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State levies fines against private, public entities for pollution violations
Environmental laws do get enforced, however slowly at times. The Maryland Department of the Environment announced Wednesday it had taken action against about 18 individuals, companies and local governments for alleged violations of the state's laws...
Tags: Maryland Transit Administration, Environmental Politics, Patapsco, Companies and Corporations, Caroline County (Maryland)
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Caring for the environment is politically out of fashion
Weeks after the weird June 29 windstorm that swept the Mid-Atlantic, I can't shake the feeling of being in an episode of "The Twilight Zone," the 1960s TV series that warned of living selfishly. A dash of Rod Serling spiking a large dollop of Catholic...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Politics, Talk Shows (genre), Abraham Lincoln, Bodies of Water
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Best Tweets Obama didn't answer
Why is so little being done for the 6.2 million long-term unemployed? Why have 99ers been abandoned by Congress and White House?
@Layofflist (Mike Thornton)
Why is your administration insisting on prosecuting those who cultivate/distribute medical...Tags: Economic Policy, Environmental Pollution, American Civil Liberties Union, Money and Monetary Policy, Elections
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Potomac named America's most endangered river
The Potomac River, which flows between Maryland and Virginia, was named the nation's "most endangered" waterway today by a Washington-based environmental group. American Rivers put the Potomac atop its annual list of endangered rivers. Though cleaner...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Floods, Natural Resources, Bodies of Water, Rivers
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Kern County's rich oil field of history
Anywhere else, linking an aromatic cup of coffee and a gooey glob of oil would quickly kill a restaurant.
Not so in Taft, Calif., the Taft Crude Coffee House is a popular stop for hot coffee or iced mocha.
And in an era when oil spills tend to be...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Environmental Pollution, Museums, Arts and Culture, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Coastal towns picture perfect on the Florida Panhandle
![It has been 15 years since Seaside, a meticulously manicured town on Florida's Panhandle, staked its claim to fame as the setting for "The Truman Show."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62737924-24124902.jpg "It has been 15 years since Seaside, a meticulously manicured town on Florida's Panhandle, staked its claim to fame as the setting for "The Truman Show.\"")
It has been 15 years since Seaside, a meticulously manicured town on Florida's Panhandle, staked its claim to fame as the setting for "The Truman Show."
In that 1998 film, actor Jim Carrey played the unknowing "star" of a global TV show set in a town...Tags: Orlando, Travel, Panama City (Panama), Restaurants, Television
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Going to jail for the environment
As you read this, two starkly different visions of Maryland's energy future are clashing on a sidewalk outside the White House.
One vision embraces the idea of developing clean-energy wind farms off the coast of Ocean City. Those wind farms could one day...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Renewable Energy, Ocean City, Nebraska, Florida
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Study: Pollution trading could trim bay cleanup costs
![Steep projected costs for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay could be trimmed by billions of dollars, a new study suggests, by allowing polluters to buy "credits" for less-expensive reductions made by others.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-05/69732898-03093655.jpg "Steep projected costs for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay could be trimmed by billions of dollars, a new study suggests, by allowing polluters to buy "credits\" for less-expensive reductions made by others.")
Steep projected costs for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay could be trimmed by billions of dollars, a new study suggests, by allowing polluters to buy "credits" for less-expensive reductions made by others.
The study, presented Thursday to the Chesapeake...Tags: Demographics, Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Politics, Population and Census
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Shell oil rig set for landmark Alaska journey
Los Angeles TimesAmid the tangle of towering steel, heavy cranes and overcast skies of Seattle's busy commercial shipyards, Shell Oil's massive Kulluk drilling rig is preparing to push off for the Arctic Ocean. When it does, America's balance between energy needs and...Tags: Shipbuilding, Petroleum Industry, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Science and Technology, Gulf of Mexico
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India's Top Court Refuses Entry to Exxon Valdez
Channel 2 NewsIndia's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India until the ship responsible for one of the worst U.S. oil spills is decontaminated. A shipbreaking firm bought the vessel to dismantle it, and the ship now known as the Oriental...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, India
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South Dakota¿s Big Sioux among dirtiest rivers in nation
SIOUX FALLS - The Big Sioux River snakes 420 miles down eastern South Dakota. From its headwaters in Roberts County, it gradually drops 800 feet as it cuts through the Coteau des Prairies flatiron and meanders into Iowa and flows into the Missouri River....Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, Environmental Politics, Agriculture, Rivers
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