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The general term for environmental restoration, the process designed to ensure that risks to the environment and to human health and safety from waste sites either are eliminated or reduced to prescribed, safe levels.

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Mercury Emissions Up at Coal-Burning Power Plants

Published November 21, 2008, 5:03 pm, Environment News Service

, November 21, 2008 (ENS) - The top 50 most-polluting coal-burning power plants in the United States emitted 20 tons of toxic mercury into the air in 2007, finds a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project.

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Earthwatch Ramps up its Fall-Season Climate Change Efforts--from Backyards to Blackboards and Businesses

Published November 21, 2008, 10:22 am, Newswise

Earthwatch releases an update on 3 recent initiatives to fight climate change: its Beat the Heat Climate Change Campaign--highlighting first-ever local volunteering projects, Live from the Field teacher program--using technology to reach classrooms nationwide, and a new element to the HSBC Climate Partnership--designed to implement sustainable practices in businesses and local communities.

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PNP to set up environment hotline

Published November 21, 2008, 8:16 am, Yehey!

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Jesus Verzosa said one of the thrusts of his leadership is environment protection as he vowed to set up a hotline that would receive complaints against violators of the countrys environmental laws.

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Major hot tar spill clogs city sewers

Published November 21, 2008, 8:14 am, Moldova.org

Cleanup plans were being drafted Friday after 4,000 gallons of hot tar leaked into city sewers in Brampton, Ontario, northwest of Toronto.Police were called to a shopping plaza Thursday morning about a roofing company's tanker truck leaking in the parking lot, the Toronto Star reported.The plaza was evacuated and provincial environmental officials were summoned. There were concerns the tar in ...

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Rewards offered for info on illegal L.A. dumping

Published November 21, 2008, 8:01 am, Daily Breeze

Angelenos who provide information on illegal dumpers could receive a $1,000 reward, city officials announced today as they kicked off the "Don't Dump on L.A." campaign. ยป BLOG: Keep up to date with South Bay crime and court news

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Major hot tar spill clogs city sewers

Published November 21, 2008, 7:51 am, UPI

BRAMPTON, Ontario, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Cleanup plans were being drafted Friday after 4,000 gallons of hot tar leaked into city sewers in Brampton, Ontario, northwest of Toronto.

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Space station instrument sniffs out dangerous chemicals

Published November 21, 2008, 6:04 am, The Bay Area Citizen

NASA astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air.

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Nigeria: AEPB Vows to Recover N1.5 Billion Debt

Published November 21, 2008, 3:10 am, AllAfrica.com

allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience

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Obama's aid with Bay sought

Published November 21, 2008, 2:46 am, The Washington Times

The leaders of Maryland, Virginia and the District said Thursday that they will ask Barack Obama when he officially becomes president for federal assistance in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, after years of failing to meet goals and deadlines.

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Huge tar spill clogs Brampton sewers

Published November 21, 2008, 1:37 am, Toronto Star

Up to 15,000 litres of molten tar poured into a Brampton storm sewer yesterday morning after a roofing job at a shopping plaza went wrong.

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  • Lockheed agrees to temporarily relocate Tallevast families - Bradenton.com: Lockheed Martin Corp. will temporarily relocate any family or individual in Tallevast who wants to leave town while two buildings that sit on a contamination spill are dismantled, company spokesman Tom Greer announced Wednesday. So far, 35 households have asked to be relocated and Lockheed is paying to move them into local hotels that offer extended stay accommodations , Greer said. Greer estimated that the dismantling of the two buildings should be complete by Christmas, and then the families are expected to return to their Tallevast homes. The contamination has been traced back to a spill at the former Loral American Beryllium plant at 1600 Tallevast Road Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.bradenton .com%2F847%2Fs tory%2F1044770 .html
  • knoxnews.com |After 15,700 truckloads, Witherspoon cleanup nears end: Four years after cleanup work began at the notorious David Witherspoon scrap operations in the Vestal community of South Knoxville, the job is almost done. That's the word from Bechtel Jacobs Co., the Dept. of Energy's environmental contractor. So far, about 235,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and debris have been removed from two Witherspoon sites off Maryville Pike and hauled to Oak Ridge for disposal at DOE's nuclear landfill. Bechtel Jacobs spokesman Dennis Hill said that's enough to cover a football field (including the end zones) to a depth of 100 feet. Bechtel Jacobs said work should be completed in early 2009, possibly as early as January. Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fblogs.knoxnew s.com%2Fknx%2F munger%2F2008% 2F11%2Fafter_1 5700_truckload s_withers.html
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  • Oak Ridge cleanup project gets DOE's OK: The Department of Energy has given its preliminary approval to a massive Oak Ridge cleanup campaign that could cost as much as $14.5 billion over 20 years. DOE announced today that Jim Rispoli, the federal agency's assistant secretary for environmental management, had signed papers for Critical Decision-1 - a major step in moving the project forward and setting the stage for seeking congressional appropriations for the work.
  • Agency wants lab site tested: Ventura County Star: Radiation levels at Santa Susana questioned While certain that a streak of white substance found in the hillsides of a Runkle Canyon site is not a contaminant, the Department of Toxic Substances Control says it needs more testing to explain the variation in radiation levels found at the Simi Valley site since 1998. Runkle Canyon, near a former rocket engine test site known as the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, has been the subject of controversy over possible ground contamination.

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