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Lawmakers OK funding for hazardous cleanup
- The Reading Eagle
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12/14/2007 |
| Work will continue on 11 hazardous waste sites in Berks County after state lawmakers struck a last-minute deal to fund a statewide cleanup program Thursday. | |
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Pa. House rescues a cleanup program
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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12/13/2007 |
| An environmental crisis has been averted in Pennsylvania, as the state House yesterday approved - unanimously and with stunning speed - a three-year funding plan for the state's hazardous-sites cleanup program. | |
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House votes on cleanup bill today
- Bucks County Courier Times
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12/12/2007 |
| The state House of Representatives expects to vote today on a bill that could help clean up nine abandoned industrial sites in Bucks County and fund crews that mop up hazardous spills after train derailments and traffic crashes. | |
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Legislators: Reauthorize Hazardous Sites Cleanup Fund Act
- Main Line Times
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09/27/2007 |
| The Main Line's counties currently have more hazardous waste sites than almost any other counties in the Commonwealth. Sadly, Montgomery County has more toxic sites being cleaned under the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Fund than any other Pennsylvania county. Twenty-three toxic sites are actively in the cleanup process. | |
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Hazardous-site program barely going, official says
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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09/25/2007 |
| Hobbled by years of shrinking budgets and now facing a complete loss of funding by Dec. 31, Pennsylvania's hazardous-sites cleanup program is running on fumes, attending to only the most serious threats to public health. | |
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Bill Critical to Future Recycling
- Wilkes Barre Times Leader
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07/19/2008 |
| Many of the county's popular and successful drop-off recycling programs might disappear if state legislators do not pass a bill that would allow counties to fund the programs. | |
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Landfill-fee ruling could can Cambria recycling money
- Johnstown Tribune Democrat
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07/19/2008 |
| Recycling programs across the state are in jeopardy because landfill fees that funded them were struck down by Commonwealth Court and state legislators have not acted. | |
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Legislature needs to grant counties the authority to fund environmentally programs through a tax
- Harrisburg Patriot-News
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07/17/2008 |
| One piece of unfinished legislative business that needs to be addressed is a shortage of funding for county recycling programs. | |
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Legislature must repair measure to enable county recycling programs
- Allentown Morning Call
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07/16/2008 |
| Because it is an important piece of environmental responsibility, government from the local level on up should help people to do recycling. | |
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Congressman gets a green thumbs-up
- Delaware County Daily Times
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07/07/2008 |
| Congressman Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, was lauded by the state advocacy group PennEnvironment for his environmental voting record. | |
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