The Federal Court not to dismiss the prosecution against Exxon (AP)

HOUSTON - a Federal Court will allow to continue legal action accuses the largest refinery U.S. of violating laws on pollution federal air of thousands of times over the past five years, environmental groups.

U.S. District Court Southern District Tuesday rejected a request by Exxon Mobil Corp. dismiss the prosecution regarding its installation in Texas.

The lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and environment said Texas refinery in Baytown for Exxon Irving-based exit 8 million pounds of illegal pollution, including carcinogenic toxins without face appropriate fines or be compelled to repair equipment.

Environmental groups say they pursue refineries in the Houston Ship Channel to force compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act because regulators Texas state fail to do so. They reached a 5.8 million with Shell.

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Council national Ocean, EPA Seek Input to develop policy Federal Ocean (ContributorNetwork)

According a press of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the administration of the Obama is National Ocean month by organizing a series of public forums and information sessions to obtain input from local communities on or near the ocean or depend on them for economic or leisure reasons. Information sessions and public forums throughout the National month of the ocean are to facilitate the administration of Obama to obtain the comments of the public that it develops first policies of the country, focused on areas of the country's fragile Ocean.

Information sessions and public forums will be held in part by the EPA with the National Council of the ocean and other environmental partners and agencies. In total, 12 different sessions will be held across the country from next week, with two of the sessions by focusing particularly on the region of the Great Lakes, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf of Mexico, who was struck by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill last year and has recently been the first anniversary this April.

The EPA noted that the announcement was part of the action of President Barack Obama to create a national ocean policy. According to Environment News Service, Obama President sets out the policy of the ocean in July last to create a collective effort to manage the connecting of the Great Lakes, oceans and coasts of the country. The policy, which focuses on the importance of marine ecosystems, also formally established the National Council of the ocean.

As the ENS article noted in the announcement of the creation of the Obama of the national ocean policy EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said, "the new national policy provides a clear roadmap for all federal agencies to work together with local partners, to protect our waters vital for future generations".

The press release also noted that public forums and information sessions are essential to the development of a national policy for the professional and successful ocean and these public information sessions are part of the a period of long month consultation being held by the National Council of the ocean.

According to the website of the National Council of the ocean, the other sessions will be held between 9 June and 1 July; locations include Washington, D.C.; Barrow and Anchorage, Alaska. ; Chicago. Honolulu; San Francisco; and Portland, Oregon. However, the EPA and the National Council of the ocean are encouraged members of the public who cannot attend a session to submit their comments.

Rachel Bogart provides a thorough analysis of local environmental issues current and new in Chicago. As a student of the suburbs of Chicago, seeking to obtain two degrees of science, applied his knowledge and his passion for the two subjects to gather more public awareness.

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Brazil Federal leaders discuss conflict Amazon (AP)

RIO DE JANEIRO - the Government of the Brazil will protect rural activists and increase the maintenance of order in its Amazonian forest in an effort to halt the deadly conflict in illegal logging, officials said following a meeting Monday on how to put an end to the violence.

At least three rural activists were killed in the region within a week: Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria, in the State of Para and Adelino Ramos in the State of Rond?nia. A fourth person who may have witnessed the murders in Para was also killed.

According to the Catholic monitoring group pastoral land, known as the CPT, in Brazil, more than 1 150 rural activists were killed in the past 20 years. The murders are mainly carried out by armed men hired by farmers, ranchers and loggers to silence protest over illegal logging of forests.

The monitoring group has to a list of 125-name-long of activists whose life is in danger because of their position against the loggers are common in the region on important environmental.

Minister of justice Luiz Paulo Barreto, said that the Government of the Brazil will analyze all cases on the list of the CPT and provide immediate protection.

"The Federal Government will not accept on efforts to bring peace in the region," Barreto said at a press conference.

The Monday meeting was led by the Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer and included the Ministers of the environment, justice, rural development and human rights. Their purpose was to promote cooperation between the Governments and States to stop the massacres. The Governors of the States of Para, Amazonas and Roraima were invited to the capital, Brasilia, for meetings later this week.

Ministers announced the creation of a working group on violence in the Amazon. No details were given on how the Government intends to fulfill its promise to increase police services in the region or how many new officers will be sent.

"We will not accept these murders and will be intensified surveillance and investigation and strengthen the actions leading to sustainable development in the region said Florence of Afonso of Minister of Rural development."

As a first step, the Ministry of Justice requested the participation of the federal police in the investigation into the death of the couple in Para State, according to a memo from the Office of the Presidential Palace press.

During this time, a man, Ozeas Vicente, was arrested Monday after himself for killing Adelino Ramos, according to a press release from the Ministry of public security of the State of Rondonia.

Ramos was known to denounce the illegal logging in the Amazon region. He died Friday after being shot six times while taking products to sell in a market with his wife and children. His family was not prejudiced.

He lead the Association of peasants Amazon and survived one of the most deadly land disputes, to Brazil - the Corumbiara massacre in August 1995 when police killed 10 militants peasants without land. Two policemen also died.

Life of Ramos had repeatedly threatened by forestry operators of States, including Acre, Amazonas and Rondonia, according to a press release of the Federal Secretary for human rights.

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