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Jacksonville council panel on solid waste leaves to-do list for another committee
The Florida Times-UnionAfter months of hearings about complex details of Jacksonville's trash and yard-waste disposal, a City Council panel on Thursday endorsed a long roll of steps to improve how the city handles solid waste. A lot of that will depend on work by another...Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Environmental Issues
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SEMASS reveals new trash costs
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.Cape Cod officials now know the price if they choose to continue sending the region's trash to a waste-to-energy incinerator in Rochester after current contracts expire at the end of 2014. Covanta Energy -- the global company that owns the SEMASS...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Waste Management Incorporated, Electronics, Environmental Issues
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Sewage treatment co Mapal Green Energy raises ���1.5m
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelSewage treatment technology developer Mapal Green Energy Ltd. has raised �1.5 million (NIS 8.3 million) in its second financing round from British private equities fund Charles Street Securities Europe LLP. The company also signed its first...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Energy, Tel Aviv (Israel), United Kingdom, Environmental Issues
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Officials working on RFPs for waste collection, disposal contract
The Natchez Democrat, Miss.In an effort to avoid another lawsuit over garbage contracts, City of Natchez officials hammered out details Wednesday of what the city seeks in a new waste collection and disposal contract. Mayor Butch Brown, Ward 3 Alderwoman Sarah Smith, Ward 4...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Apples
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Budget cuts put Hanford deadlines at risk
Tri-City HeraldBudget cuts and other issues have put about 10 legally binding deadlines at Hanford at risk of not being met, Department of Energy officials said Wednesday during a public budget meeting. Those deadlines include work on such key projects as cleaning out...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Environmental Cleanup
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Sugarloaf Twp. supers consider ordinance to alleviate Rt. 93 traffic
Standard-Speaker, Hazleton, Pa.Sugarloaf Township supervisors continue to deal with traffic problems around the Pilot Truck Stop at Route 93 and Interstate 80. Tractor-trailers clog the highway, interstate ramps and a township road alongside the truck stop, preventing people who live...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Scranton, Environmental Issues
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Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy needs
Dan Ervin's commentary on lifting restrictions on U.S. companies supplying nuclear power equipment abroad is completely misleading ("A nuclear opportunity," May 6). Nuclear energy is not, as Mr. Ervin says, pollutant free or carbon free. Government...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Energy Resources, Nuclear Power
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State's $75M Share In Nuclear Waste Settlement Heads To Ratepayers
The Hartford CourantMoney from a multi-million settlement with the federal energy department will trickle to state ratepayers over the next three years. The $160 million settlement resulted from the energy department's failure to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and nuclear...Tags: Politics, Trials, Environmental Issues, U.S. Department of Energy, National Government
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New contract would bring tons of Los Angeles trash to county landfills
Redlands Daily Facts, Calif.Former Mayor Bill Cunningham stood before current Mayor Pete Aguilar and the rest of Redlands City Council Tuesday night to voice his disapproval of a county contract that will import waste from other areas and deposit it into the San Timoteo Landfill...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues
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Bridgeton residents get offer to move to hotels because of landfill stench
St. Louis Post-DispatchFoul odors from the Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill are expected to get worse this month, prompting the owner to offer nearby residents a free hotel stay away from the site. People who live within a one-mile radius of the landfill were told Tuesday that...Tags: Media Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Natural Resource Industry, Asthma
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No progress yet on new Opry
Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.A large sign on the site of the burned-down Little Nashville Opry suggests a new music venue may open there during 2013. But five months into the year, there's been no construction on the Ind. 46 property just west of Nashville. And no progress has been...Tags: Martinsville (Martinsville, Virginia), Environmental Issues, Prosecution, Nashville Flooding (2010)
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Arrest made in 20 year old Oklahoma cold case
Oklahoma authorities said Thursday that bodies found last month in a hole initially dug for a septic tank were likely those of three females missing since 1992 and that police had arrested a man who sprinkled black pepper on the impromptu grave in an...
Tags: Chad, Environmental Issues, Butterfly Ballots, Black Pepper
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