ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) - On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty's Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials. [...]

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SALEM, Oregon, October 10, 2025 (ENS) - Oregon Governor Tina Kotek this week signed an Executive Order accelerating renewable wind and solar project development in the state before time runs out on federal clean energy tax credits. Tax credits now on the table that are set to expire on July 4, 2026 can fund between 30 and 50 percent of most solar and wind projects, the governor said. [...]

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WOOD-RIDGE, New Jersey, October 8, 2025 (ENS) - Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, are now on track to be cleaned up at the Berry's Creek Study Area adjacent to Wood-Ridge in the Meadowlands of northeastern New Jersey, just 13 miles from New York City. [...]

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, October 9, 2025 (ENS) - The world’s foremost international event centered on conserving nature opened today in Abu Dhabi. Held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is convened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a nonprofit based near Geneva, Switzerland that tracks species survival on the IUCN Red List. [...]

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