By Meredith Warfield Black walnut trees are dying in Morgan and Rhea counties of eastern Tennessee. The culprit, according to a Tennessee Department of Agriculture announcement made this November, is Thousand Cankers Disease. The disease is a recent phenomenon in…
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Thousand Cankers Disease Hits East Tennessee
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Bills on the Hill
A Look at Environmental Happenings in Congress The Good Mine and Workplace Safety and Health Act ( S. 805 / H.R. 1373): Introduced for the fourth time by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) since 29 miners were killed in the 2010…
TAGS: "Dirty Water Act" 2013 Farm Bill Clean Water Act Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act Coal Jobs Protection Act Coal Mine Safety Act Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act EPA Fair Play Act House Committee on Energy and Commerce Mine and Workplace Safety and Health Act Representative David McKinley Representative John Mica Representative Shelley Moore Capito Rural Energy Savings Program Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Senator Jay Rockefeller Senator Joe Manchin Senator Mitch McConnell Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Supply Star U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Upper Big Branch mine disaster
