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The Korea Industrial Complex Corporation (KICOX) and the World Bank Group are hosting the 2015 Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP) International Conference from October 26-28, 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. The theme of the conference is “An Alternative for the Future of Industrial Development: EIP and Low Carbon, Green Industrial Complexes.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settled its case against American Vanguard Corporation, located in Newport Beach, Calif., for failure to report toxic chemical substances imported by two of its subsidiary companies. American Vanguard will pay a fine of $81,855.

Negotiators at EU-US trade talks ending in Miami later on Friday have discussed a system to weaken environmental standards that stand in the way of corporate interests, said Greenpeace. The talks are taking place against a backdrop of mounting protests against TTIP, with over three million people signing the largest ever EU petition and hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in anti-TTIP marches last week.

Save the Children aid workers remain on high alert to mount emergency relief efforts for vulnerable children affected by the expected flash floods, volcanic mudflows, and heavy landslides after the west coast of Mexico was hit by a hurricane on Friday evening.

EU fisheries ministers meet Thursday to agree 2016 quotas for stocks in the Baltic Sea. With Baltic cod stocks in a worrying state, there is no room for complacency: ministers must set sustainable fishing limits for all stocks, not least cod, and allocate the lion’s share of the quotas to low-impact fishermen.

The rash of lawsuits by polluters and their allies triggered by publishing the Clean Power Plan in the Federal Register are highly unlikely to derail the landmark climate plan, key legal experts said Thursday.

Ten-month-old Ayen Thon at a UNICEF supported hospital in Bor, South Sudan, is being treated for severe acute malnutrition.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and 12 private entities have agreed to settle on actions that will lead to increased environmental protection at the Metro Container Superfund Site in Trainer, Delaware Co., Pa.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved Wednesday a first-of-its-kind multi-million dollar project to help protect over 80 percent of the Amazon and boost efforts to combat climate change.