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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with UIC Roofing and UIC Construction in Anchorage, Alaska for alleged mishandling of hazardous waste in violation of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

New photos and video released Thursday by Greenpeace Southeast Asia show freshly planted palm oil saplings on deforested peatland where several fires have recently broken out at the edges of an orangutan sanctuary. Greenpeace has called on the Indonesian government to ensure that no one profits from the forest destruction caused by the haze crisis by requiring all forest and peatlands that have been burnt in the fires to be restored.

Cyclone Chapala damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes in Yemen.

In Nepal, mountain infrastructure such as hydropower plants, roads, bridges and communication systems are at risk with climate change and more variability in water runoff.

Cyclone Chapala made landfall in Yemen, dumping heavy rainfall on the island of Socotra.

Thai Union Group has not done enough to alleviate concerns over human rights abuses in the company’s tuna supply chain despite recent media scrutiny of its business operations, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia investigation.

On November 3, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with ASARCO requiring the company to spend $150 million to install new equipment and pollution control technology to reduce emissions of toxic heavy metals at a large smelter located in Hayden, Ariz. The company will also fund local environmental projects valued at $8 million, replace a diesel locomotive with a cleaner model for $1 million, and pay a $4.5 million civil penalty.

Kendall Edmo with her daughter, in the sacred Badger-Two Medicine area. A Blackfeet tribal member, Edmo works to protect the Badger-Two Medicine area from oil and gas drilling.

A focused effort by the US Environmental Protection Agency to combat childhood lead poisoning targeted the New Haven area and resulted in significant improvements in compliance with federal lead-paint laws and increased awareness of the dangers of lead paint.