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Denver Water workers expose 'toxic cemetery' at foothills treatment plant
Investigative ReporterDENVER - Retired Denver Water workers say they are coming clean about the hazardous waste they buried near dozens of homes and schools 20 years ago. "It is a toxic burial ground. People are going to die," says Joe Pacheco. Pacheco is one of a dozen...Tags: Health, Education, Employees, Health and Safety at School, Hazardous Materials
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City panel OKs partial ban on plastic bags
After years of debating whether to ban disposable plastic store bags or slap a fee on them, the Baltimore City Council appears poised now to try fighting the city's litter problem with half a ban.
Under a bill endorsed by a council committee Tuesday,...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, San Francisco, Elections, Regional Authority, California
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Baltimore council committee approves plastic bag ordinance
Baltimore Sun reporterFood stores and restaurants in Baltimore would be barred from giving away disposable plastic bags under a bill to be considered by City Council, unless the merchants join a program to encourage their customers to recycle or shop with reusable bags....Tags: Maryland, San Francisco, Annapolis, Crime, Law and Justice, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Website lets you check local hazardous waste sites
Is there a hazardous waste site in your neighborhood? You can find out on a website set up by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that lets you download detailed information on thousands of contaminated properties. The Contamination...Tags: Energy Resources, Hazardous Materials, Waste, Environmental Pollution, Waste Management and Pollution Control
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Studies show danger of even small amounts of lead in children’s blood
High doses of lead have for some time been linked to chronic kidney damage. But a recent study out of Johns Hopkins Children's Center found that even small levels of lead exposure may be damaging to children's kidneys.
The report, published January in...Tags: Crimes, Health, Education, State University of New York, Health and Safety at School
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Former U.S. District Judge James C. Paine, 85
Flags outside federal courthouses flew at half-staff Monday after the death Sunday of one of South Florida's longest-serving federal jurists, Senior U.S. District Judge James C. Paine. Judge Paine, 85, of Palm Beach, died after spending his final few...Tags: Crimes, Prisons, Health, Judges, Jimmy Carter
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James C. Paine, retired Palm Beach County federal judge, dies at 85
The flag outside the federal courthouse flies at half-mast this morning following the death Sunday of one of Palm Beach County's longest-serving, hardest-working federal jurists: Senior U.S. District Judge James C. Paine. Paine, 85, died after spending...Tags: Crimes, Prisons, Health, Corruption, Judges
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Business Briefing
New claims for jobless benefits fall
The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits slipped last week but remains above the level many economists said would signal new hiring.
The four-week average of claims hit its highest...Tags: Ecuador, Crimes, HSBC Holdings plc, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Climate activists say businesses are buying their way out of costly greenhouse gas cuts
Associated Press WriterBRUSSELS (AP) — Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing nations, a nonprofit group said Friday. To avoid the...Tags: Brazil, Personal Service, India, Companies and Corporations, Global Warming
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Despite progress, many residents still without water
Baltimore Public Works officials said 40,000 people in Northwest Baltimore County who have been without water since a main break early Saturday will remain without water overnight and are likely to have minimal water or none through part of the day...Tags: Reisterstown, Pikesville
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Far South Side environmental activist Hazel Johnson and her daughter ‘decided to stay here and fight’
In the early 1980s, the cancer deaths of four little girls — whose bodies were so tiny they could fit in shoe boxes — forced Hazel Johnson to shift the focus of an organization she'd recently founded.
Johnson had hoped People for Community...Tags: George Pullman, Cancer, Interior Policy, Politics, Death and Dying
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Kettleman City cleft deformities raise questions of a cluster case
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered state health and environmental agencies to continue to investigate a rash of birth defects that occurred in the small San Joaquin Valley town of Kettleman City.
Five of 20 babies born in Kettleman City over a 14-...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), American Legion, Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Cancer
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