http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Fri, 24 May 2013 21:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/15/study-feds-overestimate-poultry-pollution/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/15/study-feds-overestimate-poultry-pollution/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 14:38:05 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=239821 NEWARK, Del. — A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to water pollution. The News Journal of Wilmington reports that researchers found that nitrogen levels in poultry house manure are 55 percent lower than the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards. Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and [...]

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]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/30/eastern-shore-conservation-group-gets-funds-pledge/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/30/bay-restoration-goals-one-quarter-to-one-third-met/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/30/bay-restoration-goals-one-quarter-to-one-third-met/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:41:46 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238753 The Chesapeake Bay Program says states in the bay watershed are about one quarter to one third of the way toward meeting goals for cutting the bay’s three main pollutants by 2025. The new federally led restoration strategy calls for cuts in nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment. The bay program says its models show that between [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/30/bay-restoration-goals-one-quarter-to-one-third-met/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/29/mde-to-announce-wicomico-groundwater-contamination-response/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/29/mde-to-announce-wicomico-groundwater-contamination-response/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:17:05 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238664 SALISBURY — Maryland environmental officials plan to brief residents on how they will respond to groundwater contamination in Wicomico County. A community meeting is scheduled Tuesday in the Parkside High School auditorium in Salisbury. Maryland Department of the Environment spokesman Jay Apperson says state officials have identified the activity they believe led to the contamination. [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/29/mde-to-announce-wicomico-groundwater-contamination-response/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/29/epa-methane-report-further-divides-fracking-camps/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/29/epa-methane-report-further-divides-fracking-camps/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:57:12 +0000 Danny Jacobs http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238594 PITTSBURGH — The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change? Oil and gas drilling [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/29/epa-methane-report-further-divides-fracking-camps/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/23/d-c-circuit-upholds-epas-retroactive-veto-of-mining-permit/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/23/d-c-circuit-upholds-epas-retroactive-veto-of-mining-permit/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:49:02 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238295 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court’s [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/23/d-c-circuit-upholds-epas-retroactive-veto-of-mining-permit/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/19/epa-blamed-for-delays-in-asbestos-study-in-montana/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/19/epa-blamed-for-delays-in-asbestos-study-in-montana/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:28:30 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238088 BILLINGS, Mont. — Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure. The EPA’s Office of Inspector General said in a report that the studies are necessary to [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/19/epa-blamed-for-delays-in-asbestos-study-in-montana/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/18/epa-takes-blame-for-delays-in-montana-asbestos-study/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/18/epa-takes-blame-for-delays-in-montana-asbestos-study/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:38:16 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238015 BILLINGS, Mont. — Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure. The EPA’s Office of Inspector General said in a report that the studies are necessary to [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/18/epa-takes-blame-for-delays-in-montana-asbestos-study/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/29/epa-taking-aim-at-auto-emissions-sulfur-in-gas/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/29/epa-taking-aim-at-auto-emissions-sulfur-in-gas/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:25:40 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=236615 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration proposed new regulations Friday to clean up gasoline and automobile emissions, claiming the new standards would provide $7 in health benefits from cleaner air for each dollar spent to implement them. The costs likely would be passed on to consumers in higher gasoline and automobile prices. The Environmental Protection Agency [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/29/epa-taking-aim-at-auto-emissions-sulfur-in-gas/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/28/report-bay-stormwater-pollution-costs-can-be-cut/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/28/report-bay-stormwater-pollution-costs-can-be-cut/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:08:49 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=236531 RICHMOND, Va. — A new report says there are cost-effective ways for local governments to reduce stormwater pollution going into the Chesapeake Bay. The report says local governments could possibly reduce their costs by 50 percent to 85 percent by choosing the most-effective measures. These measures include restoring urban streams instead of building detention ponds [...]

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