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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 4:56 pm

GreenParty Delaware and Harold D. Flouhouse are now friends.

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 4:54 pm

Everyday Socialism, American-Style, Is Happening Now

An excerpt from Gar Alperovitz's new book, What Then Must We Do.

GreenParty Delaware Gar is great!

May 18, 2013 at 4:56 pm

GreenParty Delaware http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cxVt-iQC58U/Tai7YPrpyII/AAAAAAAABpc/uo43AZytoUM/s1600/alligator-gar.jpg

May 18, 2013 at 4:56 pm

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 4:49 pm

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New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

http://www.forbes.com

A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal. More impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott groups of companies who may have lobbied against a cause you believe in.

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 4:40 pm

Carping about the relative merits of shipping tar sands oil by rail or pipeline.

We are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic after hitting the iceberg (calved off of a melting glacier).

Harper takes shot at crude rail transport

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

Pipelines for heavy crude are better for the environment than transport by rail, PM claims

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 3:43 pm

Spend some time reading this site:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/China-Labor-Watch-CLW/53121919945?hc_location=stream

China Labor Watch (CLW)

Founded in 2000, China Labor Watch（中国劳工观察） is a New York-based independent NGO that promotes the rights of workers in the People's Republic of China. CLW conducts numerous undercover factory investigations, reports sub-standard working conditions and wages to the international public and media outle...

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 3:41 pm

GreenParty Delaware shared China Labor Watch (CLW)'s photo.

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UPDATE: A Chinese news agency (Wangyi Finance) came out with pictures and more information on the two workers who jumped to their deaths at the Foxconn factory making the iPhone 5 in Zhengzhou, China. http://bit.ly/10LaW8l

Below is a photo from Wangyi Finance of the 23-year old female worker who jumped off of the 12th floor of her dorm building.

By: China Labor Watch (CLW)

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 3:34 pm

KOCH DEALERS: COMING SOON TO A COMMUNITY NEAR YOU!

“For those that thought they were immune from the oil sands and the consequences of them, we’re now seeing up front and center that we’re not.”

A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit

"It’s really the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth.”

And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it.

Koch sells the high-sulfur, high-carbon waste, usually overseas, where it is burned as fuel.

“What is really, really disturbing to me is how some companies treat the city of Detroit as a dumping ground.”

An initial refining process known as coking, which releases the oil from the tarlike bitumen in the oil sands, also leaves the petroleum coke, of which Canada has 79.8 million tons stockpiled. Some is dumped in open-pit oil sands mines and tailing ponds in Alberta. Much is just piled up there.

Detroit’s pile will not be the only one. Canada’s efforts to sell more products derived from oil sands to the United States, which include transporting it through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, have pulled more coking south to American refineries, creating more waste product here.

BP, the British energy company, is building what it describes as the second-largest coke refinery in Whiting, Ind. When completed, the unit will be able to process about 102,000 barrels of bitumen or other heavy oils a day.

In China, it is used to generate electricity, adding to that country’s air-quality problems. There is also strong demand from India and Latin America for American petroleum coke, where it mainly fuels cement-making kilns.

One of the world’s largest dealers of petroleum coke is the Oxbow Corporation, which sells about 11 million tons of fuel-grade coke a year. It is owned by William I. Koch, a brother of David and Charles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/business/energy-environment/mountain-of-petroleum-coke-from-oil-sands-rises-in-detroit.html?hpw&_r=0

Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

http://www.nytimes.com

Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.

John Carter Here in Wichita where Koch Industries roosts, we keep hearing how the Kochs have no investment in the XL Pipeline, how totally disinterested they are ... which is why they were the logical choice to contribute to the government finding on the pipeline. Right.

May 18, 2013 at 3:39 pm

GreenParty Delaware The best thing that can be said about the Koch brothers is that they are so blatantly evil. The worst thing that can be said about humanity is that we never seem to deal with blatant evil very well.

May 18, 2013 at 3:46 pm

John Carter I fully expect to find out that it will be a Koch company that ships the oil to foreign ports as well. Used to be Koch Refining and Chemical that did that work but the company names shift around ... got to keep the corporate veil shifting for liability reasons.

May 18, 2013 at 3:48 pm

GreenParty Delaware Marathon is also Koch, right?

May 18, 2013 at 3:48 pm

John Carter Not sure. They have ownership in so many companies I can't keep track.

May 18, 2013 at 3:49 pm

GreenParty Delaware We mobilized in a War on Drugs, a War on Terror, a War on Fascism, Wars for Oil of course. We need to mobilize in a War on Carbon.

May 18, 2013 at 3:50 pm

John Carter Petroleum and it's byproducts inundate our culture. Koch bought Dupont's textile industry. Try living without Lycra, Dacron, Orlon or nylon.

May 18, 2013 at 3:56 pm

GreenParty Delaware We are carbon-based life forms. I mean, of course, CO2 in the atmosphere that is killing our planet.

May 18, 2013 at 4:31 pm

GreenParty Delaware Although we are constantly at war against carbon-based life forms, including our own.

May 18, 2013 at 4:32 pm

GreenParty Delaware Orlon. I don't think that's made anymore.

May 18, 2013 at 4:42 pm

GreenParty Delaware I think I'm just thinking for carpets. We had the last/only Orlon carpet in our house...it lasted forever.

May 18, 2013 at 4:44 pm

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Steven J Messick

May 18, 2013 at 2:45 pm

Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

http://www.nytimes.com

Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, which an environmentalist calls “the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth.”

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 2:04 pm

GreenParty Delaware is going to an event.

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Barbara Mullin

May 18, 2013 at 1:25 pm

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GreenParty Delaware

2013 UCS Editorial Cartoon Contest Contestants | UCSUSA

http://www.ucsusa.org

Welcome to the eighth annual scientific integrity cartoon contest! This year we're featuring a competition between an all-star lineup of cartoons from previous years.

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 5:33 am

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not-so-distant future.

Praised for the “dose of realism” he provided in his book Losing Control, King follows up in this volume with a plain-spoken assessment of where the West stands today. It’s not just the end of an age of affluence, he shows. We have made promises to ourselves that are achievable only through ongoing economic expansion. The future benefits we expect—pensions, healthcare, and social security, for example—may be larger than tomorrow’s resources. And if we reach that point, which promises will be broken and who will lose out? The lessons of history offer compelling evidence that political and social upheaval are often born of economic stagnation. King addresses these lessons with a multifaceted plan that involves painful—but necessary—steps toward a stable and just economic future.

http://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Runs-Out-Affluence/dp/0300190522

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence

http://www.amazon.com

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King wa...

GreenParty Delaware We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencies to keep money in the local area. http://www.amazon.com/Transition-Handbook-Dependency-Resilience-Guides/dp/1900322188/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368855676&sr=1-1&keywords=transition+movement

May 18, 2013 at 5:42 am

GreenParty Delaware Transition focuses on solutions, on community-scale responses, on meeting new people, and on having fun.

May 18, 2013 at 5:43 am

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GreenParty Delaware

May 18, 2013 at 4:36 am

The U.S. chemical industry is at a crossroads. We can either follow the path of
weak and inappropriate regulation — and continue to produce potentially hazardous
chemicals while manufacturing jobs disappear — or we can move toward disclosure,
regulation and sustainability, thereby encouraging innovation, creating stability
for businesses and investors and new markets for safe and sustainable chemicals.

http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/other_publication_types/green_economics/Green_Chemistry_Report_FINAL.pdf

http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/other_publication_types/green_economics/Green_Chemistry_Repo

http://www.peri.umass.edu

GreenParty Delaware Because the chemical industry passes sig
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nificant costs onto consumers and users of
chemicals, traditional chemical production
looks more competitive than it actually is.
Even low-end estimates of the health costs
of exposure to hazardous chemicals amount
to billions of dollars. In terms of children’s
health outcomes, chemical exposure has been
estimated to play a significant role in 100
percent of the cases of lead poisoning, 10 to
35 percent of asthma cases, 2 to 10 percent
of certain cancers, and 5 to 20 percent
of neurological problems. In California,
with regard to deaths specifically linked to
occupational health and safety factors, 80 to
90 percent of cancer deaths, 100 percent of
pneumoconiosis (occupational lung disease)
deaths, 40 to 50 percent of deaths associated
with neurological disorders, and 40 to 50
percent of deaths associated with renal disor
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ders are attributable to chemical exposures.

May 18, 2013 at 4:39 am

GreenParty Delaware And this is why that will not change:

May 18, 2013 at 4:41 am

GreenParty Delaware jobs in non-pharmaceutical
chemicals will be effectively cut in half by
2030 and more than 230,000 additional
jobs will disappear. These job losses will
occur despite expectations that global
production will expand by 4.5 percent on
average each year over the next decade.

May 18, 2013 at 4:41 am

Holly Noel-Liszkiewicz I wish there was a way to get rid of all chemicals, or at least make sure companies can't use toxic ones! Yea I know I'm dreamin

May 18, 2013 at 5:45 am

GreenParty Delaware Well, that report discusses how the chemical industry can be more responsible, more profitable, and employ more people, all at the same time. Of course, that's long-term profit. The industry would have to invest their short-term profits they're making now. They won't do that unless they're forced to, they're not forced to because they can outsource their production. Maybe, as gas and oil get cheaper in the US and they start to move their operations back here, they'll operate more responsibly, because we will make them.

May 18, 2013 at 6:14 am

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 7:27 pm

"Talk about horror stories, I'm..." on Sarah Langan's status.

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 4:49 pm

GreenParty Delaware is now friends with Jimmy Jam and Lisa Fe McVicker.

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 4:20 pm

GreenParty Delaware shared OccupyMARINES's photo.

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Even the new Pope Francis has attacked the ''dictatorship'' of the global financial system and warned that the ''cult of money'' is making life a misery for millions.

He said free market capitalism has created a ''tyranny'' and that people were being judged purely by their ability to consume goods.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/pope-blames-tyranny-of-capitalism-for-making-people-miserable-20130517-2jru9.html#ixzz2TZDGtjRA

By: OccupyMARINES

Mae Cousins AMEN!!!

May 17, 2013 at 5:59 pm

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 4:10 pm

GreenParty Delaware shared The 2013 Great Delaware Kayak Tour's photo.

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I'd like to thank everyone for the encouraging words and interest in this endeavor. I'm beginning to wish Delaware had a longer coast!

By: The 2013 Great Delaware Kayak Tour

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 3:38 pm

“It is a breach of their legal and moral duty for the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to fail to stop the needless fish slaughter at these three facilities by ensuring they comply with the Clean Water Act." Maya van Rossum.

With the Eastern Environmental Law Center co-signing the letter, it's obvious what's next.

http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/resources/PressReleases/PR%20announce%203%20letters%205%2016%2013.pdf

http://t.co/sohxxMlQj5

http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 3:26 pm

Heavier than normal spring rains have put the corn crop far behind schedule: Only 28 percent of corn fields have been planted this year compared with 85 percent at this time in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile, drought in the Southeastern plains and a poor hay yield have culled the U.S. cattle and calf herd to its lowest level since 1952, propelling the wholesale price of a USDA cut of choice beef to a new high on May 3.

Food supply under assault as climate heats up - NBC News.com

http://www.nbcnews.com

American eaters, let’s talk about the birds and the bees: The U.S. food supply – from chickens injected with arsenic to dying bee...

GreenParty Delaware “We are in the midst of dramatic assault on the security of the food supply.”

May 17, 2013 at 3:27 pm

GreenParty Delaware “What’s very sobering about the situation today: This is global and there isn’t any other place to go on this spaceship Earth."

May 17, 2013 at 3:28 pm

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 3:21 pm

BIKES!!

RACE SCHEDULE

Today

4 p.m. Monkey Hill Time Trial, Brandywine Park

Saturday

8 a.m. Men’s Category V 35 + (30 min.)
8:45 a.m. Men’s Category IV (45 min.)
9:45 a.m. Men’s Masters 45/55 (45 min.)
10:45 a.m. Men’s Category II-III (60 min.)
Noon The Grand’s Youth Sprints, Cadence Cycling Foundation Youth Races and Corporate Challenge
2:15 p.m. Women’s Pro, I & II(25 miles)
4 p.m. Wilmington Grand Prix
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Men’s Pro & Category I (35 miles)

Sunday

8 a.m. Third annual Governor’s Ride and Grand Prix Gran Fondo, Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington (registration for the Governor’s Ride starts at 7 a.m.)

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130517/SPORTS11/305170035/Cycling-stars-roll-Wilmington-Grand-Prix

Cycling stars roll in for Wilmington Grand Prix

http://www.delawareonline.com

The Wilmington Grand Prix will feature the strongest field in its seven-year history, with the top-four-ranked men and women in the USA Cycling National Criterium Calendar slated to compete this weekend.

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 3:17 pm

Delaware Riverkeeper, Delaware Audubon Society, Delaware Sierra Club and more: "now we’re at the point where we’re going to take action.”

http://t.co/sohxxMlQj5

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130517/NEWS/305170014/Delaware-River-water-intakes-targeted

Delaware River water intakes targeted

A three-state environmental coalition demanded government action Thursday to minimize the loss of fish and other aquatic life in the Delaware River threatened by huge cooling water intakes of three power plant and industrial sites, saying their operation under expired permits violates the Clean Wate...

Delaware Riverkeeper Network ~ NJ Sierra Club
Eastern Environmental Law Center ~ NJ Environmental Federation
Delaware Chapter Sierra Club ~ Delaware Audubon Society
American Littoral Society ~ Coalition for Peace and Justice

http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/resources/PressReleases/PR%20announce%203%20letters%205%2016%2013.pdf

http://t.co/sohxxMlQj5

http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 2:56 pm

Data Centers LLC's discussion of their CHP approach to powering their new data center to be built in Newark. The News Journal article announcing it today doesn't talk about the sustainability aspect. Yes it's gas gas gas.

"With the demand for IT increasing exponentially, many
have concluded that our generating and transmission
capacities are both stretched to the extent that we need
to consider alternative and renewable sources of energy.
Only in that way can our data center community do its
part to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and postpone
the obsolescence of our national grid."

"Postpone?" Everybody's abandoning the grid. (Including NRG...) Or, at least it isn't cost effective to increase the capacity and reliability of the grid and centralized power generation for large consumers. The Data Centers LLC (TDC) -- creatively uncreative name, btw -- will throw off excess power for us lowly grid users, improving quality, to be sure. But we need to make and own our own, too.

file:///home/chronos/user/Downloads/Zinc_Whiskers_9-12.pdf
file:///home/chronos/user/Downloads/Zinc_Whiskers_11-12.pdf

GreenParty Delaware When nanoseconds mean millions of dollars for automatic high-frequency trading, half of the trading that goes on, location is very important. The fastest computers make the most money. It's good to be "in the middle of it all..." ---- But NYSE wants its trading services to be the lowest latency systems in the world, he said. the data centers will use less power than their predecessors, although "green" isn't exactly the goal. "To be a successful competitor, our systems have to be efficient," http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/data-centers/intel-amd-servers-to-run-nyse-data-cente/224200143?pgno=2

May 17, 2013 at 3:57 pm

GreenParty Delaware High-frequency trading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading

May 17, 2013 at 4:00 pm

GreenParty Delaware SLP: the New York Stock Exchange has a group of liquidity providers called supplemental liquidly providers (SLPs), which attempt to add competition and liquidity for existing quotes on the exchange. As an incentive to the firm, the NYSE pays a fee or rebate for providing said liquidity. As of 2009, the SLP rebate was $0.0015. Multiply that by millions of transactions per day and you can see where part of the profits for high frequency trading comes from.

The SLP was introduced following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, when liquidity was a major concern for investors. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/high-frequency-trading.asp

May 17, 2013 at 4:03 pm

GreenParty Delaware HFT Profit = Speed and Reliability = Efficiency, and Proximity (it takes time to send a signal through space)

May 17, 2013 at 4:06 pm

GreenParty Delaware Evil Banksters Saving the Planet!!!

May 17, 2013 at 4:08 pm

GreenParty Delaware Incidentally. Accidentally.

May 17, 2013 at 4:13 pm

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GreenParty Delaware

May 17, 2013 at 1:49 pm

Very interesting discussions of urban agriculture. Listen while you surf.

nytenergyfortomorrow

nytenergyfortomorrow on Livestream. The New York Times will bring together some 400 leaders from the energy sector and related industries, as well as policy makers, to debate the principal challenges and opportunities in meeting the world’s energy needs.Wide-ranging in scope, the conference will inc...

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GreenParty Delaware

May 16, 2013 at 8:34 pm

GreenParty Delaware shared Delaware Sierra Club's photo.

Keystone XL Call with Michael Brune and Sierra Club Tar Sands Campaign!

By: Delaware Sierra Club

GreenParty Delaware https://www.facebook.com/events/485047428241971/485047431575304/?notif_t=like

May 16, 2013 at 8:37 pm

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GreenParty Delaware

May 16, 2013 at 8:33 pm

the Bureau of Land Management caved to the wealthy and powerful oil and gas industry and left the public to fend for itself,”

Breaking: Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules

ecowatch.com

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique—in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to…

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GreenParty Delaware

May 16, 2013 at 8:19 pm

"The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

crave.cnet.co.uk

Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

GreenParty Delaware Samsung's flagship Android phone is manufactured in facilities that look after their labourers, following guidelines such as the conventions of the International Labour Organization and United Nations. The phone is made without hazardous materials such as nickel, beryllium, and mercury so it can be recycled when you grow sick of it. And the charger is efficient enough to save you money, to boot. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsung-galaxy-s4-is-first-phone-to-win-green-tco-award-50011239/

May 16, 2013 at 8:21 pm

GreenParty Delaware Send yours to me when you grow sick of it.

May 16, 2013 at 8:31 pm

Zio Z Zio just like that... only more

May 17, 2013 at 10:25 am

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SkyTruth Alterts for the Region
- NRC Report: (Un 3265) Phosphonic Acid near Fredericksburg, VA May 18, 2013
  Incident Type: MOBILE - NRC Report ID: 1047444 - Medium Affected: LAND - Suspected Responsible Party: PITT OHIO […]
- NRC Report: Oil: Diesel near Rutherford, PA May 18, 2013
  Incident Type: MOBILE - NRC Report ID: 1047443 - Medium Affected: LAND - Suspected Responsible Party: […]
- NRC Report: Unknown Petroleum Products near West Chester, PA May 17, 2013
  Incident Type: FIXED - NRC Report ID: 1047359 - Medium Affected: SOIL - Suspected Responsible Party: LARRY WOODWARD/BCHS, INC […]
- NRC Report: Unknown Oil in Arthur Kill Ri near Carteret, NJ May 17, 2013
  Incident Type: UNKNOWN SHEEN - NRC Report ID: 1047292 - Medium Affected: WATER - Suspected Responsible Party: […]
- NRC Report: Unknown Oil in Patapsco River near Baltimore, MD May 17, 2013
  Incident Type: UNKNOWN SHEEN - NRC Report ID: 1047298 - Medium Affected: WATER - Suspected Responsible Party: […]
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