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IDB Supports Ecuador to Improve Electricity Supply
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Inter-American Development Bank issued the following news release:
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IDB Supports Ecuador to Improve Electricity Supply
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Board of Executive Directors has approved a Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects (CCLIP) of $1 billion aimed at improving electricity supply in Ecuador.
Within this new credit line, the Board also approved an initial individual operation for $270 million, along with a $30 million loan from the Clean Technology Fund. This financing seeks to support improvements in the reliability and capacity
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Inter-American Development Bank issued the following news release:
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IDB Supports Ecuador to Improve Electricity Supply
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Board of Executive Directors has approved a Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects (CCLIP) of $1 billion aimed at improving electricity supply in Ecuador.
Within this new credit line, the Board also approved an initial individual operation for $270 million, along with a $30 million loan from the Clean Technology Fund. This financing seeks to support improvements in the reliability and capacityof Ecuador's electricity transmission system.
The program backed by the new CCLIP will contribute, among other benefits, to reducing 1.3 million tons of CO2 emissions by displacing fossil fuels traditionally used to maintain electricity service quality. It will also enable more than 5,600 new households in the Ecuadorian Amazon region to connect to the grid by 2031.
The program will fund the modernization and digitalization of control centers and connection points for strategic power generation plants, increase transmission system capacity to interconnect new generation -- especially renewable -- and upgrade more than 700 km of transmission lines with advanced conductors.
Additionally, in the electricity distribution sector, substations will be reinforced, control centers modernized to better integrate distributed generation (such as in San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands), and projects financed to extend the grid and improve access in rural and underserved areas of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
This program is part of Amazonia Forever, an IDB Group initiative for sustainable development in the region, which aims to work together on forest and climate conservation and improve people's quality of life by offering economic alternatives.
The first operation for $270 million has a repayment term of 22.5 years, an 8-year grace period, an interest rate based on SOFR, and a local counterpart of $78.3 million.
The $30 million loan from the Clean Technology Fund has a repayment term of 20 years, an 8-year grace period, and an annual interest rate of 1.19%.
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About the IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a member of the IDB Group, is devoted to improving lives across Latin America and the Caribbean. Founded in 1959, the Bank works with the region's public sector to design and enable impactful, innovative solutions for sustainable and inclusive development. Leveraging financing, technical expertise, and knowledge, it promotes growth and well-being in 26 countries. Visit our website: www.iadb.org/en.
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Original text here: https://www.iadb.org/en/news/idb-supports-ecuador-improve-electricity-supply
IDB Approves Second Operation to Finance Metro of Bogota
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Inter-American Development Bank issued the following news release:
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IDB Approves Second Operation to Finance Metro of Bogota
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Board of Executive Directors has approved a second individual operation for $530 million under a Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects (CCLIP) aimed at supporting the development and implementation of the First Line of the Metro of Bogota (PLMB) in Colombia.
The program will benefit the 2.9 million inhabitants within the PLMB's area of influence, 96% of whom belong to low- and middle-income
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Inter-American Development Bank issued the following news release:
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IDB Approves Second Operation to Finance Metro of Bogota
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Board of Executive Directors has approved a second individual operation for $530 million under a Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects (CCLIP) aimed at supporting the development and implementation of the First Line of the Metro of Bogota (PLMB) in Colombia.
The program will benefit the 2.9 million inhabitants within the PLMB's area of influence, 96% of whom belong to low- and middle-incomehouseholds. Thanks to this initiative, residents in Bogota's southwestern corridor will improve their access to employment, health, and education opportunities located in the city's center and north, while also helping reduce environmental pollution.
Over the past 15 years, Bogota's administrations have prioritized the development of metro lines integrated with the public transportation system, considering them a structural axis of urban mobility.
The new operation for $530 million includes a 23-year amortization period, a 5.5-year grace period, and an interest rate based on SOFR.
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About the IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a member of the IDB Group, is devoted to improving lives across Latin America and the Caribbean. Founded in 1959, the Bank works with the region's public sector to design and enable impactful, innovative solutions for sustainable and inclusive development. Leveraging financing, technical expertise, and knowledge, it promotes growth and well-being in 26 countries. Visit our website: www.iadb.org/en.
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Original text here: https://www.iadb.org/en/news/idb-approves-second-operation-finance-metro-bogota
National Gallery of Art: Beneath the Surface - Mining and American Photography
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The National Gallery of Art issued the following news release:
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Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography
Dependent on precious metals from its inception, photography has always been intertwined with the natural resources that are fundamental to modern industrialized life. Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography is the first exhibition to exclusively examine how photographers from the mid-19th century to today have powerfully captured the effects of resource extraction on the land and communities of the United States. Featuring some 150 photographs
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The National Gallery of Art issued the following news release:
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Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography
Dependent on precious metals from its inception, photography has always been intertwined with the natural resources that are fundamental to modern industrialized life. Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography is the first exhibition to exclusively examine how photographers from the mid-19th century to today have powerfully captured the effects of resource extraction on the land and communities of the United States. Featuring some 150 photographsthat span 185 years, this exhibition focuses especially on the subterranean removal of the minerals and fossil fuels that power this country's economy and industry. Together, these works demonstrate how photographers have drawn on changing technology and unique visual strategies to rise to the challenge of picturing these colossal industries.
Made for a variety of purposes, ranging from commercial boosterism and celebration of technical advancement to social documentation and community activism, the pictures in the exhibition shed light on how photography has revealed the costs of extraction and who benefits from its success. Divided into six broad, chronological sections that contextualize the complex history of photography and extraction, from daguerreotypes of the Gold Rush to large-scale, immersive photographs made in the last decade, Beneath the Surface highlights how artists have used photography to explore the relationship between extraction, society, and the environment.
This exhibition is curated by Diane Waggoner, curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, in collaboration with the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Major support for the exhibition has been provided by the Center for Contemporary
Documentation.
The exhibition is also made possible through the leadership support of the Trellis Charitable Fund.
Additional support for this exhibition was provided by Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman.
Exhibition Tour
National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 23-August 23, 2026
Milwaukee Art Museum, October 23, 2026-January 17, 2027
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, February 14-May 9, 2027
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Original text here: https://www.nga.gov/press/beneath-surface-mining-and-american-photography
National Gallery of Art: Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The National Gallery of Art issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2025:
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Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne
April 26, 2025-April 26, 2026
Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne brings together four major works spanning centuries and continents to reveal how artists remix and reinterpret the conventions of portraiture and allegory as well as contemporary culture. Featuring works from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art--afro.died, T. (2011) by contemporary artist Rozeal., Titian's Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) and Ranuccio Farnese
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The National Gallery of Art issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2025:
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Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne
April 26, 2025-April 26, 2026
Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne brings together four major works spanning centuries and continents to reveal how artists remix and reinterpret the conventions of portraiture and allegory as well as contemporary culture. Featuring works from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art--afro.died, T. (2011) by contemporary artist Rozeal., Titian's Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) and Ranuccio Farnese(1541-1542), and Paul Cezanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat (1888-1890)--this exhibition considers how artists construct meaning through focused pairings examining Gaze, Space, Pose, and Subject.
The phrase "back and forth"-- which is repeated in the background of Rozeal.'s afro.died, T., inspired in part by the lyrics of Willow Smith's 2010 hit, "Whip My Hair" -- evokes a shifting dialogue between centuries and styles. It encourages close looking and offers an opportunity to see how each artist engaged with and transformed artistic traditions. Each pairing opens a thematic lens that breaks down boundaries between old and new, and portrait and allegory.
Gaze pairs Titian's Venus with a Mirror, which represents the ideal of beauty in the Italian Renaissance, with Rozeal.'s afro.died, T., which challenges and plays with notions of beauty, culture, and race through the present. Both paintings evoke the Greco-Roman goddess of beauty (Venus and Aphrodite) while the pairing questions how ideals vary for women from different cultural backgrounds. Space showcases how Rozeal. and Cezanne construct disorienting yet intimate interiors that blur abstraction and realism.
Pose juxtaposes Cezanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat with Titian's Ranuccio Farnese. With their strikingly similar contrapposto stances, each portrait projects a confidence that belies youthful fragility and innocence. Subject pairs both works by Titian to encourage reflection on how the artist depicted surface and psychology when painting an allegory or a portrait.
Back and Forth offers insight into how artists make choices--about composition, gesture, and detail--to construct meaning, while also revealing how these works illuminate and complicate one another when seen together.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The exhibition is curated by Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art and acting head of modern and contemporary art; Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, curator and head of the department of Italian and Spanish paintings; and Aaron Wile, associate curator in the department of French paintings, all of the National Gallery of Art.
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Original text here: https://www.nga.gov/press/back-and-forth-rozeal-titian-cezanne
Fannie Mae Releases October 2025 Monthly Summary
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- Fannie Mae issued the following news release:
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Fannie Mae Releases October 2025 Monthly Summary
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WASHINGTON, DC - Fannie Mae's (FNMA/OTCQB) October 2025 Monthly Summary is now available. The monthly summary report contains information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.
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Fannie Mae Newsroom
https://www.fanniemae.com/news
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- Fannie Mae issued the following news release:
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Fannie Mae Releases October 2025 Monthly Summary
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WASHINGTON, DC - Fannie Mae's (FNMA/OTCQB) October 2025 Monthly Summary is now available. The monthly summary report contains information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.
Follow Fannie Mae
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On X:@FannieMae
Media Contact
Kelly Antonacci
202-752-4647
Fannie Mae Newsroom
https://www.fanniemae.com/news
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Original text here: https://www.fanniemae.com/newsroom/fannie-mae-news/fannie-mae-releases-october-2025-monthly-summary
FACT CHECK: EPA Debunks False Claims that Agency Recently Approved "Forever Chemical" Pesticides
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
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FACT CHECK: EPA Debunks False Claims that Agency Recently Approved "Forever Chemical" Pesticides
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention experts with decades of experience in pesticide evaluation, today issued a comprehensive fact-check addressing dangerous misinformation circulating about EPA's recent pesticide approvals.
Yesterday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin corrected the record Exit EPA's website on the fake news from
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
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FACT CHECK: EPA Debunks False Claims that Agency Recently Approved "Forever Chemical" Pesticides
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention experts with decades of experience in pesticide evaluation, today issued a comprehensive fact-check addressing dangerous misinformation circulating about EPA's recent pesticide approvals.
Yesterday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin corrected the record Exit EPA's website on the fake news fromDemocrats and their media allies. In an X post, Administrator Zeldin reaffirmed the EPA's unwavering commitment to rigorous, science-based standards and full compliance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The Administrator made clear that protecting American families remains the top priorityensuring that every approved pesticide undergoes thorough safety evaluation and poses no health risks when used as directed.
BOTTOM LINE: EPA-Approved Single Fluorinated Compounds Are NOT Forever Chemicals and Pose No Safety Concerns When Used According to Label Instructions
FACT #1: It was Actually the Biden EPA That Officially Ruled Single Fluorinated Compounds Are NOT PFAS or "Forever Chemicals"
In 2023, EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics officially defined PFAS, after conducting a comprehensive public rulemaking process, as chemicals containing two or more fluorinated carbons. This deliberate exclusion of single fluorinated carbons was based on extensive scientific evidence and public input demonstrating that molecules with only one fluorinated carbon lack the persistence and bioaccumulation properties that are commonly associated with forever chemicals. The recent false claims that EPA approved a "forever chemical" represents a fundamental misunderstanding of chemistry and toxicology.
FACT #2: No Human Health Risks of Concern Identified When Used According to Label
EPA's rigorous evaluation process found no human health risks of concern when these approved pesticides are used according to their approved labels. This assessment included:
* Comprehensive toxicity studies across multiple species and life stages
* Specific evaluation of children's safety and developmental effects
* Assessment of reproductive and chronic health impacts
* Environmental fate and exposure analysis
FACT #3: Extensively Studied and Safer Than Alternatives
These modern pesticides underwent the same gold-standard scientific evaluation required for all EPA pesticide registrations under FIFRA, including studies mandated by 40 CFR 158. The compounds represent significant safety improvements over older alternatives.
We've moved away from truly problematic chemicals like organochlorines - DDT, dieldrin - that actually do persist and bioaccumulate. These newer, approved single fluorinated carbons are precisely the safer alternatives that modern agriculture has long been seeking.
There has also been some confusion as to whether these compounds are the same as those that are commonly used to fluoridate drinking water. These compounds are NOT the same and would have no fluoridation uses; they just happen to contain fluorine atoms, like many other naturally occurring and synthetic compounds.
FACT #4: Historical Precedent Across Multiple Administrations
Dozens of pesticides containing single fluorinated carbons have been registered over the past several decades by both Republican and Democrat administrations, including:
* The Biden Administration's 2023 registration of fluazaindolizine, a pesticide containing single fluorinated carbon
* Dozens of similar approvals spanning multiple previous administrations
* International approvals by the European Union, Canada, Australia, and other countries with stringent safety standards
FACT #5: Consumer Choice
For consumers who remain concerned despite the safety data, organic products remain available and popular. However, in the interest of full disclosure and total transparency, it must also be noted:
* Organic farming also relies on pesticides for crop protection
* Some organic-approved pesticides have higher toxicity profiles than modern synthetic alternatives
* Organic does not mean pesticide-free
FACT #6: Why Pesticides Matter for Food Security
Pesticides serve critical functions in modern agriculture:
* Protecting crops from devastating pests and diseases
* Ensuring affordable, abundant food supply that provides healthy and nutritious meals to all Americans
* Preventing crop losses that would increase food prices
* Reducing the need for additional farmland through improved yields
* Reducing soil erosion and loss of soil nutrients
International Scientific Consensus Confirms Safety
The safety of these single fluorinated carbons has been validated by regulatory agencies worldwide, including:
* European Union (known for stringent environmental standards)
* United Kingdom
* Canada
* Australia
* Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Korea
Journalists have a responsibility to investigate the source and accuracy of claims before publication. Simply repeating activist talking points without examining their scientific basis or political motivations disserves the public and undermines trust in evidence-based regulation. Read more information about Pesticides Containing a Fluorinated Carbon.
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Original text here: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/fact-check-epa-debunks-false-claims-agency-recently-approved-forever-chemical
EPA Order will Help Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority Comply with Safe Drinking Water Act
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
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EPA Order will Help Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority Comply with Safe Drinking Water Act
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Atlantic City, N.J. \- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an order directing the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority (ACMUA) to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)'s Lead and Copper Rule. A 2025 investigation by EPA revealed violations of federal and state drinking water requirements, which include inadequate tap water sampling practices. On October 27, 2025,
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
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EPA Order will Help Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority Comply with Safe Drinking Water Act
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Atlantic City, N.J. \- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an order directing the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority (ACMUA) to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)'s Lead and Copper Rule. A 2025 investigation by EPA revealed violations of federal and state drinking water requirements, which include inadequate tap water sampling practices. On October 27, 2025,EPA issued an order requiring the ACMUA to update its lead and copper sampling plans and conduct two consecutive rounds of sampling in 2026, as well as improve monitoring and reporting.
"Ensuring that water systems provide safe drinking water to consumers is fundamental to EPA's mission," said EPA Regional Administrator Michael Martucci. "In this instance, we have collaborated with our counterparts in New Jersey to identify violations and establish a definitive course of action for Atlantic City's public utility to meet its obligations under the law."
A series of inquiries and inspections between 2022 and 2025 found that the system has not met specific drinking water requirements, including failing to establish proper sampling and reporting practices under the SDWA. In addition to requiring ACMUA to update its sampling plans, the system is also required to conduct follow-up activities if the action levels are exceeded and to notify consumers of their lead monitoring results.
The action was taken in consultation with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and after discussion with the ACMUA. EPA is also offering continued technical assistance to the ACMUA to help the water system comply.
For more information about the requirements of the lead and copper rule, visit EPA's Lead and Copper Rule website.
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Original text here: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-order-will-help-atlantic-city-municipal-utilities-authority-comply-safe-drinking
