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Mortgage Rates Fall For Third Straight Week Rates on 30-year mortgages fell for a third straight week, dropping to the lowest level since mid-July. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages dipped to 6.35...Tags: Economic Indicator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Freddie Mac, Petroleum Industry, Marketing
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EPA to limit lawn mower emissions
Gasoline-powered lawn mowers that are a big cause of summertime air pollution will have to be cleaner under rules issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The long-awaited regulation requires a 35 percent reduction in emissions from new...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution, Regional Authority
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Trial nears end in multimillion-dollar asbestos suit
247-4749When he began working as a boilermaker 40 years ago, shipyard worker John O. Koonce didn't know the dangers the tiny asbestos fibers could wrought. Shipyard employees were trained to look out for dangerous odors, for example, but the tiny particles &#...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lawyers, Justice System, Shipbuilding, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Lawn mowers must go green by 2011, EPA says
Associated PressWASHINGTON—Gasoline-powered lawn mowers that are a big cause of air pollution will have to be dramatically cleaner under rules issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The long-awaited regulation requires a 35 percent reduction in...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Missouri, Home and Garden Products, Environmental Pollution
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Ethanol: energy's golden child dodges more darts
AP Business WriterEthanol's wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger to pork-barrel spending. This week, the Republican Party in its national platform called for an end to ethanol...Tags: Ethanol, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Republican National Conventions, Petroleum Industry, Iowa
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Are plastics safe?
Special to The TimesTHIRTEEN-MONTH-OLD Solange Dorsainvil plays with toys made from wood and cloth, drinks from a Swiss-made aluminum sippy cup and teethes on kale stems and celery. Her life is as plastic-free as her mother, Celina Lyons, can make it. Celina, a Berkeley-...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health, Toys, Western Medicines
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Granite, radon and radiation
peggy.brown@newsday.comYou might have heard of granite in the news recently - not for its beauty or practicality, but for its potential dangers. With the increased popularity of granite in kitchens, there have been reports that some of these natural stones emit radon - a...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Long Island, Home Depot Incorporated, Regional Authority, Television Industry
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Radon and radiation in granite
peggy.brown@newsday.comNot that long ago, Kevin McGovern, owner of Mirage Studios in Valley Stream, specialized in installing faux finishes and decorative plaster. But then an architect he'd worked with suggested that the coming thing just might be concrete countertops for...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Los Angeles, Building Material, House and Home, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Bridgestone America Commits to National Lead-Free Wheel Weight Initiative
Edmunds.comMajor tire maker Bridgestone America announced today that it will no longer use lead wheel weights. The company, which operates 2,000 tire service stores across the U.S., made the announcement at a joint press conference in Detroit at which the federal... -
EPA adds East Chicago site to Superfund list
Federal regulators have named an old industrial complex in northwestern Indiana as one of the nation's most hazardous pollution sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday named the U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery in East Chicago to...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Indiana, Regional Authority
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Hundreds of barrels discovered in SW Mich. field
Government officials are investigating the discovery in a Kalamazoo County field of about 400 barrels that might contain hazardous materials. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tells Kalamazoo TV station WWMT that it has been monitoring the area's...Tags: Texas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution, Television Industry, Michigan
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EPA may add Milford's Curtis site to Superfund list
Of The Morning CallAs the mayor of Milford in Hunterdon County, N.J., James A. Gallos has known the future of his tiny borough rests in its toxic past as a mill town along the scenic Delaware River. Since 2003 when Milford's largest employer, Curtis Specialty Papers,...Tags: Hunterdon County, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Montgomery County (Maryland), Delaware River, New Jersey
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