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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice Thursday announced a settlement with HollyFrontier Corporation subsidiaries (HollyFrontier Refining & Marketing LLC, Frontier El Dorado Refining, LLC, Holly Refining & Marketing Company-Woods Cross, LLC, and Navajo Refining Company, LLC) that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations regarding fuel quality emissions standards and testing requirements at three HollyFrontier facilities.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its settlement for alleged environmental violations by the owner and operator of five natural gas processing plants in McKean and Warren Counties, Pa. and one in Putnam County, W.Va. All six of the natural gas operations have come into compliance with risk management and chemical safety requirements that will better protect the health and safety of employees, local residents, and the environment.

Powercon Corporation has agreed to pay a $40,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility in Severn, Md., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on November 19. As part of the settlement, Powercon has also implemented a recycling project that will significantly reduce its hazardous waste.

On behalf of the Sierra Club, Earthjustice filed a legal action Thursday asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate smoke pollution coming from thousands of acres of sugar cane that U.S. Sugar Corp. burns in South Florida each year. Burning the cane causes hazardous air pollution that poses a health risk to people.

Forest and peatland destruction by ‘sustainable’ palm oil companies is fuelling forest fires in Borneo, a new investigation by Greenpeace International has revealed.

The District of Columbia Department of General Services has agreed to pay a $10,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of underground storage tank regulations at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on November 18. The settlement addresses compliance with environmental regulations that help protect communities and the environment from exposure to potentially harmful chemicals.

In reaction to the announcement of the non-authorisation of the climate march ahead of the Paris Climate Summit and mobilisations scheduled at the end of COP 21 Jean François Julliard, Executive Director of Greenpeace France

A flooded street in Baghdad, after heavy rain in late October 2015 inundated several areas of Iraq.

On November 17, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution under the Congressional Review Act, S.J. Res. 24 sponsored by Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), seeking to disapprove the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.