, Inc., under which the company will invest approximately $10 million to cut emissions of harmful air pollution at five of its cement manufacturing plants, including three in the Southeastern states of Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. Two plants in Texas are also included in the settlement.

The a coalition of conservation groups, landowners, and public health advocates petitioned the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation to provide broader public disclosure of information about the chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, on 27 July

Greenpeace Germany on 27 July published an updated version of The EU Pesticide Blacklist. This catalogue, developed by an independent expert, classifies all pesticides authorised in the European Union according to their potential dangers for human health and the environment.

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands — Plans by the U.S. Navy to transfer 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam and begin staging massive, live-fire war games on the islands of Tinian and Pagan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands would severely disrupt communities on Tinian and shatter the dreams of families who want to return to live permanently on Pagan.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined by Denny Doyle from Atlantic Blueberry Company; Assistant Commissioner of Compliance and Enforcement Ray Bukowski from the NJ Department of Environmental Protection; and NJ Farm Loan Manager Ellen Schmidt from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to discuss stronger protections for agricultural workers and pesticide handlers required by the recently updated Worker Protection Standard.