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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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Families in Ohio cancer cluster suing Whirlpool
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Families whose children have been among dozens sickened in an Ohio cancer cluster for more than a decade are hopeful that they've come up with a cause. Environmental testing paid for by the families found a suspected cancer-...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Plant Openings, Medical Procedures and Tests, Trials, Environmental Issues
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Appeals court rules on ethanol refinery pollutants
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State environmental regulators improperly changed state rules to allow Indiana ethanol refineries to release an extra 150 tons of air pollutants per year, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The appeals court overturned...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ethanol, Biofuels, Renewable Energy
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Obama budget seeks $300M for Great Lakes cleanup
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama asked Congress on Wednesday to continue a program that has spent more than $1 billion dealing with some of the Great Lakes' longest running environmental problems. Obama's budget for the 2014...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Science and Technology
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Locals react to new EPA regulations
Would you pay more at the pump if it meant a cleaner environment? New regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency are designed to reduce gas emissions resulting in cleaner air. The White House says the change would raise gas prices by about a...
Tags: American Petroleum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Insurance Cost, Environmental Issues, Petroleum Industry
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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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fires, Environmental Issues
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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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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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, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Jack Nicklaus, Environmental Issues, World War II (1939-1945)
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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: Aquaculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science and Technology, Invasive Species, Chemical Industry
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Environmental Issues, The Associated Press
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