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Forty-one years ago, then-Gov. William T. Cahill pledged that a new agency -- the Department of Environmental Protection -- would aggressively identify and clean up toxic sites.
The industrial pollution and illegal dumping that had turned New Jersey into one of the most notoriously contaminated states in the nation was no longer going to be tolerated.
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JAY ? Townspeople voted in all warrant school and municipal articles on Tuesday pertaining to a $15.3 million budget. They also voted to suspend a town ordinance that regulates industrial pollution by a 821-637 vote.
Industrial businesses are still required to adhere to state and federal regulations.
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f83c26/industrial_air_pol) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's...
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Kevin Brown's most feared opponent on the sandlot or basketball court while he was growing up wasn't another kid. It was the polluted air he breathed.
I would look outside and I would see him just leaning on a tree or leaning over a pole, gasping, gasping, trying to get some breath so he could go back to playing," recalls his mother, Lana Brown.
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BEIJING, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT),an engineering solution provider; specializing in providing turn-key solutions involving water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control, announced today that its subsidiary, Tri-Tech (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Tri-Tech Beijing), won contracts totaling $42 million from Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (BUIDC) for engineering, procurement and construction of three sewerage collection system and sewerage treatment plants for Hajipur Town ($19.36 million), Begusarai Town ($12.02 million) and Buxar Town ($10.62 million)in the State of Bihar, Republic of India.
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Two of Allegheny County's bigger sources of industrial pollution, U.S. Steel Corp.'s Clairton Coke Works and the company's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, will get federal air quality permits in September, county health officials said on Wednesday.
Granting the permits is a breakthrough for the steel producer, which made a series of costly improvements at both plants, and it represents progress for the understaffed Health Department's backlog in bringing industry into compliance with federal air standards, officials said.
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