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Cross: Clear the air over EPA's actions
FRANKFORT — To hear Kentucky politicians of both parties tell it, the Environmental Protection Agency should be renamed the Economic Destruction Agency. But their recent rhetoric has gone far beyond reality and obscured it.
At issue are the EPA&...Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, Republican Party, Journalism, Washington (U.S. state)
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When public infrastructure goes private
Consider some of the things that have bound our nation together: Universal postal service at a flat rate, whether you live in Santa Monica or Sitka, Alaska. Interstate highways, built with taxpayer funds and free of tolls. Regulated phone and electric...
Tags: Federal Communications Commission, Finance, Sociology, Government Postal Delivery, U.S. Postal Service
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Safety first for man who represented the U.S. in Japan during its nuclear disaster
Tribune staff reporterThe flight attendant spied the Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo on Chuck Casto's T-shirt and escorted him to first class. Three days after the Pacific Ocean had risen and shattered the northern Japanese coast March 11, 2011, Casto's plane headed...Tags: Lisle, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Skype, Synthetics and Plastics, Japan
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Congressional candidate profiles
MEET THE CANDIDATES When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...Tags: Olympia J. Snowe, Budgets and Budgeting, Environmental Pollution, Treaties, Christopher Van Hollen Jr.
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Ag Secretary announces renewable
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C., -Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on June 25 that USDA has selected for funding 450 projects nationwide, including 8 in South Dakota and 4 in North Dakota, that are focused on helping agricultural producers and rural small...Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy Saving, Business, Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Federal contractors donate to 'super PAC' backing Romney
A "super PAC" that has spent more than $35 million on behalf of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has accepted donations from federal contractors despite a 36-year-old ban against such companies making federal political expenditures.
At least...Tags: Los Angeles Times Journalists, Finance, Maloy Moore, Republican Party, Mitt Romney
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Exelon Corp. CEO says keeping the lights on has given his career a purpose
As commuters bustled away from downtown on a recent Friday evening, Chicago's skyscrapers turned to silhouette, framed by an orange autumn sunset.
But that wasn't the view that made John Rowe linger. From his office on the 54th floor of Chase Tower...Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, Chicago, Dominion Resources Incorporated, Illinois Institute of Technology
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The smack talk is good
Harry Pemberton didn't need to pay for two tickets to Super Bowl XLV. It's fair to say he talked his way into the big game.
Pemberton, a longtime Orange County resident who has lived in Newport Beach the past 11 years, won the tickets by becoming the...Tags: Pittsburgh Steelers, YouTube, Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, National Football League, Multi-Sport Events
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 4, 1941
The Daily MirrorApril 4, 1941: Lee Shippey has an item on Leland Stowe, the reporter who was the subject of a Tom Treanor column. Treanor, meanwhile, writes about Arthur Ernest Morgan, the former president of Antioch College and head of the Tennessee...... -
Obama on tornado devastation in the South: 'It's heartbreaking'
Top of the TicketPresident Obama tours areas of the South affected by a torrent of tornadoes that left a path of death and destruction... -
Tennessee Installs Solar Charging Stations
KickingTiresAs mainstream electric vehicles like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Nissan Leaf begin to hit American roads, the Tennessee Valley Authority is getting into the EV game with solar-assisted recharging stations that will hopefully prove convenient to...Tags: Nissan, Smart Car, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Tennessee, Hybrid Vehicles
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Dangerous waters
WHERE THERE'S WATER, there are mosquitoes. And where there are mosquitoes, there is disease — even diseases we thought we had eliminated long ago. In New Orleans, the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina were just the beginning. The waters are...Tags: Palm Beach International Airport, Hospitals and Clinics, Social Issues, Duke University, World War II (1939-1945)
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