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London's lost rivers rise again	22.3.2009	Chicago Tribune: Nation
City officials—spurred by improving water quality, growing flood risk and surging community interest in old rivers—push to free London's lost rivers by freeing built-over channels. London officials—spurred by improving water quality, growing flood risk and surging community interest in old rivers—push to free London's lost rivers by freeing built-over channels. The Tribune's Laurie Goering ...
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Houston hazardous waste sites open (w/ video)	21.3.2009	Houston Chronicle: Texas
Even the most seemingly innocuous household chemicals can lead to disaster when carelessly handled.
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Administration's New Sisterhood	18.3.2009	Washington Post
Number of African American women with high- level jobs marks another step in a long journey.
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Ground broken on water treatment plant to remove chemicals at JPL Superfund site	18.3.2009	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
Officials have broken ground on a water treatment plant that will remove pollutants from groundwater near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federal Superfund site.
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Cleaning up someone else's mess	17.3.2009	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
They were the responsible ones: thousands of service station owners and other business people across New England who made the effort to properly dispose of waste oil and antifreeze by sending it to the sprawling Beede Waste Oil Co. in Plaistow, N.H.
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Teck Cominco must pay Colvilles' costs	17.3.2009	Seattle Times: Local
Canadian mining company Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. must pay the legal expenses of two members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, who sued the company over its pollution of the Columbia River in the United States.
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Kaysville man sentenced in hazardous-waste case	17.3.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
A Kaysville furniture restorer who pleaded guilty in November to illegally disposing of hazardous waste was sentenced Monday to serve five months in federal prison and pay a $10,000 fine.
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Shpack cleanup to be completed by 2012, US says	14.3.2009	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
The $73 million cleanup of the Shpack Superfund site - one of only two landfills in New England contaminated by radioactive waste - should be wrapped up by 2012, federal officials told Norton residents last week.
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Where public's anger is all in a day's work	13.3.2009	Boston Globe: Nation
A top US health official said yesterday that his agency is working to improve protection of neighborhoods from toxic pollution as scientists, communities, and the Congress accuse it of taking a path of least resistance in figuring out health hazards.
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Director says he's improving health agency accused of minimizing toxic risks in neighborhoods	13.3.2009	Star Tribune: Politics

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Utah fugitive shot in Florida remains in critical condition	12.3.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
Utah fugitive Larkin Baggett, who was wounded after threatening with a rifle EPA Special Agents and a Monroe County, Florida, Sheriff's Deputy while they were attempting to serve a federal arrest warrant, remains in critical condition in Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida.
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First from EPA environmental fugitive list nabbed	12.3.2009	Boston Globe: Latest
Authorities in Florida shot and wounded one of the country's most wanted environmental crime fugitives after the Salt Lake City man pointed a loaded rifle them, a sheriff's official said.
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First from EPA environmental fugitive list nabbed	11.3.2009	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Authorities in Florida shot and wounded one of the country's most wanted environmental crime fugitives after the Salt Lake City man pointed a loaded rifle them, a sheriff's official said.
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Appeals court affirms Wash. waste authority	11.3.2009	AP Washington
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state has authority to regulate mixed hazardous and transuranic wastes buried at the Hanford nuclear reservation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday....
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Appeals court affirms Wash. waste authority	11.3.2009	Seattle Times: Local
Washington state has authority to regulate mixed hazardous and transuranic wastes buried at the Hanford nuclear reservation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
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EPA to study, regulate coal ash waste after spill	10.3.2009	Seattle Times: Politics
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday launched a review of coal ash storage facilities and said it would draft regulations for coal ash by the end of the year.
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EPA to study, regulate coal ash waste after spill	10.3.2009	AP Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday launched a review of coal ash storage facilities and said it would draft regulations for coal ash by the end of the year....
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Treatment Plant Uncorks French Vintners' Rage (Cached)	8.3.2009	Washington Post World
GIVRY, France -- For more than 1,000 years, monks and peasants have coaxed a light-hearted Burgundy from the gently sloping vineyards that rise from this little village in eastern France. Henri IV declared it his favorite 400 years ago, the legend goes, and it is safe to say that without the wine...
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State says N. Idaho needs new hazardous waste site	28.2.2009	AP Washington
KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) -- Environmental officials say Idaho's Silver Valley will soon need a new hazardous waste site to dump tainted soil removed during Superfund clean ups of mining waste....
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State says N. Idaho needs new hazardous waste site	28.2.2009	Seattle Times: Local
Environmental officials say Idaho's Silver Valley will soon need a new hazardous waste site to dump tainted soil removed during Superfund clean ups of mining waste.
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