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EPA Restricts Toxic PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Found In Drinking Water

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restricted six toxic PFAS chemicals found in drinking water today, the first time the agency has regulated these ubiquitous "forever chemicals" in water.

EPA Issues Awards for Crucial Clean Energy Finance Program

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WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the award winners for two of three grant competitions it held last year to distribute funds from a $27 billion financing program created by the Inflation Reduction Act known as the…

EPA Issues Truck Pollution Standards

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The Environmental Protection Agency released standards to reduce tailpipe emissions from new heavy-duty trucks. These final standards follow a recent federal strategy to build out a national zero emission freight corridor network, which will put the nation on the road…

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China Promises to Ban Ivory Trade by December 31, 2017

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BEIJING — In the most important step yet to ending the global ivory trade, the Chinese government today announced a one-year timeline for its promised ivory ban. According to the notice, China will begin phasing out registered legal ivory processors…

U.S Instrumental in Protecting Antarctic Waters

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WASHINGTON – An international Antarctic commission has agreed to declare 1.1 million square kilometers of the Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean as a fully protected marine reserve. The move to conserve the area comes after extensive international negotiation. It…

World Leaders Vote to Close Domestic Ivory Markets

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — In an effort to curb the slaughter of African elephants, parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) today recommended that countries with domestic ivory markets that contribute to elephant poaching or the…

CITES Members Vote to Protect Pangolin

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Countries have united to ban the international commercial trade in pangolins—the world’s most-trafficked mammal. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) approved the strictest protections available under international law for all eight…

Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Proposed for Endangered Species Listing

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CHICAGO – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species today. The once widely-distributed insect species has been eliminated from over 80 percent of its historic range.

Motion to Protect Pangolins Passes IUCN World Conservation Congress

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HONOLULU, HAWAII – The IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest gathering of conservation leaders, has passed a motion outlining a path to broader protections for all eight pangolin species. Its adoption through the first-ever online voting process of IUCN…

Global Congress Endorses Protection of Bristol Bay, Condemns Pebble Mine

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HONOLULU — Native Alaskans, fishermen, conservationists and coalition partners today successfully took their battle against the proposed Pebble Mine to the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, securing overwhelming approval of a motion urging protection of Bristol Bay from the proposed…

U.S. to World: Protect Dolphins, Whales or Lose Access to U.S. Seafood Market

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WASHINGTON — The National Marine Fisheries Service issued regulations today prohibiting seafood imports from nations whose fisheries kill more whales and dolphins than U.S. standards allow. Each year around 650,000 whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are unintentionally caught and…