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Major Cleanup Underway After Storm Batters Northeastern US, Knocks out Power and Floods Roads

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Utility crews worked Tuesday to restore power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Maine and some rivers continued to rise following a powerful storm that hit the northeastern U.S., drenching communities and bringing windspeeds over …

FAA Proposes Space Junk Clean-Up Rule to Declutter Earth’s Orbit

A new proposed rule would require commercial space companies to clean up some of their junk. The US Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday released a proposal to limit the uncontrolled reentry of a launch vehicle’s upper stage — the part of …

Lawyer: Union Carbide Cleanup Must Go Through Federal Court

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An attorney for a landholding company that has sued the Union Carbide Corp. over contamination of a West Virgina property is objecting to a proposal from the chemical giant to voluntarily clean up the site, …

Viewpoint: How Undead Corporations Can Help Fund Oregon’s Environmental Cleanup

We all know that corporations and limited liability companies can die. In actuality, they are dissolved and given time to wind up their affairs, but the point is that after five years following proper notice to potential creditors and other …

Illinois FEMA Appeal to Focus on Frigid Weather

Gov. Pat Quinn says his appeal over denied federal disaster aid will focus on clean-up difficulties during the recent frigid temperatures. The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Thursday Illinois’ request for $6.1 million in assistance to local governments recovering from …

Picking Up Fallen Nebraska Trees May Take a Month

Lincoln, Neb., officials guess that it might take the city a month to pick up all the fallen tree limbs that succumbed to last weekend’s heavy, wet snow. In the initial cleanup officials are focused on removing tree limbs from …

Road Crews Clear Deer from West Virginia Highways Daily

Deer season starts in November for hunters, but for highway maintenance crews, it lasts all year. Crews are out on West Virginia’s more than 38,400 miles of roads each day clearing carcasses. The Daily Mail reports that the state has …

BP Gets $4 Billion from Anadarko for Oil Spill Costs

Anadarko Petroleum Corp will pay BP Plc $4 billion toward clean-up and victim compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The amount is less than BP might have won in court, but it softens the blow of overall spill-related …