Message from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy The Year Ahead – 2015 Public health is critical to a strong economy. Since EPA’s founding, the agency has cut air pollution by 70%, cleaned up waterways, and redeveloped Brownfields sites; meanwhile the economy has tripled. Administrator McCarthy created a video for EPA staff where she walks through the […]
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SETF, the Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke and the National Nurses United along held a joint press conference to call attention to the overwhelming community support for a ban on the handling, shipping and transport of pet coke in the 10th ward and to clear up some of the confusion caused by the flurry
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Gotham Greens to Add ‘World’s Largest Rooftop Farm’ to Pullman Soap Factory By Mark Konkol on October 7, 2014 4:18pm @KonkolsKorner Gotham Greens 75,000-square-foot greenhouse atop Method’s soap factory in Pullman could produce 40 jobs and up to a million pounds of produce per year. PULLMAN — Vacant land where railroad mogul George Pullman
Starve a Landfill — Efficiency in the Kitchen to Reduce Food Waste — By KIM SEVERSONMARCH 3, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/dining/efficiency-in-the-kitchen-to-reduce-food-waste.html?ref=dining&_r=1 SEATTLE – The nation’s first citywide composting program based largely on shame began here in January. City sanitation workers who find garbage cans filled with aging lettuce, leftover pizza or even the box it came in
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