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For Illinois counties, fracking taxes could be too little, too late
Tribune reporterIn Illinois counties with large Amish communities, a $50-a-year buggy license plate tax pays for repairs caused by horse hooves and buggy wheels cutting into roads' soft tar surfaces. Kelly Murray is trying to imagine how those same communities...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Resources, Conservation, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Public Comment Period on Pebble Report Nearing Deadline
Channel 2 NewsThe public comment period is scheduled to end next week on a federal study of large mining impacts in the Bristol Bay region. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set May 31 as the deadline for comments on its revised watershed assessment. The...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Oceania Cruises, Environmental Cleanup, Entertainment, Princess Cruises, Clubs and Associations
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Out of the Blue: Stand up against Monsanto
If you believe you have a right to know what you put in your body, join us at 11 a.m. Saturday at Main Beach for the March Against Monsanto. If you believe our Aliso Beach fire pits are a sacred right to enjoy a bonfire at the beach, let your local...Tags: Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Business Enterprises, Occupy Wall Street, Diabetes
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Robert Redford's plea: Save Bristol Bay
Coursing through vast reaches of Alaskan tundra, glacial lakes and emerald forests, six major river systems converge along the rim of the Bering Sea to form the crystalline waters of Bristol Bay, the richest wild salmon grounds in the world. Yet if...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Metal and Mineral, Mining, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northern Dynasty Minerals Limited
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Tribune series had a therapeutic effect
I thank Heidi Prescott for her series "Gone too soon" in The Tribune. I experienced a miscarriage in 1971 and I didn't have the moral support that is available to families today. My dad and two of my friends were all I had. My son and his wife lost...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Skin Cancer, Washington, DC, Health Treatments, Environmental Issues
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Bipartisan Senate bill would give EPA power to ban dangerous chemicals
In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to force...Tags: Consumer Confidence, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, David Vitter, Frank Lautenberg, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Final Route 219 permit in place
The final permit for the long-awaited Route 219 four-lane extension from Somerset to Meyersdale has been approved. U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Hollidaysburg, made the announcement Wednesday saying construction of the 11-mile project is set to begin late...
Tags: U.S. Army, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Cleanup, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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Water district head leaving to take environmental consulting job
Sun SentinelMelissa Meeker is stepping down as head of the South Florida Water Management District to take a private sector job with a Stuart-based environmental consulting firm. Meeker resigned Monday after two years leading the agency that is charged with...Tags: Government, Environmental Cleanup, Water, Employment Opportunities, Rick Scott
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EPA names South Bend park as possible Superfund site
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND -- The Environmental Protection Agency is considering adding a popular park to a list of the country's most contaminated industrial sites in most need of cleanup. LaSalle Park and Beck’s Lake on the northwest side of town was once...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Water district leader submits resignation letter
The head of the South Florida Water Management District resigned Monday, leaving after just two years and creating another leadership shakeup for the far-reaching agency charged with guarding against flooding and leading Everglades restoration....
Tags: Government, Environmental Cleanup, Employment Opportunities, Water, Rick Scott
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South Florida Water Management District head resigns
Sun SentinelThe head of the South Florida Water Management District resigned Monday, leaving after just two years and creating another leadership shakeup for the far-reaching agency charged with guarding against flooding and leading Everglades restoration....Tags: Government, Politics, Everglades, Environmental Cleanup, Rick Scott
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