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New EPA Chief Exhorts Agency Staff to 'Act Now on Climate Change'
2013-07-22 07:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency has a clear responsibility to act now on climate change, the agencys new chief said Monday in a video message to staff. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who was confirmed to replace Lisa Jackson last week, said the agency has reached a defining time in its history as it prepares to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. We also need your sustained service and your sustained commitment more than ever before because this is a defining time...
Ark. agency reviews plan for closed Whirlpool site
2013-07-20 02:51:39| Appliances - Topix.net
An environmental consulting firm submitted a final remedy work plan to the state environmental agency this week on behalf of Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool Corp. The plan, which calls for chemical oxidant injections and continued monitoring, comes decades after Whirlpool ceased using trichloroethylene, or TCE, at the Fort Smith site.
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Ark. agency reviews plan for closed Whirlpool site
2013-07-19 20:43:13| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is reviewing a plan to deal with a degreasing solvent that was detected in groundwater at a recently shuttered Whirlpool plant in Fort Smith.
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Boeing 787 Doesn't Face Grounding on Fire, EU Agency Says
2013-07-17 21:37:48| Airlines - Topix.net
Boeing Co. 's 787 Dreamliner faces no immediate threat of grounding as investigators continue a probe into last week's fire aboard a plane at London 's Heathrow airport, Europe's top aviation safety body said.
State agency to hold hearing on waste disposal
2013-07-16 07:06:36| Waste Management - Topix.net
The spreading of human waste as fertilizer on about 200 acres near Springtown by a Fort Worth company is raising so much of a stink that a state agency is planning to hold a public hearing to allow residents to air their complaints.
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