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The Alaska House of Representatives voted on Friday to relax environmental rules on advanced recycling facilities that use high heat or chemicals to turn plastic garbage into raw materials for new plastic products. The 23-13 vote sends House Bill 143 to the Alaska Senate for further consideration. Rep. Tom McKay, R-Anchorage and the bill’s prime […] The post Alaska House approves relaxed environmental rules for ‘advanced recycling’ appeared first on Alaska Beacon.

Green groups don’t want regulations to fall prey to rollbacks as they did when Donald Trump won the presidency.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed an environmental compensation of INR 45 crore on the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for flouting several rules while constructing an infrastructure project in Haryana.

Spanish farmers on Friday blocked streets across the country in a fourth day of protests and announced plans to gather in Madrid as they railed against the EU's environmental rules and what they see as excessive taxes and red tape. Since Tuesday, Spanish farmers have joined peers from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Belgium in daily protests that include blocking several highways and ports. On Friday, traffic on the A-2 highway to Madrid near the central town of Torija snarled behind...

Though they will only say so in private | World News

“Time is running out” is a strange sentence. It’s always true (shush, physicists—I mean from the human perspective), and yet it’s always anxiety-inducing. It’s perfectly calibrated to make the human brain tune out whatever comes next. Time’s running out for me to do it? Great, don’t tell me what it is! I don’t want to know! I’ve practically missed the chance already!Yet time really is running out if the Biden administration me...

The Biden Administration has implemented a broad "whole-of-government" policy to address issues of environmental justice.

Last week, the body had asked Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and Tata Power Co Ltd (TPCL) to reduce production by 50%, and also issued strict guidelines to Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Limited (RCF) in Chembur and closed down two ready mix concrete (RMC) plants in the city | Mumbai news

Republicans will now make up the majority of the Environmental Management Commission at a time when they’re making consequential decisions.

The news comes after state and federal regulators previously raised concerns about whether ongoing work violated environmental rules, particularly regarding the plant’s impact on surrounding wetlands.