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Study: Car emissions can turn good cholesterol bad
Autoblog.comFiled under: Etc., Safety, Diesel Before you head to the pharmacy to refill your Lipitor prescription, check this out. The American Heart Association's journal on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology has concluded that high levels of... -
Circular Logic: Connecticut Drivers Should Stop Worrying and Embrace Roundabouts
Roundabouts. It's such a cute, innocent name. Yet lots of Connecticut drivers dread them as vicious, confusing, frightening traffic whirlpools that could suck them into mayhem and misdirection. And that's too bad. Replacing regular traffic-light or...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, North Stonington, Highway Transportation, West Haven, New London (New London, Connecticut)
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Water bill whirlpool
There is an old adage, often heard in the local marinas, that a boat is nothing more than a hole in the water into which you pour money. Turns out the same could be said about Baltimore's water and sewer system — it is a money-soaking hole that puts...
Tags: Sinkholes, Economy, Business and Finance, Edgar Allan Poe, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...Tags: Solar Energy, Energy Resources, Ecosystems, Conservation, Landforms
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Agencies aim to restore bay's depleted oysters, a creek at a time
It's planting time in the Chesapeake Bay, just as it is on land for farmers and gardeners across Maryland. Instead of seeds, though, hundreds of millions of speck-sized baby oysters — known as spat — are being planted this spring in Harris...
Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Dorchester County, Renovation, Oysters
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Critic questions AQMD board member's doctorates
A critic of the region's air-quality agency is questioning the academic credentials of a board member empowered to vote on the fate of the fire rings in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. Clark E. Parker, who sits on the South Coast Air Quality...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Religion and Belief, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Science
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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: Government, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Politics, Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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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: Allan R. Mansoor, Environmental Issues, Air Pollution, Local Government
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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: Chevron Corportion, Environmental Issues, Kamala D. Harris, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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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: Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology
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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: Evanston, Rivers, Environmental Issues, Bodies of Water, Water Pollution
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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, Rivers, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Bodies of Water
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