Fire Highligts Refinery Impacts
A May 17 fire at Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery near Philadelphia underscored its day-in-day-out impact on the environment.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 05/26/2009
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"Sun for Rent"
"It's an old energy problem with a new solution: After decades of facing prohibitively high costs to install solar panels, Massachusetts residents will be able to lease the panels for a tiny fraction of their upfront cost."
Source: Boston Globe, 05/25/2009
Cape Cod Wind Farm Wins Key State Permit
The Cape Wind project to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound won approval of a key permit from Massachusetts.
Source: Reuters, 05/22/2009
"Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson"
After a 25-year delay, dredging has finally begun to remove PCB-laced sediments from the stretch of the Hudson River polluted by a GE plant.
Source: NYTimes, 05/18/2009
NJ To Appeal Kiddie Kollege
"The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced yesterday that it would appeal a court ruling that the owner of the Kiddie Kollege building in Franklin Township, Gloucester County, is not responsible for its $1 million cleanup."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 05/08/2009
Newsdate Aug. 27: New England, Canada May Leapfrog Kyoto
On Aug. 27, 2001, a conference of six New England states and five Eastern Canadian provinces will consider a groundbreaking strategy for reducing greenhouse gasses in the region.
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Terror and the Electric Grid
The Sept. 11 attacks should remind reporters of the vulnerability of the electric power supply system not just to terrorism, but to other natural and man-made disasters that could bring serious outages.
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