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Sit in a good chair, unfold a map, and suddenly you are transported
For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated with maps. All types of maps: highway, railroad, maritime (called more correctly charts) or topographical. I attribute this to my love of the open road, the rumble of flanged railroad wheels beneath...Tags: Railway Transportation, New York Times, World War II, Rockefeller Center, Road Transportation
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Slick ideas don't just bubble up out of crude
Sentinel ColumnistIn a drafty Groveland warehouse where welders working on steel tanks spew sparks across a concrete floor, an emerging industry is taking hold. Lake County is poised to become a center for biodiesel production -- if a south Lake man and his partner can...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Vehicles, Dining and Drinking, Orlando, Clermont
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Saving Green By Going Green
The Hartford CourantFor homeowners thinking about how to cut their energy bills, and maybe lower their carbon footprint, the price of going green just dropped, thanks to new and renewed federal tax incentives for energy-saving home improvements. These join a slew of state...Tags: Connecticut Light & Power Company, Sales, Conservation, Online Resources Corporation, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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Coal industry, utilities ponder future under Obama
AP Business WriterBill Raney considers coal golden. After all, the black rock fuels half of the nation's electrical generation. But the West Virginia Coal Association's president and others in the industry say they've received mixed messages about president-elect...Tags: Richard Durbin, Mining, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Government, Newspaper and Magazine
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Feds step up to (or into) farm manure?
baltimoresun.comThe Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it had finalized a rule requiring farmers with large livestock herds to manage the animals' manure so it doesn't run off into nearby streams and rivers. The impact of "factory farming" on... -
Bay cleanup - even more daunting than we thought?
baltimoresun.comAfter being unable to agree on setting a new target date for the long-running Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, state and federal officials have decided to take six months to come up with a set of short-term goals. At the same time, they said they hope... -
Piling on the Automakers: Waxman Waxes Dingell, Claims Energy and Commerce Chair
MotorTrend MagazineDETROIT - As a bailout/loan guarantee plan for the Detroit Three fizzles comes word from Capitol Hill that Representative Henry Waxman (D-California) has unseated John Dingell (D-Michigan) as chairman of the Energy & Commerce committee.I've written... -
Power change on Hill
Tribune Washington BureauWinning a clash of political titans, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the liberal Los Angeles powerbroker, captured a House post yesterday that will put him at the center of efforts to advance President-elect Barack Obama's expected plans to curb global warming,...Tags: John D Dingell, Global Expansion, Health Insurance, Government Health Care, Pediatrics
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Officials vow new bay effort
State and federal officials pledged yesterday to redouble their efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay but declined to set a new target date for when they plan to do it. Instead, the officials - including the governors of Maryland and Virginia - agreed...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Dietary Supplements, Water, Government, Martin O'Malley
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BUILDING THE OBAMA CABINET
IT'S Washington's favorite parlor game during a presidential transition: trying to figure out who'll land a top spot in the new administration. President-elect Barack Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some...Tags: Tom Daschle, Janet Napolitano, Parliament, National Security, James Jones
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Henry Waxman topples John Dingell as panel leader; Dems eye stronger environmental stance
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Democrats steered the House toward more aggressively tackling global warming and other environmental problems Thursday, toppling veteran Michigan Rep. John Dingell, a staunch supporter of Detroit automakers, from an important energy...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Health Insurance, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Government Health Care, Pediatrics
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Federal court upholds Michigan ballast water law
AP Environmental WriterA federal appeals court Friday upheld a Michigan law designed to prevent oceangoing freight ships from bringing invasive species to the Great Lakes in their ballast water. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected a challenge to the...Tags: Standards, Nature, Water, National Government, Court Administration
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