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EPA Selects Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality for $800,000 Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grant

DALLAS – (May 8, 2020) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality will receive $800,000 as a Brownfields revolving loan fund grant.




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EPA Selects Pulaski Co., Ark., to Receive $300,000 for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment

Media contacts: Jennah Durant or Joe Hubbard, R6Press@epa.gov or 214 665-2200




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Columbia Water & Light in Missouri Honored as ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for Cost-Saving, Energy-Efficient Solutions

Environmental News  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE




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Emerson Sensi and True Manufacturing in St. Louis Metro Honored as ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year for Cost-Saving, Energy-Efficient Solutions

Environmental News  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE




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Des Moines Public Schools and Principal Real Estate Investors LLC in Iowa Honored as ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year for Cost-Saving, Energy-Efficient Solutions

Environmental News  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE




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EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region Transfers N-95 Masks to California Office of Emergency Services

SAN FRANCISCO -- Today, the U.S.




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EPA Provides Practical Tips for Americans to Prepare for Hurricane Season

WASHINGTON (May 4, 2020) -The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is highlighting National Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 3-9, 2020) to help Americans prepare for the Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 to November 30.




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Government bailout a 'last chance' for Thai Airways

National airline expected to gradually trim fleet size




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Hotel group Ashford returns payroll loans under protest

Ashford has been under intense pressure to pay back millions




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International travel for Americans could be grounded until 2021

Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin touts domestic vacations




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Airbnb lays off a quarter of workforce

About 1,900 to lose jobs worldwide




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TUI calls for post-coronavirus roadmap for European travel

Demand comes as TUI China resumes some tours




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Travel brands back campaign to provide holidays for essential workers

Give Them a Break launches this month




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BALPA calls for moratorium on airline job cuts

Pilots union wants end to 'knee-jerk decisions'




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International airline body calls for face-masks on flights

IATA warns social distancing will lead to 'dramatic' cost increases




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MPs plead with Chancellor for travel industry lifeline

Several respond to ABTA's Save Future Travel campaign




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NCLH secures sufficient funds to keep it afloat for a year

It says it can cope with 12 months' of cruise cancellations




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Union slams BA parent for fuel price error

Unite says BA staff are paying with their jobs




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Transport Sec refuses to confirm 14-day quarantine plan for UK arrivals

We'll have to wait for Sunday's statement from Boris






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Derbyshire 74 Chesterfield The virtual tourers reach Lubeckwaiting for the callhow am I still finding places I have never walked before

Gabby the virtual motorhome is on her virtual tour having now reached the lovely Lubeck . Lubeck was one of those places we first saw and read about in blogs. Other peoples blogs. Stories of parking up and wandering through its quaint walls into its equall




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Jaisalmer A trip to the Golden Fort and Desert

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Slowly Slowly What's Urdu for That... Back in Skardu again Pakistan

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Derbyshire 78 Chesterfield Day 24 Could the virus be around for two years Will we never see Europe again for two years The Brambles

I love walking on my own. It is never a lonely experience. There is too much to see and too much to take in . Even on Day 24 of the lockdown I am still finding nooks and a cranny or two in our village that I have never investigated before . Yes I am coveri




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Lake Ohrid 2 Robev Family Museum and Samuel's Fortress

After one of the best night's sleep I'd had in a long time I woke up to find my clothes all dry from the night before. Great start to the day and when I looked out of the window it looked like the rain had stopped whether that would last I wasn't too s




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Derbyshire 85 Chesterfield Every cloud and the bald man and the comb Where to head for now from Skeggy Week 5 Day 32

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JOHNNY'S JOURNEYS CALIFORNIA and NEVADA 1980

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Survival Tips for Expat in Thailand During the Outbreak

Hi everyone.hows life during COVID19I'm now in Brisbane visiting Archie. I know this is a challenging time for us. Many people have to stay away from family some people have to work from home and some might lose their jobs. I have




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Houhai and the Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling

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Derbyshire 92 Chesterfield Boris is back the clouds were social distancing rain ahead for the Bank Holiday

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Baja California Baja California Sur Mexico

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A Brew for My Bro

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Planning a Road Trip to Pai for Our Family Visit in November

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Callan Waterford

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Time for a New Blog

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The Forgotten Coast

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El Colibri for dinner

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Toronto Taxis for Shame

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Irving Dallas and Fort Worth

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Time for the emperors-in-waiting who run Facebook to just admit they're evil | Charlie Brooker

Facebook's emotion study reveals it is hopelessly disconnected from emotional reality: that people get upset when people they care about are unhappy

Alex Hern: The final straw for Facebook?

This weekend we learned that Facebook had deliberately manipulated the emotional content of 689,003 users' news feeds as part of an experiment to see what kind of psychological impact it would have. For one week in January 2012, some users saw chiefly positive stories (kitten videos, brownie recipes and assorted LOLs), while others were force-fed despair (breakups, health woes and seal-clubbing holiday snaps). And guess what happened?

"The results show emotional contagion," decided the scientists.

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Charlie Brooker | The fashion industry is responsible for everything that’s wrong with the world

If the fashion industry truly cared about the future of our planet, it would issue a solitary line of unisex, one-size-fits-all smocks, then shut down for good

So then. Alongside “eating a sandwich” and “holding up a copy of a newspaper”, we now have to add “wearing a T-shirt” to the growing list of Ordinary Things Ed Miliband Somehow Just Can’t Do. The other week he was pictured in Elle magazine wearing the Fawcett Society’s “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like” T-shirt. Last Sunday the Mail claimed those T-shirts are stitched together in a Mauritian sweatshop by women earning 62p an hour.

A T-shirt. He can’t even wear a T-shirt without somehow condemning both himself and any surrounding witnesses to ridicule. What’s going to trip him up next? A doorknob? Next week he operates a doorknob so badly he fractures his wrist, and as the medics wheel him to the operating theatre, they accidentally knock an ageing war veteran off a waiting room chair, leaving him groaning in pain on the floor, at which point Miliband insists they stop his gurney so he can lean over and help the guy up, but he forgets about his fractured wrist, so as the 96-year-old decorated-war-hero-and-humbling-inspiration-to-us-all gingerly grabs his hand, Miliband abruptly screeches a barrage of agonised obscenities directly into his face, causing him to hit the floor again, fatally this time, in front of the world’s media, oh and also Miliband does a frightened little wee at the end, and they film that too.

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The new Mario is self aware. How long before he goes inside you to fix things? | Charlie Brooker

Researchers have created a version of Mario that experiences basic emotions – now he needs a purpose that affects the real world

It’s-a-me, Mario! And soon I’ll be playing my games without your help …

January is traditionally a fairly sleepy month, current affairs-wise, but a horrified gawp at the news confirms that 2015 has already had one heck of a morning. Clearly it takes a lot to knock a garish underage sex allegation involving Prince Andrew off the news agenda, but the Parisian terror attacks managed it, partly because the horror of it all warranted such blanket coverage, but also because the resulting conversation about freedom of speech is taking up so many column inches, there’s scarcely room to run anything else. There hasn’t been this much furious debate about the merits of a cartoon since the introduction of Scrappy Doo.

(Fun imaginary scenario: in a bid to revive their flagging ratings, ITV launch a live, feelgood Saturday night version of Celebrity Pictionary. But chaos ensues when Paddy McGuinness pulls the first card from the deck to discover it requires him to sketch the Prophet Muhammad.)

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Why tug our forelocks to Richard III, a king who’s such a diva that he needs two funerals?

For somebody who did less for Britain than, say, Olly Murs, we’re making a dreadful fuss of our late monarch

Who’s your favourite dead king? For me it’s a toss-up between King Henry VIII (likes: Greensleeves, beheadings) and Nat King Cole (likes: chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose). Those are definitely my top two.

Below them, there’s King Kong, King George III, Good King Wenceslas, and about 500 other assorted types of king before you get to Richard III. Never warmed to him. Don’t know why. I’ve just never really been into Richard III. Maybe it’s his Savile-esque haircut, or the fact that his name is widely used as rhyming slang for fecal matter, or just the way he’s routinely depicted as a murderous, scheming cross between Mr Punch and Quasimodo; a panto villain with nephews’ blood on his hands.

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