EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
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Two Northwest Indiana activism groups joined other environmental groups in sending a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in objection to an air monitoring permit recently approved
This funding allows us to methodically address properties that have constrained local development," the South Fulton City Manager said.
As director of the nonprofit Save the Bay, David Lewis has spent a lifetime fighting for resources - money to expand healthy tidal marshes, tighten wastewater standards, and push back on the kind of development that's already covered miles of shoreline with landfill.
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