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Official: Coal ash deadlines straining environmental agency
2016-01-14 04:36:24| Waste Management - Topix.net
A coal ash cleanup law has stretched staff members at North Carolina's environmental regulation agency "to the absolute breaking point" as they analyze voluminous data to meet deadlines, a top agency official told lawmakers Wednesday. Tom Reeder, assistant secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality, made the remarks as part of a status report on storage sites for the residue created when power plants burn coal.
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Environmental agency tackles year of challenges
2016-01-10 18:34:17| Waste Management - Topix.net
Utah's land, air and water were besieged by a number of challenges in 2015, with state regulators tackling all manner of concerns, such as response to the 3-million gallon Gold King Mine spill and continued monitoring of a migrating groundwater plume on Salt Lake City's east bench. In its annual State of the Environment report, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality took a look back on the milestones accomplished over the past 12 months and the problems that are likely to persist.
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Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency
2016-01-09 09:07:55| Telecom - Topix.net
Juniper Networks Inc said late on Friday it would stop using a piece of security code that analysts believe was developed by the National Security Agency in order to eavesdrop through technology products. The Silicon Valley maker of networking gear said it would ship new versions of security software in the first half of this year to replace those that rely on numbers generated by Dual Elliptic Curve technology.
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Environmental agency tackles year of challenges
2016-01-06 12:26:49| Waste Management - Topix.net
Utah's land, air and water were besieged by a number of challenges in 2015, with state regulators tackling all manner of concerns, such as response to the 3-million gallon Gold King Mine spill and continued monitoring of a migrating groundwater plume on Salt Lake City's east bench. In its annual State of the Environment report, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality took a look back on the milestones accomplished over the past 12 months and the problems that are likely to persist.
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Health agency takes on advertising for electronic cigarettes
2016-01-06 00:32:44| Biotech - Topix.net
" The nation's lead public health agency on Tuesday focused its attack on electronic cigarettes on the issue of advertising, saying too many kids see the ads. There are bans on TV commercials and some other types of marketing for regular cigarettes but there are no restrictions on advertisements for e-cigarettes.
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