Archive for the ‘Green Q&A’ Category

Rally against ‘fracking’ draws hundreds to Albany
MARY ESCH Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. Environmental groups from across New York rallied at the state Capitol on Monday, calling on lawmakers to protect the environment and the public against potential hazards related to high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region that spans the southern half of New York and parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The …
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N.D. Ag Department urges protecting pesticides from flooding
BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is advising farmers, ranchers, homeowners and other persons with pesticides or fertilizers to the necessary steps to prevent flood contamination of and by these chemicals.
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Business events scheduled for Tuesday
By The Associated Press Major business and economic events scheduled for Tuesday:
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YMCA T-ball nears season
The Atmore Area YMCA is finalizing its signups for T-ball with practices scheduled to begin in the next week. Children from ages three to five have the chance to play T-ball at the Y in what is a good family environment.
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m bill to truck sand for beaches
TRUCKING sand between Adelaide beaches to counter erosion will cost taxpayers $ 10 million over 10 years, new figures show.
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Hoyer blames Republicans for continuing threat of shutdown, accuses them of demanding too much
WASHINGTON — The No. 2 Democrat in the House says lawmakers trying to avert a government shutdown have come “70 percent of the way on the numbers” in budget talks, but are still fighting over social policies such as abortion and the environment.
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Mecca smell investigation leads to plant crackdown
State regulators started cracking down this week on the soil-recycling plant that’s believed to be causing a foul odor that’s sickened scores of Mecca residents.
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K offered after woman’s body found at downtown LA recycling center
A $ 50,000 reward is being offered to anyone who can help police solve a murder at a downtown Los Angeles recycling center.
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Clean Harbors Recycling Center Achieves Safety Milestone
Marks 300,000 hours without a lost-time incident CHICAGO – April 5, 2011 – Clean Harbors, North America’s leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services, today announced that its Solvent Recycling Center located here has surpassed 300,000 manhours without a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable or lost-time incident. This outstanding safety …
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Piles of paper burning at southwest Phoenix plant
PHOENIX (AP) – Nearly 100 firefighters from Phoenix and other fire departments are battling a paper fire at a southwest Phoenix recycling plant.
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Clean Harbors Recycling Center Achieves Safety Milestone
Marks 300,000 hours without a lost-time incident CHICAGO – April 5, 2011 – Clean Harbors, North America’s leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services, today announced that its Solvent Recycling Center located here has surpassed 300,000 manhours without a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable or lost-time incident. This outstanding safety …
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Poll: Few confident US ready for nuclear emergency
Most Americans doubt the U.S. government is prepared to respond to a nuclear emergency like the one in Japan, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. But it also shows few Americans believe such an emergency would occur.
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Tele Dynamics Sdn Bhd staff and SR Sri Nobel pupils all set to start tree planting campaign.
KEPONG: Tele Dynamics Sdn Bhd is celebrating its 30th anniversary by launching its Toshiba e-STUDIO, Empower the Environment Tree-Planting Green Campaign.
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Study finds messy streets increase discrimination
LONDON, April 7 (Reuters Life!) – Dutch scientists have found that a messy environment can make people long for order and inspire them to simplify or categorise things in their minds.
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Salt Shakes
Paperback Rider The newest addition to recycling blue bins—paperbacks—are probably gathering dust on a bookshelf in your home. But before you decide to chuck that book, consider donating it to a local library or retirement home. If it’s truly beyond its useful life, toss it into your blue bin.
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News briefs for April 6
The Boyle County Recycling Center will have a document destruction days 8 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Saturday at the recycling center located at 1862 South Danville By-pass. Personal and confidential documents will be shredded free for residents of Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln and Mercer Counties.
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Rubbish idea
Clothes thief becomes trapped in recycling bin for four hours
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Buyer’s ‘aware’ of ponds
Sellers of subdivided land from the former Hawthorn Estate development at the centre of resource consent controversy after last week’s Environment Court ruling made the originally proposed water features mandatory, say their potential buyers were always made aware of the issue. read more
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Cheetah Technologies NAB Presentation to Discuss Need to Enhance 3DTV QoE
PITTSBURGH, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The need for enhanced monitoring to ensure highest levels of Quality of Experience in a 3D environment will be discussed by Cheetah Technologies executive Jeremy Bennington in a presentation at the NAB Show next week in Las Vegas. Bennington, vice president and general manager of Cheetah V-Factor, will speak about how proactive network monitoring and …
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Many fans don’t feel secure at Dodger Stadium
Opening-day attack opens the floodgates from emailers about safety concerns at what used to be a family-friendly environment. Tom Lasorda calls it “heaven on earth.”
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Protein Adaptation Shows Life on Early Earth Lived in a Hot, Acidic Environment
A new study reveals that a group of ancient enzymes adapted to substantial changes in ocean temperature and acidity during the last four billion years, providing evidence that life on Early Earth evolved from a much hotter, more acidic environment to the cooler, less acidic global environment today.
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Crater focus for drilling plans
A spate of deep-sea drilling projects includes plans to plumb the crater linked to the end of the dinosaurs, researchers say.
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New planning system agreed
A new system for considering planning applications was agreed by the Northern Ireland Assembly, just before it was dissolved for May’s elections. Related Stories The Business On… Bob Dudley, chief executive, BP Rates set to rise but no need to panic Is NI really good for business? Defying the poisoned flute Weighing up inflation
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Kings Island’s dinosaur project puts area man in time crunch
WARREN COUNTY — It took hundreds of millions of years for dinosaurs to make their way to Ohio’s Largest Playground, and a Mason man has been given just a few months to make their new home, well, home.Creating an outdoor environment for about 60 life-sized dinosaurs, in an area called Dinosaur Alive Park, is the task at hand for Jeff Gramke, manager of facilities, engineering, and construction at …
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T3 gets Indian airports’ first gold rating for green buildings
New Delhi, Apr 4 (PTI) In a first for an Indian airport, the swanky new Terminal 3 (T3) of the IGI airport here has been awarded the LEED gold rating for green buildings in recognition of its environment-friendly features.
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Picture of Health: All Children’s Hospital newest Hopkins addition
Meredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends.
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School collecting old cellphones for money
By Lisa Singleton-Rickman Staff Writer The Colbert County High School Student Council is collecting old cellphones in hopes of winning an iPad and collecting cash for its school.
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Mercury in new light bulbs not being recycled, escaping to environment
Energy-efficient bulbs replacing wasteful incandescent lights each contain up to 5 milligrams of neurotoxic chemical.
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Ask Waste Watchers: Learning how to dispose of your batteries the right way
Which types of household batteries can be safely discarded with my regular garbage, and which types of batteries should I be recycling? Thanks for the question, Brenda, and for choosing to dispose of your batteries responsibly.
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