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Fire near downtown Indy forces evacuations
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A fire engulfed a sprawling mixed-use building near downtown Indianapolis filled with tires and wooden pallets Saturday, producing a towering pillar of black smoke that prompted the evacuation of a five-block area surrounding the...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fires, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Business, Environmental Issues
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Enviros: New Ind. BP refinery permit falls short of protecting Lake Michigan
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An environmental group that helped push BP PLC to a multimillion-dollar settlement last year over air emissions at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery says the sprawling complex's revised wastewater permit falls short of what's...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Conservation, BP Plc, Heavy Engineering, Environmental Pollution
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NJ man sets house on fire trying to kill bedbugs
WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey house fire is being blamed on a homeowner's battle against bedbugs. A county spokeswoman says the homeowner in the southern New Jersey town of Woodbury was using a space heater, a hair dryer and a heat gun...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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EPA action adds to mystery, concern about pollution of Beck's Lake site
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- News this past week that the Environmental Protection Agency is targeting Beck's Lake, commonly known as LaSalle Park, for possible cleanup came as no surprise to Bernita Johnson, who has suspected for years that harmful substances lurk...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dwayne Johnson, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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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, Trials, Whirlpool Corp., Family
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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: Biofuels, Natural Resources Defense Council, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Conservation, Agriculture
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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. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science and Technology, Budgets and Budgeting, Lakes and Ponds
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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: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petroleum Industry, American Petroleum, Health Insurance Cost, 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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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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