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Florida rivers getting sicker, Sentinel investigation finds
Florida's rivers are in trouble. That's what the Orlando Sentinel found after a yearlong evaluation of some of the state's biggest and smallest, most urban and remote, cleanest and dirtiest, protected and abused rivers. Of the 22 rivers studied,...
Tags: Global Change, Atlantic Ocean, Environmental Pollution, Judges, Ecosystems
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Arway gives state-of-the-PFBC to Pa. House committee
Lehigh Valley WildPennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) Executive Director John Arway formally presented the agency’s 2012 Annual Report to the House Game and Fisheries Committee today. In his remarks, Arway reiterated that one of the agency’s top... -
Mission Hill couple honored for green farming
MISSION HILL - Maintaining an environmentally friendly farm has made Ray and Pam Epp winners. When Ray found out he would be honored with an award, he was surprised and humbled. Ray and his wife Pam from Epp Farms of Mission Hill were recently...Tags: Environmental Issues, Human Interest, Agriculture
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China pledges to curb auto emissions, reduce air pollution
Photo gallery of smog in China BEIJING -- Few have experienced more rapid success in China than the auto industry, which has doubled its volume sales in just the last four years. But as anger simmers over the country's air pollution, fingers are...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Government, Air Pollution, Ford Motor Co., Standards
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Baltimore reshaping approach to aging water lines
Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the past year by a series of extremely public problems: widespread billing errors that required millions in refunds, massive water main breaks that closed downtown streets, and a collapsed stormwater culvert...
Tags: Loans, Environmental Pollution, Overlea, Economy, Business and Finance, Bernard C. Young
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A Step Toward Equal Treatment for Multifamily Dock Owners
Blog Sponsored by Taylor & Carls, P.A. Last year’s legislative term resulted in a positive statutory change for condominiums, townhomes and other multifamily residential buildings that have submerged land leases with the state, for docks, piers...Tags: St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Boats, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Coal industry leaders and environmental activists alike are touting a new, privately funded wastewater treatment plant that will protect and create jobs while cleaning up local waterways.
Staff WriterRosebud Mining Co. announced last week that construction on a $15 million wastewater treatment plant in St. Michael, Cambria County, will be completed by April. The plant is designed to treat acid mine drainage discharging into the Little Conemaugh River....Tags: Coal, Water Supply, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rivers, Environmental Politics
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St. Michael wastewater plant to benefit both the environment and the mining industry
Daily American Staff WriterST. MICHAEL — Coal industry leaders and environmental activists alike are touting a new, privately funded wastewater treatment plant that will protect and create jobs while cleaning up local waterways. Rosebud Mining Co. announced Tuesday that...Tags: Coal, Water Supply, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rivers, Environmental Issues
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Eastern Shore farmers, Perdue win pollution lawsuit
Ruling in a bitterly contested case with national ramifications, a federal judge found Thursday that the Waterkeeper Alliance failed to prove that an Eastern Shore farm's chicken houses were polluting a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.
U.S. District...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Judges, Government, Trials, Defendants
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Crackdown On School Bus Idling Welcome
For reasons that should be obvious, children emerging from school at the end of the day should not be discharged into a fog of diesel exhaust. Thus it's good to see — for the second time this year — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...Tags: Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Danbury
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Surface Mine Board did not abuse discretion in affirming mining permit for quarry in Gerrardstown, W.Va
matthewu@herald-mail.comA circuit judge ruled Thursday that the state Surface Mine Board did not abuse its discretion and did not make an arbitrary decision when it affirmed the issue of a mining permit for a 100-acre quarry site in Gerrardstown, W.Va. Substantial evidence...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Voice: Everybody wins with smoke-free casinos
Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Imperial CountyShe walked into the room with an air of mystery. It was there next to the dollar machine that he saw her. The song “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” played as they stared each other down. The room reeked with the recycled pollution of the careless...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Career and Workplace, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Health Organizations
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