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"Virginia Beach to Control Sewage Overflows Under Costly Settlement"

"Hampton Roads Sanitation District, based in Virginia Beach, has agreed to pay a $900,000 civil fine and to take action to reduce alleged sanitary sewer overflows from its collection system and nine sewage treatment plants that have polluted the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries."

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Source: ENS, 09/30/2009

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"Federal Judge Throws Out Most of C8 Suit Against DuPont"

"A federal judge on Monday dismissed most of a lawsuit filed against chemical giant DuPont Co. by Parkersburg (W.Va.) residents over the pollution of their city's water with the toxic chemical C8."

Chemicals

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Source: Charleston Gazette, 09/29/2009

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"30-mile Fish Kill at Dunkard Creek"

"Three weeks ago, fish started dying in Dunkard Creek, a scenic stream that winds along the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border in Monongalia County."

Pollution

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Source: Charleston Gazette, 09/28/2009

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"Breaking Ground With a $1.6 Billion Plan To Tame Water"

"Philadelphia Has Announced a $1.6 Billion Plan To Transform the City Over the Next 20 Years by Embracing Its Storm Water - Instead of Hustling It Down Sewers and Into Rivers as Fast as Possible."

Water & Oceans

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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 09/28/2009

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"Political Headwinds Hit a Reactor Project on the Chesapeake"

Constellation Energy's proposed Calvert Cliffs 3 plant in Maryland, long a poster child of the industry's hoped-for "nuclear renaissance," faces some doubts at the Maryland State Public Service Commission.

Nuclear Power & Radiation

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Source: ClimateWire, 09/21/2009

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"Don't Hold That Thought"

"A file cabinet at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland holds some of the center’s six million bird-migration observation cards dating back to the late 1800s. The hand-written cards contain data about sightings of birds such as the ruby-throated hummingbird, often spotted in the 1930s when fruit trees bloomed in spring. Now being digitized, data from these cards will be stored on a U.S. Geological Survey database."

Biodiversity

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Source: Wildlife Professional, 09/18/2009

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"EPA Vows to Be Chesapeake Watchdog"

"The federal government said Thursday that it would seek an unprecedented role as the environmental police of the Chesapeake Bay -- enforcing new rules on farmers and keeping a closer eye on state-level bureaucrats -- in an effort to halt the estuary's long decline."

Water & Oceans

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Source: Washington Post, 09/11/2009

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"EPA Moves To Block West Virginia's Largest Mining Permit"

"Citing 'clear evidence' of likely environmental damage, the Obama administration has moved toward revoking the largest mountaintop-removal permit in West Virginia history."

Natural Resources

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Source: Charleston Gazette, 09/09/2009

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"U.S. Atlantic Coast Sea Level Anomaly Seen"

"U.S. scientists say persistent winds and a weakened current contributed to higher than normal June and July sea levels along the Eastern Seaboard."

Water & Oceans

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Source: UPI, 09/04/2009

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Enviros Demand That EPA Toughen Chesapeake Pollution Rules

"Environmental groups presented a federal official with more than 19,000 signed letters and postcards Tuesday asking the U.S. government to set stricter rules to prevent pollution in the Chesapeake Bay."

Activism

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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV)

Source: Wash Post, 09/02/2009