The surcharge is to remain in effect until the city has recovered the capital costs it is incurring by installing or modifying equipment needed to facilitate the processing of scavenger waste. Indiana Department of Environmental Management hopes to begin testing by the end of June, said Janet McCabe, assistant commissioner of the Office of Air Management. The panel released a landmark report assessing the impact of a rise of five to 10 degrees Fahrenheit in temperatures on U.S. agriculture, forestry, fishing and other sectors by 2100. U.S. coastal communities and mountain areas will see some of the biggest changes, while Kansas and other south-central states may have to stop growing wheat and adopt crops that thrive in hotter temperatures, the report said. Throughout the nation, Americans can expect more weather extremes such as drought and flooding.
Refiners claim reformulated gasoline prices are high because supplies are low.
Ala. In time, the 18 of them learned to put up with the rotten-cabbage odor that wafted through town. The plant, after all, is what stood between many residents and poverty. The Monsanto plant has made industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals since the 1930s. But for decades it also saturated west Anniston with polychlorinated biphenyls. PCBs have long been linked to cancer.