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MI Metals has agreed to pay a $58,816 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility in Millersburg, Pa., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on November 12. The settlement addresses compliance with environmental regulations that help protect communities and the environment from potential exposure to hazardous waste.

The U.S. Navy Thursday said it plans to prepare a new environmental impact statement for training and testing exercises in the Pacific Ocean from December 2018 onward, including the use of sonar and explosives that threaten widespread harm to whales, dolphins, other marine mammals and imperiled sea turtles. The move follows a March 31 federal court ruling that the Navy illegally failed to consider restricting military exercises in biologically important areas within the Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing Study Area to reduce harm to marine mammals.

Five local community groups are saying no to a project that would introduce a major source of pollution and bankrupt municipalities in Puerto Rico, if given federal funding and approval to move forward. The United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service is weighing the proposal to fund a waste incinerator in Arecibo, Puerto Rico for the New York-based company Energy Answers.

Locusts can devastate crops and pastures.

A child and an elderly man stand on the roof of a building damaged when Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu in March 2015.

A marcher holds a sign at the People's Climate March, where more than 400 000 people around the world joined events calling for climate action.

Renewable energy boosts efficiency, creates jobs and makes good economic sense for countries around the Mediterranean, according to new reports. The governments of Croatia, Greece, Italy and Spain could accelerate the energy revolution by enabling massive small-scale investments of renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions.

A settlement signed recently by a company that builds solar power facilities in Massachusetts will remind construction companies that the US Environmental Protection Agency continues to protect the environment from illegal discharges of stormwater.

The industry committee set out its demands for a European energy union in a resolution passed on Tuesday. Among them: compliance with the Commission's recommendation concerning hydraulic fracturing, a voluntary system to collectively purchase energy, and support for the development of Europe's own energy resources.