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Unfunded mandates, Harrisburg's revolving door top PSATS conference
The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.Township supervisors, borough council members, county commissioners -- these are the locally-elected officials responsible for transforming federal, state and taxpayer dollars into the services their constituents want and need. "You're the front line of...Tags: Hershey (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Public Officials, Career and Workplace, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Millstone will seek higher temperature limit for intake water
The Day, New London, Conn.With the 40-year trend of warming water temperatures in Long Island Sound showing no signs of abating, Millstone owner Dominion is preparing over the next two months to ask the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow it to adapt its nuclear power plants to...Tags: Engineering, New London (New London, Connecticut), Plant Closings, Environmental Politics, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Lexington Club gets council OK
A controversial housing project has received final approval from a divided St. Charles City Council, but there's no word when the development will be completed. Lexington Club's 102 town homes and 28 single-family homes will be built on the old...Tags: Politics, Union Pacific Corporation, Elections, Charles City (Charles City, Virginia), Environmental Issues
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Cape weather: Sun today, showers lurk
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.The sun will shine today, with a high near 49 and an east wind 15 to 18 mph with gusts as high as 28 mph, the National Weather Service says. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low around 39 with an east wind 15 to 17 mph and a 30 percent chance of...Tags: National Weather Service, Environmental Politics, Weather Reports, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Perdue wants combined approval for grain elevator and soybean plant
York Daily Record, Pa.Perdue AgriBusiness will not have enough time between now and the 2013 fall harvest season to build its grain elevator in Lancaster County. For that reason, on Tuesday, the company requested that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection...Tags: Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Lancaster County (Pennsylvania)
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Eco-Garden Club at Calexico High School teaches students to reduce waste
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterCALEXICO — Rather than rush home straight after school on a Wednesday, six students made their way to the garden they help grow with Calexico High’s Eco-Garden Club. For the past year and a half, students have been learning how to build...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Health and Safety at School, Education, Environmental Issues
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Official: 12 bodies recovered after Texas blast
Updated 2:00 p.m. WEST, Texas (AP) — The bodies of 12 people have been recovered from the remnants of a tiny Texas farm town that was rocked by a roaring explosion at a fertilizer plant, authorities said Friday, confirming for the first time the...
Tags: The Associated Press, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fines, Environmental Issues
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West Fertilizer Co. fined $2,300 in 2006 for lack of safety plan
This post has been updated. See note below.The West, Texas, fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday was fined $2,300 in 2006 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not having a risk management program in place, records show. West Fertilizer Co. settled with the environmental agency in...Tags: Chemical Industry, Insurance, Health and Safety at Work, Explosions, Punishment
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Chemical in Texas blast has a well-known deadly potential
The blast at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant on Wednesday night was so massive that investigators believe it probably involved a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, a chemical that some scientists say should be regulated as an explosive. In a report...
Tags: Insurance, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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States, cities, environmental groups demand EPA emission rules
WASHINGTON -- A dozen states and cities and three major environmental groups have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the regulator unless it issues final rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. On...
Tags: Washington, DC, Science and Technology, Global Change, Standards, Environmental Politics
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Iraqi immigrant wins Goldman Environmental Prize
During his 30-year reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein repeatedly plunged the country into war, even transforming an ancestral marshland some say is the "historical" Garden of Eden into a battleground. To punish political enemies, Hussein built canals with...
Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, Iraq, Everglades, Immigration
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Former O.C. resident wins $150,000 prize for restoring Iraq marshland
Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi immigrant and former Fullerton resident who returned to Iraq in 2003 to lead a marshlands restoration project, has received the Goldman Environmental Prize, a $150,000 prize awarded to six environmentalists annually. Alwash led...
Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, Iraq, Everglades, Conservation
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