The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that no further action is needed to address two closed landfills at the Cinnaminson Ground Water Contamination Superfund site in the townships of Cinnaminson and Delran, New Jersey. ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the fire burning underground at the Integrated Waste Management Tire site in Penuelas, Puerto Rico is now fully extinguished and the potential health risks from the smoke have ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a cleanup plan to address contaminated ground water and soil at the Mattiace Petrochemical Co., Inc. Superfund site in Glen Cove, New York. The ground water and soil are contaminated ...
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In an historic action that will protect people's health and the environment, and benefit riverfront communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a plan to remove 4.3 million cubic yards of highly contaminated ...
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London businesses and politicians have called on the government to scrap a planned hike in alcohol taxes to give the capital’s hospitality sector a boost. Pubs, producers, MPs and retailers joined the TaxPayers' Alliance and the ...
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Health Affairs: Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents And Generate Savings For Medicare Hospitalizations of nursing home residents are frequent and result in complications, morbidity, and Medicare ...
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Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has strongly opposed the proposed increase in sales tax and changes in tax regime as this will negatively impact the textile exports and would cause to further squeeze the industrial activities. ...
Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
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The Washington Post: Making Progress On Inequality Intense as it is, the current debate over rising income inequality is hardly new. ... The good news is that there's more good news than one might expect. ... In addition to avoiding ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Judge Rejects Legal Challenge Against Health Insurance Subsidies A legal challenge against health care insurance subsidies for ...
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Hybrid Technology, led by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, has bid $55 million for Fisker Automotive's assets, just days after a bankruptcy judge in Delaware rejected Hybrid's plan to take over the failed electric-vehicle maker in a ...
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HealthCare.gov famously failed at launch, not delivering what was promised. Depending on whom you ask - and whom you believe - the cost to taxpayers ranges from $654 million to well over $1 billion. If, as Professor Van Helsing said in Bram ...
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The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. In December 2013, USGBC's Green Building ...
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With 23,000 tons of foam used once and then thrown away in New York annually, the city's goal is keep 75% of waste out of landfills by 2030 – even though Styrofoam is technically recyclable. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg ...
Starting this month, Canada Revenue Agency is sending out 33,000 letters to help Canadian taxpayers (as they put it) "better understand their tax obligations and to encourage them to correct any inaccuracies in their past income tax and ...
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