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Walter Piano demolition underway in Elkhart
WSBT-TVELKHART – It’s been in the works for years. Now, demolition work has finally started on a huge vacant factory on Elkhart’s north side. In recent years, the complex started to fall apart becoming a safety concern. Then, there was...Tags: Environmental Issues
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NW Ind. town seeing high radiation levels
TOWN OF PINES, Ind. (AP) — Environmentalists in northwestern Indiana are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study what they say are abnormal radiation levels in a town of about 800 residents. Members of a group called PINES, or...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Chemical fire at Baycote called "fluke"
MISHAWAKA – Local firefighters say the September chemical spill and fire at the Baycote site that forced the evacuations of hundreds of people in Mishawaka was a fluke. That’s what Mishawaka Fire Battalion Chief Jim Cocquet calls it. He...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Fires, Environmental Politics
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EPA: 1st phase of Mishawaka plant cleanup nearly done
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — Federal officials say crews have nearly finished initial cleanup work at a vacant northern Indiana plant hit by a September chemical fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that crews will complete the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Baycote cleanup suspended in Mishawaka
MISHAWAKA – Crews are suspending cleanup work at the site where a chemical leak forced thousands of people in Mishawaka from their homes back in September. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says crews will complete the first phase of...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Benton Harbor golf course could be contaminated
BENTON HARBOR – Part of a Berrien County golf course that recently hosted a Senior PGA event could be contaminated and that has some people worried. The Environmental Protection Agency addressed groundwater concerns during a meeting Tuesday night....
Tags: Sports, Environmental Issues, World War II (1939-1945), Jack Nicklaus, Environmental Politics
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Notre Dame receives grant to fight invasive species
Notre Dame is getting involved in the fight to protect the Great Lakes. The university has received a $599,931 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop technology for early detection of invasive species in the Great Lakes. "By...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, DNA, Environmental Issues, Invasive Species, Science and Technology
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Ryan asked for federal help as he championed cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, a fiscal conservative and critic of federal handouts, has sought for his constituents in Wisconsin an expansion of food stamps, stimulus money, federally guaranteed business loans,...
Tags: Sociology, Technology, Executive Branch, Paul Ryan, Arts and Culture
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Cleanup of Mishawaka chemical fire site will take another month
The cleanup from an abandoned Mishawaka factory that led to evacuations is going to take at least another month. Cleaning up the old Baycote site led to a chemical spill last month and forcing some from their homes. The Environmental Protection Agency...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Feds back research to stop Great Lakes invasions
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal grants will support stepped-up research into ways to prevent invasions of the Great Lakes by foreign animal and plant species, with special emphasis on refining techniques that detect their DNA in the water,...
Tags: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of Notre Dame, DNA, Invasive Species, Research
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UPDATE: Mishawaka evacuees allowed to go back home after chemical leak
The Environmental Protection Agency continues to monitor air around the vacant Baycote Metal Finishing Facility at 1302 Industrial Drive in Mishawaka -- but they have given the OK for people who live nearby to return home after a chemical leak forced them...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Hospitals and Clinics, Environmental Politics
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Former Mishawaka mayor: Baycote has "checkered history"
MISHAWAKA – The EPA remains on the scene this weekend in the 1300 block of Industrial Drive with multiple air quality monitoring stations set up all around the area surrounding the old Baycote site where the chemical leak occurred Friday night. EPA...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Employees, Career and Workplace, Memorial Day
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