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Palm Beach County calling for BP to pay for local oil spill preparation costs
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County government wants BP to cover its costs to prepare for an oil spill that never reached local shores. As oil from BP???s failed well billowed for more than two months last year into the Gulf of Mexico,......Tags: Disasters, Emergency Planning, Employment, BP Plc, Fort Lauderdale
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Obama plans second Oval Office address
The Swampby Mike Memoli and Peter Nicholas President Obama will mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq August 31 with a prime-time address from the Oval Office, the White House confirmed today. It would be the president's second address......Tags: Disasters, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Iraq, Mahmoud Abbas
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EPA Debuts New Mileage Sticker Designs
KickingTiresOne of the two designs you see above and below will adorn future cars??? window stickers. The revisions are spurred by the introduction of alternative-fuel vehicles including electrics, plug-in hybrids and others, and you may see them on many 2012......Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Prius, Sports Cars, Toyota, Hair and Nails
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Obama plans Sept. 10 news conference
The Swampby Mike Memoli The White House has announced that President Obama will hold a formal news conference on Friday, Sept. 10, his first in nearly four months. According to CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, the in-house record keeper of the White......Tags: CBS Corp., Disasters, Barack Obama, Radio, Labor Day
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Chairman could soon be out at the South Florida Water Management District
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsA new governor means a changing of the guard could be on the way for the South Florida Water Management District. The four-year-term of District Chairman Eric Buermann expires in March. As chairman, Buermann leads the nine-member board that oversees......Tags: Jeb Bush, Rick Scott, U.S. Sugar Corporation, Charlie Crist, Executive Branch
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Environmentalists, West Coast win a round in South Florida water fight
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsIn the often politically-charged fight over how to divvy up South Florida???s water supply, the West Coast and environmental groups this week moved the needle a little farther their way. The South Florida Water Management District on Thursday agreed to......Tags: Bodies of Water, Fishing, South Florida Water Management District, Water Supply, Florida
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Hey Ware River and Wilson Creek shellfish, don't say we didn't warn you.
Who's on Team Gloucester?Perhaps a celebratory shellfish feast is in order. The Virginia Department of Health's Division of Shellfish Sanitation -- say that five times in a row as fast as you can -- announced earlier this week that 65 acres of water......Tags: Bodies of Water, Seafood, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rivers, Foods and Beverages
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Mileage Labels Confusing, Survey Says
KickingTiresThe recently proposed new car stickers from the EPA are confusing to most potential car shoppers, according to a survey. The vertical sticker with the letter grade was found more confusing than the horizontal one. According to the survey conducted......Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Democratic Party, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Vehicles
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BP to Install EV Charging Ports
KickingTiresBP Products of North America plans to install 45 quick-charging ports for electric cars at its existing gas stations by the end of March 2011. The direct current fast-charging systems (480-volt, three-phase alternating current input) that BP will be...Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Disasters, Tucson, Los Angeles, Emergency Incidents
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Everglades land deal celebrated, but restoration hurdles loom large
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsSheet cake and the ceremonial handing off of deeds for 26,800 acres of farmland marked the celebration Thursday of a newly completed Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. The South Florida Water Management District on Tuesday finalized...Tags: Charlie Crist, Everglades, Health, Renovation, Golf
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Kia Forte Hybrid Concept Revealed at SEMA
KickingTiresKia unveiled a slew of customized vehicles today at the SEMA show in Las Vegas and one of them was a unique Forte Hybrid Concept. The hybrid powertrain includes a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine that operates on propane and is coupled......Tags: Kia, Hybrid Vehicles, Synthetics and Plastics, Vehicles, U.S. Department of Energy
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Weather gloomy for Leonid meteor shower
Maryland WeatherThe annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak in the hours before dawn Wednesday. But the weather forecast is pretty discouraging for those who might have been willing to get up before dawn (or stay up late tonight) to......Tags: Weather, Weather Reports, Environmental Issues
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