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WILTON -- Selectmen decided Tuesday to obtain an estimate for removing asbestos from the former Primary School before getting bids for demolition.
Until we know about the asbestos, everyone is gun shy," Selectman Scott Taylor said, referring to the lack of those interested in either purchase or demolition.
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The Allegheny County Board of Health on Wednesday unanimously approved a plan to bring the level of pollution in Mon Valley communities near U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works into compliance with federal air quality standards within five years.
The plan outlines what the plant must do by 2015 to reduce the level of fine particulate emissions by replacing existing equipment with lower-polluting models. Board members Al Ahmed, the Rev. Rickey Burgess, and Dr. Lee Harrison were absent from the meeting.
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The El Chaparral subdivision just east of Columbia has been getting increased attention from the Boone County Sheriff's Department for the past few months, and now the Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is starting to take notice of the neighborhood.
The Boone County Commission yesterday approved an order for the health department's environmental health division to have junk removed from the yard at 1321-1323 Roseta Ave. The cost of the nuisance abatement -- the 23rd abatement order issued by the county commission this year -- would be added as a special assessment to the owner's property tax bill.
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... a residential property to be acquired, the cost of evaluation and abatement shall be considered wh...
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Managers at Carson Mineral Hot Springs Resort knowingly exposed workers and possibly guests to asbestos, a known carcinogen, in order to save about $10,000 on an asbestos-removal job.
The company used an unlicensed contractor to remove asbestos- laden insulation from a laundry room at the rustic spa in 2007 rather than hire a certified asbestos abatement contractor at a cost of $30,000, according to investigations conducted by the Washington departments of Health and Labor and Industries and the Southwest Clean Air Agency.
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...(34) . Air pollution abatement policies aimed at protecting human health and the ...At a cost of about $350 per unit, motorized tricycles or ric...
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Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House has entered its final major phase.
An upgrade of mechanical systems, including electrical, plumbing, and heating and air conditioning, preceded by asbestos abatement, is expected to cost $5 million and take nearly 15 months.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Metron Technology, Inc. today introduced its Marathon(TM) 8600, the only combustion-wet abatement technology capable of supporting...
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In a proposal titled, Tropical Rainforests: An Abatement Solution to Climate Change', [Bharrat Jagdeo] says the cost of preserving Guyana's more than 16 million hectares of rainforest, a total of $580 million per annum, is the cheapest abatement solution.
He called on students, professors and the general public to put pressure on the Canadian government to attend the convention, stressing that 'what is needed now is the shift from just Minister's of Environment's support to that of the political level.' The science is clear. The economics is clear. The only reason to have a stalemate (in Copenhagen) will be the absence of political will," said president Jagdeo.
Earlier this year president Jagdeo was among a group representing rainforest countries and developed countries which came toget...