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Colleen Castille: The right path for Florida's water future
Every day, news outlets highlight Florida's water challenges: Rising sea level, drought, and concerns about water quality. Today, Florida is over-pumping our groundwater aquifer — a finite water source — and consuming water at an...Tags: Natural Disasters, Water, Droughts, Conservation, Bodies of Water
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Frankfort buys site for $5.1 million wells, water tower project
Builders and homebuyers eying southeast Frankfort now know where they will get their water. Village trustees recently inked a $150,000 deal to secure 2.2 acres of vacant land just north of the Frankfort Fire Protection District's Station 4, at 80th...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Economy, Business and Finance, Manufacturing and Engineering, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance
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Lawmakers retreat from high-profile energy legislation
After a 2012 focused on major long-term energy issues, the Legislature retreated a bit from high profile energy legislation this year. Instead, attention was more narrowly focused on altering existing laws regarding the construction of nuclear power...Tags: Politics, Business, Government, Sales, Environmental Cleanup
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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...
Tags: Mountains, National Parks, Ecosystems, Weather, Glaciers
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Ordinance for proposed sewer rate increase being read Thursday
matthewu@herald-mail.comA proposed rate increase in Martinsburg’s sewer rates due to a major wastewater treatment plant upgrade would push the average monthly bill more than $24 higher in July 2015. An ordinance providing for the sewer rate increase is scheduled to be...Tags: Politics, Government, Water, Business Enterprises, Environmental Issues
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OUC moving all service requests online or to automated-phone systems
Orlando's electric-and-water utility will soon rely heavily on the Internet and automated-telephone options for customer payments and nearly all service requests, though it will also add to its network several hundred retail outlets where payments only...Tags: CVS Corp., Walmart, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Marketing
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Obituary: Vernon V. Clements
Vernon V. Clements 1940-2013 LIBERTY — Vernon Verl Clements, 73, of Liberty, died Monday. Born Feb. 16, 1940, in Clementsville, he was a son of the late Shelby and Essie Davis Clements. He was a waste water treatment operator and an Army... -
Hanks: visionary, difficult
Staff WriterHis supporters call him a visionary. His detractors call him a megalomaniac. All agree that he is determined. And now that he is no longer the minority voice in a 3 to 2 voting bloc on the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors, James Cleo...Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Conservation, Board of Directors, Elections
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Barrick says mine in Chile needs $29 mln to meet regulator rules
ReutersSANTIAGO, May 10 (Reuters) - Barrick Gold Corp's has estimated it must invest about $29 million to meet environmental standards at its suspended Pascua-Lama mine, a filing with Chile's environmental regulator showed. It is unclear if this figure includes...Tags: Chile, Barrick Gold Corporation
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Lewis & Clark board struggles to find funding for water project
SIOUX FALLS - Following a second straight year when it has received too little federal money to do any construction, the board of the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System is considering dramatic options to complete the project. Sioux Falls began...Tags: Barack Obama
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Gator attacked man fleeing from traffic stop
FloriDUHYou could say the jaws of justice took another bite out of crime. Deputies pulled over Bryan Zuniga on Thursday about 3:00 a.m. or for failing to maintain a single lane, according to a news release from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. After... -
Man running from deputies attacked by alligator
A Florida man fleeing a traffic stop was attacked by an alligator Thursday, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Deputies attempted to pull Bryan Zuniga, 20, over for not driving in a single lane around 2:47 a.m. near the 7100 block of...
Tags: Pinellas County (Florida)
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