Tag: Puerto Rico
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Trump signs water projects bill with aims in Flint, Florida
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging bill to improve the nation’s water infrastructure, including a Florida project intended to reduce toxic algae blooms that have devastated coastal marine life and emptied beaches. The new law will help create a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee designed to filter out toxins that contribute…
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Seabirds Return to Desecheo Island One Year After Restoration
One year after Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico was declared free of invasive species, Island Conservation and partners are beginning to see signs of recovery, including Audubon’s Shearwaters sighted on the island for the first time and new Bridled Tern nests discovered. Historians say that you could hardly see the sky for the birds. This was…
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In Harvey’s wake, Congress advances legislation speeding Army Corps projects in Texas
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House cleared major water infrastructure legislation Wednesday night that includes provisions expediting U.S. Army Corps projects within declared disaster areas in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and other states and territories hit by natural disasters. Houston area lawmakers praised the overwhelming 408-2 House vote, which sends the measure to the Senate. The…
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U.N. Investigator on Extreme Poverty Issues Grim Report — On The U.S.A.
Philip Alston wanted to know: Just how bad is poverty in the United States? He’s an Australian law professor who in 2014 was appointed as a United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He contacted the Obama administration before the presidential election to get permission to undertake a fact-finding mission in the…
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EPA: Water at Puerto Rico Superfund site is fit for consumption
Puerto Ricans given water from hazardous site 00:51 (CNN) Water drawn from wells at a hazardous waste site in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico meets federal drinking water standards and is fit for consumption, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release on Tuesday. The water being pulled from wells at the Dorado Groundwater Contamination…
