The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that the systems used at gas stations pumps to capture harmul gasoline vapors while refueling cars can be phased out.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the extension of a public process exploring the expansion of incentives for voluntary partnerships with private landowners and other land stewards to help conserve imperiled wildlife.
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The Central Park Conservancy was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Alcoa Foundation and an in-kind donation of aluminum valued at $140,000 from Alcoa Recycling to design a sustainable waste management system.
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The area of the globe covered by wetlands has dropped 6 percent in 15 years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in areas that have experienced the largest increases in population in recent decades.
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A new report titled "Irrational Exemption: Tar Sands Pipeline Subsidies and Why They Must End" says there is a $375 million subsidy for tar sands oil because oil and gas industry lobbyists have exempted them from paying into a fund designed to help clean up oil spills.
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A safe haven could be out of reach for 9 percent of the Western Hemisphere's mammals, and as much as 40 percent in certain regions, because the animals just won't move swiftly enough to outpace climate change.
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A new study finds that fetal exposure to the plastic additive bisphenol A, or BPA, alters mammary gland development in primates.
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