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"E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard" [1]

"Ruchit Garg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, says that he worries that something isn’t right with his Internet shopping habit. With each new delivery to his doorstep — sometimes several in a day — he faces the source of his guilt and frustration: another cardboard box."

Consumer [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NY Times [7], 02/16/2016
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"Group Questions Peabody Energy's Coal Mine Self-Bonding" [8]

"An environmental group is formally questioning Peabody Energy's ability to fully bond its coal mines in Wyoming and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain region, saying the St. Louis-based company has insufficient funding to qualify for self-bonding."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: AP [12], 02/12/2016
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"Rail Cars Laden With Coal Ash Rolling Into Virginia Landfill" [13]

"Two years after one of the nation's worst coal ash spills, 1 ½ million tons of the potentially toxic waste byproduct from coal-fired power generation is being moved by rail from the banks of the Dan River in North Carolina to a landfill in central Virginia."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Pollution [11]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: AP [16], 02/01/2016
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"When the Water Turned Brown" [17]

"FLINT, Mich. — Standing at a microphone in September holding up a baby bottle, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a local pediatrician, said she was deeply worried about the water. The number of Flint children with elevated levels of lead in their blood had risen alarmingly since the city changed its water supply the previous year, her analysis showed."

Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Pollution [11]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: NY Times [21], 01/25/2016
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"Did EPA Fail to Protect a Black Community from Environmental Racism?" [22]

"Tallassee, Ala., wants the agency to defend them from a landfill company, but residents say proposed rule changes would not be effective enough".

Activism [23]
Laws & Regulations [10]
People & Population [24]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: Ebony [25], 01/21/2016
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EPA Orders Barrier To Protect Nuclear Waste From Underground Mo. Fire [26]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [27]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [28]
Source: AP [29], 01/04/2016
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"Bioreactors Taking a Bite Out of Pollution on Eastern Shore Farms" [30]

"Pits use wood chips to remove nutrients from ag runoff before it reaches streams".

Agriculture [31]
Pollution [11]
Technology [32]
Waste [4]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Bay Journal [34], 12/29/2015
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"SandRidge Defies Okla. Directive To Close 6 Wells" [35]

"SandRidge Energy Inc., the financially troubled oil producer focused on earthquake-prone northern Oklahoma, is defying a state directive to shut down six disposal wells linked to quakes."

Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Waste [4]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
Source: EnergyWire [38], 12/22/2015
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"U.S. Concerned Taxpayers May Face Coal Cleanup Hit: Official" [39]

"The Obama administration is concerned that a subsidy of coal mine cleanup could leave taxpayers with multibillion-dollar liabilities, a U.S. Interior Department official said on Tuesday."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Pollution [11]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [40], 12/10/2015
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"Manure From Millions of Hogs Fuels Natural Gas Project" [41]

"One recipe for renewable natural gas goes: Place manure from about 2 million hogs in lagoons, cover them with an impermeable material and let it bake until gas from the manure rises. Then, use special equipment to clean the gas of its impurities and ship the finished product out."

Agriculture [31]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Waste [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: AP [42], 11/16/2015
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