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Committee approves DOE budget request
Tri-City HeraldA Department of Energy request that could prevent furloughs at the Hanford vitrification plant has received the final congressional committee approval it needed. Changes in funding levels requested by DOE still must go through an administrative...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Environmental Issues, U.S. Congress, Doc Hastings, Patty Murray
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Contractor's bid on Riverview park work questioned
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteCity of Pittsburgh officials Wednesday defended a process that led to the award of a $1.55 million park improvement contract to a company linked to a contractor that later made improvements to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's house. The city provided documents...Tags: House Building, Environmental Issues, Soccer, Environmental Politics, Justice System
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Environmental groups looking for volunteers
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.Seniors to monitor streams Environmental groups are recruiting local senior citizens as volunteers to monitor water quality in area streams, observe wildlife and help with office tasks. The Lackawanna County Conservation District and the nonprofit...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Scranton, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Tobyhanna Army Depot's past cleanup policies back on the table
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pa.Is the public satisfied with Tobyhanna Army Depot's cleanups of an old artillery range's unexploded ordnance, a former landfill and a former burning pit? Should an advisory board be reestablished to review their work? Those are among questions being...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Army
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Radioactive tritium found in leak at South Carolina nuclear plant
ReutersBy Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C., May 15 (Reuters) - More than 100 gallons of water containing radioactive tritium has leaked from a discharge pipe at the Catawba Nuclear Station near Lake Wylie, South Carolina, and could reach groundwater, the Nuclear...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Politics, Duke Energy Corporation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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NRG Energy to idle Pennsylvania coal plant in 2014, six months early
ReutersMay 15 (Reuters) - NRG Energy said on Wednesday it agreed to idle two coal-fired units in Pennsylvania about six months ahead of schedule as part of a settlement to end a lawsuit filed by New Jersey and Connecticut in 2007. NRG will shut two units...Tags: Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Portland (Middlesex, Connecticut), Bethlehem (Litchfield, Connecticut), Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Long lost historic spring resurfaces in central Springfield
lrussell@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Crews restoring a property in central Springfield unearthed a hidden treasure that just happens to be a part of Springfield history. Near the west end of a future park known as the West Meadows of Jordan Valley, they hit a gusher. In...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Arts and Culture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Healthy environment vital, says white paper
China Daily, Beijing / Asia News NetworkBEIJING (China Daily/ANN) -- Environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the central government's white paper on human rights progress. The government has worked hard to ensure that people can enjoy a good ecological...Tags: Science and Technology, Civil Rights, Environmental Issues, Politics, Environmental Politics
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Cape weather: Clouds, maybe rain
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.While the day is starting out sunny, don't get too complacent as today will bring increasing clouds and a chance of showers after 4 this afternoon, the National Weather Service says. Today's high will be near 62 with a south wind 7 to 17 mph and gusts...Tags: Weather, National Weather Service, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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PolyMet impact study is ready for review
Duluth News TribunePolyMet Mining Corp. said Monday that the revised environmental report for its proposed copper mine and processing center near Hoyt Lakes is complete and headed to state, federal and tribal agencies for review. The "draft, supplemental Environmental...Tags: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Metal and Mineral, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Politics
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Assembly environment committee releases Coastal Commission bill
Asbury Park PressRevived after 25 years, the proposal for a new state Coastal Commission to regulate development and plan coastal engineering at the Shore cleared the state Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee. Bill A-3920 would establish a regional board,...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Politics, Regional Authority
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Lawmakers retreat from high-profile energy legislation
After a 2012 focused on major long-term energy issues, the Legislature retreated a bit from high profile energy legislation this year. Instead, attention was more narrowly focused on altering existing laws regarding the construction of nuclear power...Tags: Business, Rick Scott, Environmental Politics, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Nuclear Power
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