Environment
Inhance Technologies LLC to Spend $239,000 to Settle Clean Air, Emergency Planning Violations in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, as part of a settlement of the company’s alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) involving five of its facilities in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
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Search Area Expanded for AirAsia Flight Victims, Data Recorders
The head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency said the search area for the wreckage and victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 is being expanded, as the hunt for the plane's "black boxes," or flight data recorders, continues.
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Proposal Of 50% Renewable Goal By 2030 For California
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) installed a 500-kilowatt photovoltaic system at its Kerman substation in 1993 to reinforce a weak feeder. PG&E found that distributed systems like this have measurable benefits such as increased system reliability and peak-saving capabilities.
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Calmer Seas Aid Searchers in AirAsia Recovery
Search and recovery teams took advantage of calmer seas Monday to expand the hunt for wreckage and victims of a passenger jet that crashed into the Java Sea eight days ago.
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Court Rejects Inaccurate & Misleading Language in La Habra Heights Fracking Ballot Initiative
As the sun sets on another California day, a flare burns in an oil field in Shafter, CA. As the oil industry ramps up production in the state through new techniques, many residents are concerned about the health of the people and the nature—and future—of the Golden State.
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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Utah and Colorado Wildflowers from Oil Development
A White River beardtongue. Graham’s and White River beardtongues are found only in oil shale outcroppings in northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin and northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin.
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Tropical Storm's Floods, Landslides Kill 21 in Philippines
Philippine officials said Tuesday that Tropical Storm Jangmi had triggered floods and landslides, killing at least 21 people in the central and southern parts of the country, many in areas not yet fully recovered from last year's Typhoon Haiyan.
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Environmental Groups Challenge Federal Approval of N.Y. Natural Gas Pipeline
Networks of gas pipelines funnel gas from wellheads to homes and businesses.
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Marking 10 years since Indian Ocean tsunami, UN says world better prepared for natural disasters
2014: Banda Aceh rebuilt - a scene from the city a decade after the tsunami hit. WFP/Rein Skullerud
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Lawsuit Filed To Protect Endangered Steller Sea Lions
Consultation has been the Act's most effective and successful safeguard by, for example, keeping factory trawlers out of Steller sea lion rookeries.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020