Orlando’s secret life of sewers: What workers hope you never know
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Elizabeth Duan | November 18, 2020
“Florida has hundreds of private and public sewers. They are vital for protecting human health. They can be an asset or a villain in the struggle to heal sickly rivers and coastal waters. Sewage challenges will amplify with population growth and as rising sea levels drown sewers of ...
Letter to the Editor: More lessons from the pandemic
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Peter Jenkins |
“The Nov. 15 editorial “To catch a killer” was spot on as far as the world’s need to learn from the current pandemic to prevent the next one. It identified several concrete steps but omitted one. A travesty occurred in April when President Trump, based ...
Trump Names Ex-Northrop Exec as Chemical Safety Board Adviser
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Elizabeth Duan |
“President Donald Trump‘s late-in-term appointment of a former Northrop Grumman Corp. vice president as an adviser to the federal chemical safety board has raised eyebrows in the worker advocacy community. As the Trump administration winds down, there is also the question of Lemos ...
‘Forever chemicals’ found in Chesapeake seafood and Maryland drinking water
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Elizabeth Duan | November 17, 2020
“More testing has found so-called “forever chemicals” in a striped bass, blue crab and oyster from the Chesapeake Bay, as well as in drinking water from household taps in Maryland’s Montgomery County. Laboratory analyses released by the nonprofit group Public Employees for ...
Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia On the Offensive Again
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia wants to purge a member of the planning and zoning board for saying something that she didn’t like. Rob Long is that board member. A civil engineer by training, he’s also chairman of the Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District. ...
NASA loses bid to list contaminated tract as historic site
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Elizabeth Duan | November 16, 2020
“The National Park Service has issued a first-round denial to NASA’s request to conserve one of America’s most contaminated sites, a move that critics said would allow the government to sidestep cleanup efforts. NASA applied to add the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near ...