September 20th, 2012
By Dan Miller Top news of the day from CONS (Combined Obama News Services): United States flags must be safe for all.
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Tags: burning, EPA, flag, fumes, Muslim, Obama, satire, terrorism
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January 22nd, 2012
By Dan Miller Why an oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands will shut down by mid-February. An oil refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, will shut down by mid-February. It is owned by Hovensa, a joint venture of U.S.-based Hess Corp. and Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). Losses at […]
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Tags: environment, EPA, gas, oil refinery, prices, U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuela
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January 10th, 2012
By Dan Miller Oral arguments were heard at the Supreme Court today in Sackett, et al., v. EPA, challenging actions by the Environmental Protection Agency to keep Michael and Chantell Sackett from building their home on land belatedly declared damp by the agency. Construction screeched to a halt upon the order of three agents of […]
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Tags: Clean Water Act, EPA, home, property, Sackett, Supreme Court, wetland
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July 19th, 2011
By Jan Barry Vietnam and New Jersey, despite the vast distance between them, share a deadly link. Both places, lushly beautiful this time of year, were poisoned by United States government actions regarding one of the most toxic chemicals, dioxin. In Vietnam, dioxin was widely spread as a contaminant in forest-killing Agent Orange herbicides that […]
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Tags: Agent Orange, dioxin, EPA, Ford, HBO, Mann, New Jersey, pollution, toxic
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July 15th, 2011
By Jan Barry Residents of a once-isolated mountain community in Ringwood, NJ have a bone-chilling tale to tell the rest of America. And HBO is offering its cable television services to help convey this story via a new documentary called Mann v. Ford. Highlighting the community’s fight against a plague of illness and deaths they […]
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Tags: cancer, children, deaths, EPA, Ford, lawsuit, New Jersey, superfund, toxic
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