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Texas joins flood of states suing BP over 2010 Gulf spill
ReutersBy P.J. Huffstutter May 18 (Reuters) - Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District...Tags: Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Water Pollution, Environmental Issues, Oil Spills
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Photos set course for 'Chicago River'
Composer Orbert Davis has drawn inspiration for movements of “The Chicago River,” his new jazz symphony, from particular images in “The Lost Panoramas” by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. Here is a guide to the five movements of...
Tags: Technology, Near North Side, Environmental Issues, Bodies of Water, Plant Openings
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Learning Disability, Depression, Culture, Health, Social Sciences
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Jimmy Orth: Better plan needed for water conservation
In a recent May 8 op-ed, Colleen Castille said that "today, we're too far down the road of water consumption to turn back, but we can move forward with a better plan." I wholeheartedly agree that Florida needs a better plan, one that aggressively focuses...Tags: Water Supply, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Water, Tampa
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Editorial: It's about safe water
A state board assigned to protect the environment is taking a second look at a controversial ruling it issued last year. The Illinois Pollution Control Board will revisit a ruling on groundwater protection at certain dump sites. The board has...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Lisa Madigan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Water
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SCAQMD board member hears it from mostly pro-fire ring crowd
About 50 speakers voiced their opinions on the fire ring controversy Friday afternoon at Huntington Beach's council chambers. South Coast Air Quality Management District board member and Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido sat next to Huntington Beach Mayor...Tags: Local Government, Environmental Issues, Allan R. Mansoor, Air Pollution
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Tesoro is cleared to buy BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations
Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...
Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Auto Trends, BP Plc, Economy, Business and Finance, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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CT, NJ Settlement To Shut Down Coal Units At PA Plant
The Hartford CourantTwo coal-burning units at an eastern Pennsylvania power plant are shutting down as a result of a lawsuit filed by Connecticut and New Jersey to enforce the federal Clean Air Act. The owners of the plant — NRG Energy and GenOn, which combined last...Tags: Standards, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NRG Energy Incorporated, Coal
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Restore waterway safeguards
I was shocked to learn that just this week the U.S. Senate had to defeat an attempt to allow more pollution into the streams and wetlands that feed Lake Michigan. For more than a decade, our waterways have been at risk of increased pollution thanks to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Water Pollution, Evanston, Environmental Issues, Bodies of Water
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Cowboys to carpools
Times Staff Writer1800s * 1889 Rancher Miguel Leonis, known for his rough ways, becomes the area's first recorded traffic death, after getting sloshing drunk and falling out of his wagon in the Cahuenga Pass. Mothers Against Drunk Cowboys is born. 1897 In the dark of...Tags: Society, Entertainment, Santa Monica, Henry Fonda, California
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Panel clears Obama's EPA pick on party-line vote, hurdles ahead in full Senate
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has moved one step closer to getting the job, but it came without Republican support. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday voted...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
PURDUE-PLANE INTO FENCE Plane found in Purdue airport fence; pilot safe WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — The pilot of a small plane that veered into a fence at the Purdue University Airport says the aircraft was experiencing engine trouble before the...Tags: Highway Transportation, Entertainment, Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Peabody Energy Corporation
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