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2 hrs ago | 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

3 hrs ago | 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

6 hrs ago | 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

WTHR-TV Indianapolis

$3.4M Lilly grant to help Indianapolis district

A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's troubled immigration system is headed to the full Senate after approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Indianapolis, IN, Speedway, IN, Environmental Law, Law

WIBW-TV Topeka

Feds Put Iola Site On Cleanup Priorities List

The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it was placing the former United Zinc & Associated Smelters Site on the federal Superfund National Priorities List.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

Examiner.com

U-M commits almost $570,000 in Great Lakes-focused research grants

The University of Michigan Water Center announced today that it has committed almost $570,000 in research grants to a dozen separate projects whose common goal will be to investigate ways to protect and restore the health of the Great Lakes, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says contain more than 80% of the surface fresh water in ... (more)

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law

Herald Star Online

EPA finds exceptional biology in watershed

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday afternoon biology was found to be exceptional to very good at several sites on select Ohio River tributaries including Island Creek, Croxton Run and Wills Creek and 10 other sites in Jefferson and Harrison counties.

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Related Topix: Jefferson County, OH, Entomology, Science, Wintersville, OH, E. Coli, Health, Agriculture

Tue May 21, 2013

American Forests

Logging Roads and the Clean Water Act

It doesn't really matter what your political party affiliation is: There are times when you hear about a Supreme Court ruling, and you are left scratching your head.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat

SeacoastOnline

Great Bay deserves representation in fight with EPA

As a resident and business owner in Newmarket, I have an enduring love for my town.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Newmarket, NH, Environment, Science, US Politics, Representative Carol Shea-Porter, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Opinion

Mississippi Business Journal

EPA looking to minimize chemical releases during hurricanes

GULF OF MEXICO - As hurricane season approaches, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is issuing a Hazardous Weather Release Prevention and Reporting alert to remind facility operators of certain regulations that require minimization of chemical releases during process shutdown operations.

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NewsOn6 Tulsa

EPA Wants Former Creek County Refinery On SuperFund List

The EPA wants to add a former Creek County oil refinery to the Superfund list. The 125-acre site is located on the northeast side of Bristow on West 221st Street.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Creek County, OK, Bristow, OK

The Globe and Mail

Crisis-hit Argentine biodiesel sector eyes U.S. market

A biodiesel plant in Ocana, Spain. Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to the U.S. market and revitalize a local industry in 'crisis' due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Biofuel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

New Media Journal

Lawmakers to Investigate Epa Foia Obstruction

Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Nevada County school gets EPA grant to clean up toxic site at future campus

The Yuba River Charter School stresses love of the arts and the outdoors in a "whole child" learning program "to serve the whole world." Yet when administrators and parents for the unique Nevada County school went looking for pastoral locations for a new campus, they ran into a world of abandoned mines and toxic contamination from the region's gold ... (more)

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Nevada County, CA, Nevada City, CA, Grass Valley, CA