WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS - The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. [...]

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"Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer - guided by science, united in action," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day in March 1985 when 28 nations agreed on the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the parent treaty behind the Montreal Protocol. [...]

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DENVER, Colorado, September 15, 2025 (ENS) - Environmental justice and conservation groups today sounded the alarm over a backroom deal to avoid enforcement of key water permit provisions that was forged between the State of Colorado and the Suncor Energy - Commerce City Refinery, a petroleum refining facility in Commerce City, just northeast of Denver. [...]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) - Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of the most abundant greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2 - addressing two major global challenges simultaneously - plastic pollution and the climate crisis. [...]

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