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Bomb Found Near Centralia Power Plant
The Associated PressThe State Patrol is helping the Lewis County sheriff's office investigate a bomb found near the TransAlta power plant at Centralia. The sheriff's office says it's a 5-gallon propane tank with a small amount of black powder and a blasting cap....Tags: Coal, Metal and Mineral
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Health care drops off the radar screen
The Swampby Jill Zuckman What happened to health care? In the daily rat-a-tat-tat between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, the silence is deafening. It was once the "it" topic of public policy that helped propel the Clintons into office, sparked......Tags: Health Treatments, Petroleum Industry, Medical Services, Government, Metal and Mineral
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Health care no longer primary ailment
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — What happened to health care? In the daily rat-a-tat-tat between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, the silence is deafening. It was once the "it" topic of public policy that helped propel the Clintons into office, sparked open...Tags: Health Treatments, Petroleum Industry, Medical Services, Government, Metal and Mineral
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Massey issues corporate responsibility report
Coal mine operator Massey Energy has put out its first social responsibility report. The 32-page document details Massey's financial and employee support for a variety of programs, including donations for education and volunteer fire departments and...Tags: Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Metal and Mineral, Massey Energy Company
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States fight to shield docs from drug data mining
AP Business WriterWhen most patients go to the pharmacy to fill a new prescription, they don't think twice about turning over the note from their doctor. After all, how much could the scrawled handwriting on that tiny slip be worth? Not much to the average consumer --...Tags: American Medical Association, Metal and Mineral, Pharmaceuticals, Court Administration, Herb Kohl
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Group says climate resolutions increase
AP Business WriterSupport for climate-change proposals may be growing among investors in big U.S. companies. Shareholder resolutions related to climate change more than doubled over the past five years, according to statistics gathered by a coalition of public interest...Tags: Ford Motor Co., Electricity Production and Distribution, Metal and Mineral, Shareholders, Ecosystems
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Matoaka land will cost $2 million
The Virginia GazetteLand that was supposed to cost the county $440,000 will end up costing nearly five times as much in a settlement announced Tuesday. James City will pay $2 million to Travis Armistead and two of his aunts for 40 acres off Brick Bat Road that is now...Tags: Volleyball, Trials, Metal and Mineral, Litigation, Lawyers
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EPA: 3 largest Wis. cities miss air standards
Associated Press WriterThe Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay areas do not meet tough new air quality standards designed to protect public health and may need additional regulations, federal regulators said Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement drew...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Metal and Mineral, Pollution, Environmental Politics
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Games give activists rare chance to call for change
Associated PressWang Yanan walked across southern China this summer, staying in rundown hotels and speaking out in village squares about her passion - saving the environment. Galvanized by China's promise of a "Green Olympics," the 23-year-old university student and...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Human Rights, Colleges and Universities, Columbia University, Demonstration
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Big mining returns to rural Mexico
Associated PressThe past of this old mining town is again reverberating through its narrow stone-paved streets, as global mining interests blast away with dynamite the mineral-rich mountain that has loomed above the town for centuries. Plumes of dust arise from...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Employees, Metal, Tourism and Leisure, San Pedro
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Mining opportunity drawing hundreds to western Ky.
New mining jobs in western Kentucky are attracting hundreds of workers to Union County. Alliance Resource Partners L.P. of Tulsa, which owns the River View mine near Uniontown, said it expects to develop an underground mining complex with up to eight...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Accuride Corporation
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Aussie outback mayor seeks "ugly duckling" women
A plea for lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" to move to a remote Australian mining town to reverse a shortage of eligible women has landed the local mayor in hot water.
Mt Isa Mayor John Molony was refusing to apologise on Monday for angering local...Tags: Regional Authority, Metal and Mineral
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