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Palm Beach County calling for BP to pay for local oil spill preparation costs
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County government wants BP to cover its costs to prepare for an oil spill that never reached local shores. As oil from BP???s failed well billowed for more than two months last year into the Gulf of Mexico,......Tags: Employment, Emergency Planning, BP Plc, Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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Pentagon, EPA at odds
The SwampBy Josh Mitchell and wire reports The Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped....Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland, Hawaii, Alabama, Water
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Ten for Wednesday: Sky not falling, yet
Spin CycleThe Fed agrees to an $85 billion rescue plan putting your money at risk to bail out of AIG for the stupid investments a bunch of millionaire financial whizzes made, thus preventing, at least for now, a collapse of......Tags: Scranton, Suffolk County (New York), New York, Politics, John McCain
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Sarah Palin: 'Economy is a mess'
The Swampby Mark Silva: Sarah Palin says this about the American economy: "Certainly it is a mess... The economy is a mess.'' Not quite the words the Bush White House had in mind. She says so in an interview with Sean......Tags: Sarah Palin, Executive Branch, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Sean Hannity
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Bush's pardon roster: Sparing once more
The Swampby Mark Silva It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the Justice Department, with word that President Bush has offered clemency to several convicts, as presidents are wont to do near the ends of their terms. Yet, this......Tags: Punishment, Alabama, Robert Earl, Colorado Springs, Government
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Sarah Palin: 'Drill here, drill now'
The Swampby Mark Silva The Alaskan who made "Drill, Baby, Drill'' a standard term in the modern American political lexicon says the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, potentially the worst ever off-shore from American coastlines, is no cause......Tags: Sarah Palin, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Mexico, Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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Analog response for Drilling 2.0
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley The federal agency charged with regulating oil and gas drilling offshore has failed to keep up, my colleague Julie Cart and I wrote in Tribune Newspapers this weekend, as offshore exploration raced into a bold new world......Tags: Energy Resources, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), BP Plc, Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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Oil spill: A 'butt-naked' cleanup emperor
The SwampWorkers check for tar balls and other signs of the oil spill on Dauphin Island in Alabama Friday (EPA/Larry W. Smith) by Kim Geiger In light of the news today that BP and Coast Guard officials may have seriously......Tags: Alabama, Purdue University, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Water Pollution, BP Plc
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$836 Million Could Lure Energy Companies to Old GM Sites
KickingTiresThe Obama administration has proposed setting up an $836 million trust fund to lure companies that build energy-efficient technology to abandoned GM plants. Using no new government money, the trust would be used for environmental cleanup at old GM sites.....Tags: General Electric Company, Politics, Plant Openings, Energy Saving, Barack Obama
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Adm. Allen: At the center of the spill
The SwampCoast Guard Adm. Thad Allen addresses the media Tuesday in New Orleans. (AP/Cheryl Gerber) by Jim Tankersley Response Day 37 began at 6 a.m. with a weather report, then an accounting of boats, burns and recon flights. Inside a......Tags: Death, Miami Dolphins, U.S. Department of the Interior, Natural Disasters, Government
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Obama lays out Gulf "battle plan"
The SwampPresident Obama's address, as prepared for delivery, is available after the jump.......Tags: Alabama, Research and Development, Natural Disasters, Economy, Business and Finance, Government
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PennDOT's construction-debris site: Is it really a standard model?
Q: As a former compost-site operator, I think PennDOT's storage area for construction debris at the Tilghman Street interchange of Route 309 is in violation of state Department of Environmental Protection guidelines. From what I gather through Google's...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Google Inc., Environmental Politics, Allentown
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