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1 hr ago | GroundReport.com

Are We Poisoning Our Waters System With Prescription Drugs, DEET, EPA, And Cocaine?

Chemicals are being discarded into our water systems throughout the country as well as reported by NBC News.Com, reporting that Minnesota's many lakes, remote and isolated urban areas contain a wide range of chemicals which included DEET, EPA, prescription drugs and also cocaine.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Environment, Science

5 hrs ago | KTOO-TV Juneau

Public comment on EPA's Pebble report nearing close

The public comment period is scheduled to end next week on a federal study of large mining impacts in the Bristol Bay region.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

10 hrs ago | Charleston Daily Mail

W.Va. joins fight to EPA greenhouse gas rules

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's governor and attorney general are joining two other states that are seeking to challenge federal environmental rules on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Environmental Law, Law, Charleston, WV, US Governors, Earl Ray Tomblin

14 hrs ago | New Media Journal

House By-Passes Obama on Keystone XL

The House voted 241-175 -- largely along party lines -- to pass legislation that would speed up the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, despite threats of a veto by President Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Lee Terry, Fred Upton, Republican, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Environment, Science

15 hrs ago | KUOW-FM Seattle

Crowdfunding Coal Science In Pacific Northwest

Dan Jaffe, UW-Bothell professor, is using crowdfunding to raise money to study how passing coal trains impact air quality.

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Related Topix: University of Washington Bothell, University of Washington

19 hrs ago | Big News Network.com

Cooper to pay EPA $340K for W.Va. site cleanup

Our eNewspaper network was founded in 2002 to provide stand-alone digital news sites tailored for the most searched-for locations for news.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

Thu May 23, 2013

Patch.com

EPA Adds Attleboro Site to Superfund LIst

Federal officials have decided to spend the money needed to clean an Attleboro property contaminated with chemicals through decades of pollution by a previously existing chrome-plating plant.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Attleboro, MA, Environment, Science

KBND-AM Bend

Chicken fight: Study backs farmer in pollution battle with EPA

West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt didn't chicken out when the Environmental Protection Agency threatened her with fines of $40,000 per day, and even though the federal regulators eventually backed off, she's taking them on in a legal case that could benefit thousands of small farmers.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Environment, Science, Agriculture

Inside Bay Area

My Word: Piedmont's proposed 2013-14 budget -- the highlights

It's budget season in Piedmont, which in my experience is one of the best-kept secrets in town.

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Related Topix: Piedmont, CA, Environmental Law, Law, Opinion

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EPA agrees to settle violations at water treatment plants in Venango, Indiana counties

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to settle water pollution violations at three treatment plants in Indiana and Venango counties that discharge wastewater from Marcellus Shale gas drilling into the Allegheny River watershed.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

WNDU-TV South Bend

South Bend's mayor speaks about LaSalle Park EPA recommendation

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to add three superfund sites in Indiana to its highest priority cleanup list for hazardous waste, and one of those is in South Bend.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

KESQ-TV Palm Desert

4 federal agencies to shut Friday

That's because four federal government agencies will be closed on Friday, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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Related Topix: Tax, Environmental Law, Law, US News

Chicago Tribune

Watchdog update: Bill would give EPA power to ban toxic 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 harmful compounds off the market.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Frank Lautenberg, David Vitter, Republican, Environment, Science, Senator Dick Durbin

WIVB

EPA features WNY project in video

The video highlights the role citizen science has played in raising awareness about pollution from the Tonawanda Coke Corp.

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Related Topix: Tonawanda, NY

Wed May 22, 2013

Patch.com

EPA Citizen Advisory Group for Fridley-Area Superfund Sites Meets Thursday

Fridley's Citizen Advisory Group for local polluted Superfund sites meets on Thursday, May 23, 2013, from 6-8 p.m. at Fridley City Hall .

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Fridley, MN

Creative Loafing Atlanta

Proctor Creek's second chance

Proctor Creek, the waterway that snakes from downtown and through northwest Atlanta before ending in the Chattahoochee River, wasn't always so polluted, says Na'Taki Osborne Jelks.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, Chattahoochee (Atlanta, GA), Bellwood (Atlanta, GA), Environment, Science

GlobeSt.com

Protecting Yourself from Acquisition Environmental Risk

How do you go about protecting yourself from acquiring environmental liability? The best answer is to do a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment .

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

KFDI

May 22, 2013 11:57 a.m.EPA fines Coffeyville refinery $300K

The federal government is fining a southeast Kansas refinery $300,000 for deficiencies in the company's program to curb air pollution.

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Related Topix: Coffeyville, KS, Environmental Law, Law

WATE-TV Knoxville

Harriman site listed as potential Superfund site by EPA

Washington County authorities say a man faked a marriage certificate so he could visit a woman held in the Johnson City Detention Facility.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Harriman, TN, Washington County, TN, Wedding

WATE-TV Knoxville

Employee accused of stealing $50K from Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society

Washington County authorities say a man faked a marriage certificate so he could visit a woman held in the Johnson City Detention Facility.

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Related Topix: Washington County, TN, Harriman, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Tennessee