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EPA OKs filling in streams
Published December 2, 2008, 10:03 pm, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration Tuesday that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks left from mining. The 1983 rule prohibited dumping the fill from mountaintop removal mining within 100 feet of streams. In practice, the government hadn’t been enforcing the rule. Government figures show that 535 ...
Norman schools work on 2009 bond issue bid
Published December 2, 2008, 10:00 pm, The Oklahoman
NORMAN — With most of the 2007 bond projects completed, under way or in the planning stages, Norman school officials will turn their attention to the next bond issue.School staff members and bond committees will meet over the next several months to draw up a list of projects for a 2009 bond issue, Assistant Superintendent Roger Brown said at a special board meeting Monday.The projects will be ...
Is the dollar dead?
Published December 2, 2008, 10:00 pm, News 24 South Africa
A local strategist believes the US dollar will lose its privileged position and other currencies, like the Singapore dollar, will steal the spotlight.
Race Issues Strain Parties Coalition
Published December 2, 2008, 9:47 pm, Sin Chew Jit Poh
KUALA LUMPUR: The ethnic gamesmanship that has dominated Malaysia's political airwaves in recent weeks is exposing the deep strains in the Barisan Nasional (BN) government and highlights the dilemma the multi-racial coalition faces on how to deal with an increasingly sophisticated electorate.
Nuclear cleanup to cost billions
Published December 2, 2008, 9:20 pm, Albany Times Union
State-funded study puts almost $10 billion price on effort at West Valley While it will cost taxpayers billions to clean out dangerous radioactive waste from a defunct nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, storing it there would cost billions more over the centuries ? and risk contamination of Lake Erie.That was the conclusion of a state-funded report on the 3,300-acre West Valley nuclear site, ...
Project To Restore Shoreline
Published December 2, 2008, 9:16 pm, South Tampa News & Tribune
Gathered by the Hillsborough River in a nook next to Blake High School, students recently helped Mayor Pam Iorio cut the ribbon on a $100,000 shoreline restoration project.
Hotels, air carriers feeling pinch of fewer people hitting the road
Published December 2, 2008, 9:14 pm, The Post and Courier
The tourists chatting in multiple languages in the piazzas, bars and shops of Rome belie a more somber mood at the ancient city's hotels.
Airlines and hotels feel the pinch of travel cuts
Published December 2, 2008, 9:14 pm, The Charlotte Observer
(By Kristen A. Lee, Associated Press) The tourists chatting in multiple languages in the piazzas, bars and shops of Rome belie a more somber mood at the ancient city's hotels. Luigi Rinaldi, concierge of the Hotel de la Minerve next to the Pantheon, said American tourists have disappeared, although demand among German, Spanish and Russian tourists is solid. The hotel is trying to lure guests by ...
Richland buffers could affect thousands
Published December 2, 2008, 9:08 pm, The State
New development regulations requiring natural, undisturbed borders along Richland County’s lakes, rivers, creeks and ditches stand to affect thousands of property owners. But how wide the buffers will be — anywhere from 25 to 100 feet — and what exemptions might be allowed are still under discussion. Tuesday, members of Richland County Council met in a 2½-hour work session, trying to work out ...
Police on alert for house looters
Published December 2, 2008, 9:06 pm, The Eagle-Tribune
PLUM ISLAND — Newbury police are combating a new problem at the Northern Boulevard site of a house that was demolished after it was dangerously undermined by the sea Tuesday: looting. Meanwhile, the company hired to stabilize the beach from Plum Island Center northward has accelerated the pace of its work installing giant sandbags against the overhanging dune.
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