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  • EPA calls for speeding up Everglades water cleanup
    Sep 4, 2010 — Sun Sentinel
    Charlie Crist's Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. The EPA issued a new plan for reviving stalled phosphorus cleanup requirements.
  • EPA gives Florida new Everglades cleanup guidelines
    Sep 4, 2010 — The Miami Herald
    Last month, the South Florida Water Management District approved the latest version of the thrice-shrunk deal. Gold argued state lawmakers had crafted "incomprehensible" rules that opened loopholes effectively pushing back a 2006 deadline by a decade.
  • Make your patio a year-round paradise
    Sep 4, 2010 — Tulsa World
    For dirtier spots, use a sponge, mild soap and cold water to wash. Use the bleach/soap/water recipe above on mildew. Aluminum, wrought iron and steel frames: Clean with water and mild soap. He uses his patio and grills year-round.
  • Spotlight Shifts to Shallow-Water Wells
    Sep 4, 2010 — New York Times
    Bromwich has been carefully reviewing shallow-water drilling as he draws up new regulations governing the industry. There were no injuries, no spill, and the fire was extinguished.”Early reports of Thursday’s accident suggested another spill had occurred. But Coast Guard officials said on Friday that only a patch of light rainbow sheen, measuring about 100 yards by 10 yards, had been spotted in morning flights over the area around the platform.
  • BRIEF
    Sep 3, 2010 — Contra Costa Times
    ...smog concentrations peak. This is the fifth smog alert issued this season by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which regulates air pollution in seven Bay Area counties and the southern parts of Sonoma and Solano counties. Spare the Air alerts are issued when the air district predicts unhealthy concentrations of smog, which can trigger asthma attacks and contribute to a variety of lung and heart ailments. Smog concentrations are expected to ease this weekend...
  • No injuries, no leak in oil-rig fire, but safety worries remain
    Sep 3, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    But 486 of those were considered "incidental," meaning they caused damage of $25,000 or less. Every industry has them."Cassidy said the crew had been performing maintenance on the platform Thursday morning, painting and cleaning with high-powered water blasters.
  • 'Fracking' yields fuel, fear in Northeast
    Sep 2, 2010 — CNN
    The natural gas reserve is attracting a flurry of gas companies wanting to drill. The potentially adverse effects of fracturing also have those living near natural gas wells concerned, including Ely. During its investigation that year, the Pennsylvania DEP collected samples from water wells that provide drinking water to 13 homes near the Cabot natural gas wells.
  • 'Fracking' yields fuel, fears about water
    Sep 2, 2010 — CNN
    The natural gas reserve is attracting a flurry of gas companies wanting to drill. During its investigation that year, the Pennsylvania DEP collected samples from water wells that provide drinking water to 13 homes near the Cabot natural gas wells. He fears fracking will eventually pollute the Delaware River. "I'm not a tree-hugger, I'm not a river-hugger.
  • Can racing save the environment?
    Sep 2, 2010 — CNN
    To Native Energy, the answer was face the doubters. And NASCAR is doing better, too, Munter said. Munter hopes to get back on track at the end of September at an ARCA event in Kansas City, Kansas.
  • Energy workers speak out
    Sep 2, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    Gene Green and Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston and Republican Rep.
  • Oregon to buy equipment to test water's algae content
    Sep 2, 2010 — The Blade
    However, those levels were well below guidelines established by the World Health Organization. Levels ranged from 0.24 part per billion to 3.7 parts per billion.
  • Suffolk Water Authority rejects water line to Orient
    Sep 2, 2010 — Newsday
    ...a yearlong battle, the Suffolk Water Authority has given up plans to extend public water from East Marion to Orient and instead will seek to redirect $1.9 million in federal stimulus funds to bring public water to 200 Calverton homeowners. The decision came Tuesday night after the authority board in a 3-2 vote rejected going to court to overturn Southold town trustees' refusal to grant a permit for the 3-mile water line. The authority had proposed to extend the line so it could...
  • Why is this town's water flammable?
    Sep 2, 2010 — CNN
    The natural gas reserve is attracting a flurry of gas companies wanting to drill. This process fractures the shale around the well, which allows the natural gas to flow freely, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. During its investigation that year, the Pennsylvania DEP collected samples from water wells that provide drinking water to 13 homes near the Cabot natural gas wells.
  • EPA rejects pollution permit system
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    ...degrade local air quality. As with several other Texas programs, the EPA said Texas' new source review system did not guarantee that emissions remained below acceptable levels. The EPA also says Texas does not allow enough public scrutiny of pending permits. Texas rejects those claims and says its system is a model for the country. The EPA said it will work with industries and Texas officials to make sure companies can obtain permits that comply with federal law.
  • Fresh Air for Sale in Hong Kong
    Sep 1, 2010 — New York Times
    BETTINA WASSENERHONG KONG — ‘‘Do your feeble breathing skills let you down? Pollution is a perpetual bane in Hong Kong — thanks both to roadside pollution and to fumes produced by factories across the border, in mainland Chinese cities like Shenzhen. Wu, clad in a lilac sweater, claims, beaming at the camera.
  • Uncertainty remains as landowners band together
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    There are other red flags, said gas industry experts who are following or have been briefed on the deal. Usually they're farm owners or neighbors trying to strike a leasing deal by banding together with 25,000 or 35,000 acres. Multinational energy companies have paid for three multibillion-dollar deals in the state since December. MDS controls about 50,000 acres, President Michael Snyder said.
  • Wonkbook: Jobs bill details sketched; unions target boardrooms; new oil reg rules
    Sep 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    Meanwhile, an SEC decision expanding shareholder power over corporate boards has led unions to consider installing their supporters on target companies' boards. It's not clear what those tax breaks would target or how much they might cost in lost revenue to the government. That the Reagan and Bush tax cuts went disproportionately to high-income households, which save more of their income, did not help, either.
  • EPA cites coke plant for cyanide violations
    Aug 31, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    ...-- Tonawanda Coke is in hot water with the Environmental Protection Agency again. This time it's for putting elevated amounts of cyanide into the Town of Tonawanda's sanitary sewer system, which ultimately discharges into the Niagara River after being treated. The EPA on Thursday ordered the coke manufacturing plant to comply with its Clean Water Act permit and to properly monitor and treat the wastewater that results from the coke-making process. The EPA order follows...
  • Raleigh installs large cisterns to save water at fire stations
    Aug 31, 2010 — The News and Observer
    Half of that is to be repaid as a 20-year, no-interest loan.
  • Clean water debate coming back to First Coast
    Aug 30, 2010 — The Florida Times-Union
    Marys River in Nassau County, and Tolomato and Matanzas rivers in St. Members of Congress have also opposed them. The state and federal work represent "two simultaneous paths being followed here," said Dee Ann Miller, an EPA spokeswoman. Augustine. "It's more cost-effective to maintain those levels of water quality than to go back and fix them like we are with the St.
  • Pennsylvania coal plants face big changes under planned EPA pollution-control rules
    Aug 30, 2010 — The Philadelphia Inquirer
    Pennsylvania, a coal powerhouse, stands at the vortex of the issue. Its residents have much to gain from the rule's health benefits. But its fleet of geriatric coal plants has much to lose. Moreover, this and other regulations in the chute put the industry at a crossroads. Though emissions would drop 52 percent overall, Pennsylvania plants would reduce them just 40 percent.
  • A time to mourn in Pakistan
    Aug 29, 2010 — CNN
    Aslam Noon knows the pain of those discoveries. On Sunday, he and several other relatives mourned four children, including Noon's own young son, from their family. Hundreds of thousands of victims have acquired transmittable ailments such as acute watery diarrhea, scabies and respiratory infections.
  • Jobs are top issue in Senate battle
    Aug 29, 2010 — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    This is the part of Carnahan's jobs' plan that gets most specific. The bill included tax breaks for small businesses such as the ones Carnahan supports. Blunt called it too expensive. Carnahan said she wanted to "reshuffle" the various subsidies the government now gives to oil companies and use that money for other business incentives.
  • Oklahoma companies, tribes donate millions to national political groups
    Aug 29, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
    The Democratic Governors Association reported a $25,000 contribution from Chesapeake in May. The Democratic Governors Association raised $40.2 million during the same period. Gaddie said upcoming redistricting battles in several states are helping drive contributions to the governors associations. The tribe also contributed $100,000 to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Chickasaw Nation Gov.
  • Paddling event promotes clean water
    Aug 29, 2010 — The Knoxville News-Sentinel
    I liked that a lot," said Mike Lenzie, chief financial officer of Aqua-Chem, a major sponsor of the event.
  • Toxic algae blooms choking Lake Erie
    Aug 29, 2010 — The Blade
    Biologists such as Roger Knight, who manages Ohio's Lake Erie fisheries program, are drawing correlations between algae-induced oxygen losses and below-average walleye hatches. Satchwell said. Advisories Algae testing began this month. The impetus has been the public outcry over the massive algae blooms in Grand Lake St.
  • More deaths feared as flood recedes
    Aug 28, 2010 — CNN
    We fear the deadly synergy of waterborne diseases, including diarrhea, dehydration and malnutrition." Acute malnutrition was high in much of Pakistan even before the floods. Flood waters have started to recede across Pakistan, but in the Indus River delta, the potential for more flooding remained high. CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Reza Sayah, Samson Desta, Sara Sidner, Moni Basu and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report.
  • Biosolids Tracking Efforts a Jumble of Research With No Clear Answers
    Aug 26, 2010 — New York Times
    Alabama, where PFOAs ended up in biosolids and contaminating water wells in Decatur, does not have state rules. Two out of 13 complaints were about biosolids, he said. I told her that it was the Health Dept.'s responsibility to determine potential health impacts of biosolids.
  • Op-Ed Contributor: Pakistan, Drowning in Neglect
    Aug 26, 2010 — New York Times
    On the Sindhi side lived a land-owning politician who wanted to cut a hole in the highway that would divert the water to this very town. What were soldiers doing on the highway?The answer came in evasive, fragmented sentences: there was an airbase on the Sindhi side of the highway. The area around the highway is under 16 feet of water.
  • OPINION
    Aug 26, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Not really: The state already regulates how much phosphorus sewage plants can discharge. This remnant phosphorus will cost about $200 per pound to remove. And for not much benefit: Most phosphorus comes from farm runoff. Milwaukee Riverkeeper, the Sierra Club and others instead used lawyers to shove the EPA into levering the DNR into making you pay a lot more.
  • Parental safety Net: From brainy blogs to coupons, these websites give new parents backup::
    Aug 26, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    Then, your doctor lets you out of the hospital and you drive home with your new bundle of joy _ and not much more. Turn to it for information on children's health and parenting, too, and even coupons.Why it's bookmarked: It's hard to pick just one reason. It's the leading source for medical information and news.Why it's bookmarked: This site has talked many new parents off the fear ledge.
  • With Hill Hopes for Climate Bill Dashed, Advocates Circle Wagons at EPA
    Aug 26, 2010 — New York Times
    Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who plans to seek a vote this year on a bill that would prohibit the agency from regulating stationary sources' emissions for two years. But the final rule set a significantly higher threshold with plans to phase in smaller sources over time. All Rights Reserved.For more news on energy and the environment, visit www.greenwire.com.Greenwire is published by Environment & Energy Publishing.
  • New Yorkers Begin to See How Much They Have to Lose From Climate Change
    Aug 25, 2010 — New York Times
    By DARIUS DIXON ofNEW YORK -- Lowering the energy consumption of the Empire State Building may seem bold and significant -- and it is. The New York City Panel on Climate Change, or NPCC, was modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Falling in behind other cities like Chicago and Houston, New York ranked 10th in its number of Energy Star buildings.
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