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Alan Newman

SmartPlanet - We Make You Smarter - People, Business & Technology - 0 views

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shared by Alan Newman on 08 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Alan Newman on 08 Jul 10
     
    Good environmental focused blogs that cover business, science, technology
Korry Busch

Connection to your future self impacts your financial decision-making - 0 views

www.kurzweilai.net/your-financial-decision-making

shared by Korry Busch on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Korry Busch on 13 Jul 11
     
    How connected consumers feel (or don't feel) to their future selves impacts their spending and savings decisions, researchers at Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business have determined.
David Hoffelmeyer

Millions of Australian spiders gather and spin new webs to escape flooding - 0 views

twentytwowords.com/...in-new-webs-to-escape-flooding

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shared by David Hoffelmeyer on 07 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • David Hoffelmeyer on 07 Mar 12
     
    From International Business Times… The flood is finally over for Wagga Wagga residents. However, damages of properties, loss of lives and injuries will remain in the memories of the people…. While everyone is looking at re-establishing properties, countless hairy-legged critters are busying rebuilding their homes.
Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

www.stlamerican.com/...80-11e0-ad2d-001cc4c03286.html

Carter EPA site

shared by Lamar Miller on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
  • Adeola Adewale on 15 Jun 11
     
    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
  • Lamar Miller on 30 Jun 11
     
    Plans
David Hoffelmeyer

Carter Carburetor Timeline - 0 views

www.stltoday.com/...85-53b0-8b9a-d02669bd647d.html

EPA Superfund PCB weak attribution

shared by David Hoffelmeyer on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • David Hoffelmeyer on 14 Jun 11
     
    Most recent Post-Dispatch article on the carburetor plant. It lacks attribution, but it helps contextualize the story of the plant's downturn.
Andrew Flachs

Several area construction projects advance - 0 views

www.stltoday.com/...16-539a-aa23-33cafe3ee486.html

Carter Carburetor Lawrence Group STL post

shared by Andrew Flachs on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Andrew Flachs on 14 Jun 11
     
    Carter Carburetor has been bought by the Lawrence Group, which wants to develop the hazardous site into a performing arts charter school. Cites Steve Smith, president of the Lawrence Group. Notes funding but does not cite sources on it.
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