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Hundreds oppose China refinery project in mostly peaceful protests
BEIJING -- Surrounded and pushed back by police, hundreds of people shouted and marched again in the southern China city of Kunming to protest the construction of a petrochemical plant. It was the second time this month that demonstrators gathered in...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, PetroChina Company Limited, China, Lifestyle and Leisure, Plant Openings
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: Barack Obama, Environmental Pollution, Weather, George H.W. Bush, Global Warming
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Chambersburg, area business get state funding for natural-gas vehicles
The Borough of Chambersburg and an area business have been awarded state funding to purchase natural gas vehicles or convert existing vehicles to natural gas. The Borough of Chambersburg, along with project partners IESI Corp. and the Borough of...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Alternative Energy
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Somerset County Where to Go for May 16
Strawberry Festival A Strawberry Festival will start at 4 p.m. May 18 at the Shade Creek Ridge Church of the Brethren,1623 Ridge Road, Hooversville. Free will donations will be accepted. The proceeds will benefit the orphans in Honduras program. Fireman&...Tags: Theater, Reading Phillies, University of Pittsburgh, Noise (movie), Broadway Theater
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Obama administration to tighten pressure on Iran, aide says
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would add more sanctions on Iran in an effort to dissuade Tehran from continuing its nuclear program, but stopped short of backing tough new penalties that lawmakers are considering....
Tags: Tehran (Iran), Nuclear Policy, John Kerry, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bob Menendez
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Buchanan company expects to add 50 jobs by 2016
South Bend TribuneBUCHANAN -- Vickers Engineering is undergoing a very nice growth spurt. Except it's not really a spurt. It's actually steady growth. And the growth will continue, according to Matt Tyler, CEO and president of Vickers Engineering. He said he expects to...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Technology, Science and Technology
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Portland power plant owners settle pollution lawsuit
The owner of a power plant in Upper Mount Bethel Township has agreed to stop burning coal as part of a settlement in a lawsuit by two downwind states over air pollution. NRG Energy, which acquired the Portland Generating Station last year in a merger...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Portland (Middlesex, Connecticut), Trials, Allentown, Environmental Issues
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Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources: 2,500 cattle are buried in trench near Halfway
news@ky3.comHALFWAY, Mo. -- The owner of a closed cattle rendering plant signed an agreement in court on Monday to make a plan to clean up environmental hazards on the property. In the agreement, the Missouri Attorney General's Office says "an estimated 2,500 animal...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Natural Resource Industry, Auction Service, Litigation, Companies and Corporations
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Lake Charlevoix Association fish shelters: If you build it, they will come
An angler Dan Mishler knows built a fish shelter in the waters of Lake Charlevoix in front of his house. Over the winter, said Mishler, who is the president of the Lake Charlevoix Association, the man was ice fishing over that shelter. In the early...
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Biology, Lakes and Ponds, Engineering
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Compromise reached in fracking legislation
Tribune reporterA bill to regulate horizontal hydraulic fracturing in Illinois is ready to move forward, according sources in Springfield who have been negotiating the bill behind closed doors. Following months of negotiations, the legislation stalled in March after...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Springfield, Credit and Debt, Labor Legislation, John E. Bradley
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Bob Graham: Legislators gave away too much on environment
The Florida Conservation Coalition was founded after the devastating legislative session of 2011 which rolled back 40 years of bi-partisan environmental stewardship. Since the 1970's Florida's governors and legislators, Democrats and Republicans, have...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Environmental Politics, Politics, Natural Resources, Bob Graham
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Russia, Japan renew quest for elusive WWII peace treaty
World War II lingers for Russia and Japan. Nearly 68 years after the fighting ended, the two Asian powers have yet to sign a peace treaty. That could change now that the leaders of both countries have solid nationalist credentials and could pull off...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia), Treaties, Richard Nixon, Dmitry Medvedev
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