EPA seeks review of Plum Island sale impact on environment
EPA officials urge a thorough environmental review of selling Plum Island home to an animal disease lab. The process should study lab testing effects, potential contamination, and endangered species including piping plovers and roseate terns. The two page letter accompanies the GSA environmental impact study and public comment process.
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Garden City
N.Y
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
Judith Enck
H. Curtis Spalding
Associated Press
Plum Island
New York
Long Island
Audubon New York
Federal General Services Administration
Manhattan
Kan
U.S. Army
David Huxsell
New York State
Sean Mahar
Long Island Sound
GSA
Connecticut
Paula Santangelo
Scientists ID Whitman meteor event via art clues
A Sky and Telescope team links Whitman 1859 1860 poems to a real sky show the Great Comet of 1860 and a meteor procession in Frederic Edwin Church’s painting The Meteor of 1860. The duo aligns Whitman’s lines with two celestial displays seen in June 1860 and depicted by Church.
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Los Angeles
Walt Whitman
Sky and Telescope Magazine
Whitman
Olson
Frederic Edwin Church
Marines rehearse large scale Dawn Blitz at California beach
At Camp Pendleton hundreds of Marines in seafaring tanks staged a two week Dawn Blitz exercise just off the Southern California coast. The mock invasion on the eve of the D-Day anniversary tested amphibious readiness amid debates over the future of large scale landings and defense budget cuts.
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Camp Pendleton
Calif
Rex McMillian
California
Navy
Afghanistan
Iraq
Defense
Robert Gates
McMillian
Normandy
Howard Hall
Gates
U.S
Ex-UMass student gets pretrial probation ending case
In Hampshire Superior Court Jason Vassell, a former University of Massachusetts student, will have the remaining 2 1 2 year pretrial probation completed by August in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges tied to a racially charged dorm fight. Supporters hail the outcome as a victory and praise Vassell's conduct during probation while his lawyer notes his clean record.
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Northampton
Mass
University of Massachusetts
Jason Vassell
Vassell
Jason
Jasmin Torrejon
Justice For
Umass
Boston
Elizabeth Dunphy Farris
Hampshire Superior Court
David House
House
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CONN
Esri AP
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Los
AGU
Amy Thompson
Lorain Ibank
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