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Construction, hiring for Nucor steel mill in Sedalia nearly underway

Sedalia Democrat 23 Jun 2018

Preparations are in full swing for Nucor Steel Sedalia LLC as the company works to establish its steel rebar micro-mill ... The company is expecting to start hiring the first of its steel mill employees in August ... The company has already hired a full-time environmental manager, who oversees this application process and the environmental management system....

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Kennecott reclamation project making progress

Deseret News 23 Jun 2018

"From an operational perspective, it improves our environmental performance," Bennett said ... Kenyon said reclamation has been a priority for the past two decades, with the company spending more than $500 million over those years to mitigate various environmental issues and modernize its mining capabilities, and those efforts are ongoing....

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World Bank shrugs off responsibility for hydro project in Laos

Asia Times 23 Jun 2018

In January, the World Bank announced in a statement that the Nam Theun 2 Environmental and Social and Project had closed on December 31....

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Small businesses and the benefits of conscious capitalism

Press Register 23 Jun 2018

Businesses are more focused than ever on socially and environmentally conscious causes ... Cuvee Coffee practices direct trade, a model that considers environmental, financial and social sustainability as well as personal relationships ... Cuvee then pays well above market prices for their coffee and in return, the company gets the very best coffee and the farmers make substantial profits....

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Canadian company moves to mine on lands cut from monument

News & Record 23 Jun 2018

The company said in a news release it would begin surface exploration this summer and that drilling will be permitted shortly ... A phone call and email message left for the company were not returned on Friday ... The four companies that have expressed interested had not taken the next required step of submitting an operations plan and undergoing an environmental review, Finch said....

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Oregon officials criticized for pesticides killing pines

Statesville Record & Landmark 23 Jun 2018

(AP) — Environmental advocates are calling out the Oregon Department of Transportation and its contractors for applying a weedkiller along a highway in Sisters that unintentionally killed hundreds of ponderosa pine trees. Environmentalists argued that the various groups involved in the project didn't abide by instructions on the chosen herbicide from the Environmental Protection Agency, The Bulletin reported Thursday....

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Guest opinion: Green groups rely on dark money, too

Billings Gazette 23 Jun 2018

The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," environmental writer Bill McKibben condemns moguls such as the Koch brothers for hiding “their contributions through outfits like DonorsTrust.” In other words, according to McKibben, DonorsTrust, which is “committed to the principles of limited government, personal responsibility and free enterprise,” is a conservative dark money conduit....

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Portion of bourbon warehouse collapses

The Paducah Sun 23 Jun 2018

"We are assessing how many of the impacted barrels can be recovered," said Amy Preske, a spokeswoman for Sazerac, a Louisiana-based spirits company ... It could be days or weeks before the company fully assesses damage to the warehouse, built in the 1940s, she said ... No one was in the building when it collapsed, the company said....

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Portion of Kentucky bourbon warehouse collapses

Waco Tribune-Herald 23 Jun 2018

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Settlement snuffs development of 18 gas leases in Thompson Divide

Aspen Times 23 Jun 2018

The BLM and a company called SG Interests reached a settlement agreement over the BLM's decision to cancel the leases in November 2016 ... Now it is," said Peter Hart, an attorney for Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop, an environmental group that's part of a coalition battling to prevent oil and gas development in Thompson Divide ... A company called Ursa Piceance LLC owned seven of the leases ... The company sought $877,000....

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Living next door to 17 million chickens: "We want a normal life"

The Guardian 23 Jun 2018

“There are various problems linked to the project, from the company’s refusal to engage in an open dialogue with the local population (and its lack of transparency and accountability) to environmental and social impacts of the project.” ... “We were not just giving money for some operations, we made the company totally revise its social and environmental procedures,” Usov said....

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India speeds up environmental approvals for industry growth, alarms activists

Deccan Chronicle 23 Jun 2018

India is fast-tracking environmental clearances for projects like power plants and coal mines in a bid to propel growth, setting off alarm bells among environmentalists and affected residents who say the decisions are being made too quickly ... Environmental group Greenpeace says India’s construction sector and coal-fired power plants are major contributors to rising levels of particulate matter in the air....

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BLM agrees to pay energy company $1.5M for canceled leases

Belleville News-Democrat 23 Jun 2018

The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to pay SG Interests $1.5 million after the energy company sued over the cancellation of 18 oil and gas leases covering more than 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) in the Thompson Divide area in western Colorado ... The company ......

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