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		<title>Shipyard sues Sparrows Point for benzene cleanup&#160;costs</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/09/22/shipyard-sues-sparrows-point-for-benzene-cleanup-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leakage of cancer-causing benzene by the Sparrows Point steel mill has provoked a lawsuit by a private party. SPS Limited Partnership and SPS 35, owners of the former Bethlehem Steel shipyard located alongside the steel mill, have filed suit in federal court demanding compensation for more than $1.4 million they reportedly spent in studying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange silence from Maryland politicians on Sparrows Point&#160;pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With pollutants like benzene oozing into the groundwater and air -- right next to 20,000 Maryland residents and water leading to Chesapeake Bay -- the Severstal steel mill should have Maryland's political leaders howling. Why has there been hardly a peep?]]></description>
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		<title>Tempers flare at Sparrows Point pollution&#160;meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/25/tempers-flare-at-sparrows-point-pollution-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A spreading benzene plume leaching into groundwater, an unlined landfill and plans to create a new landfill were among the environmental problems at the steel mill that residents say state and federal officials are mishandling.]]></description>
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		<title>EPA, state tell Sparrows Point to finalize clean-up&#160;plans</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/12/07/epa-state-tell-sparrows-point-to-finalize-clean-up-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER      Environmental regulators are asking the Sparrows Point steel mill to prepare final cleanup procedures at three sites where chemical wastes have been buried for decades. Although the sites were part of a court-ordered cleanup in 1997, this is the first time regulators are requiring corrective measures, rather than open-ended studies, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turners Station residents say Sparrows Point pollution is hurting the land and their&#160;health</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/12/03/turners-station-residents-say-sparrows-point-pollution-is-hurting-the-land-and-their-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Maryland Port Administration pollution study shows that Turners Station is the community most affected by contaminated water coming from Sparrows Point. ]]></description>
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		<title>High levels of Sparrows Point benzene confirmed by Port study, chemical may have reached nearby&#160;communities</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/12/02/high-levels-of-sparrows-point-benzene-confirmed-by-port-study-chemical-may-have-reached-nearby-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/12/02/high-levels-of-sparrows-point-benzene-confirmed-by-port-study-chemical-may-have-reached-nearby-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER      A widely anticipated Maryland Port Administration study mapping pollution coming from the Sparrows Point steel mill confirms that cancer-causing benzene has infiltrated Baltimore harbor and may have migrated to shorefront communities through harbor currents and tides.      The report, dated Nov. 2009, has not yet been posted on the agency’s website or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparrows Point admits toxic chemicals have been leaking into harbor for&#160;years</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/11/23/sparrows-point-admits-toxic-chemicals-have-been-leaking-into-harbor-for-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/11/23/sparrows-point-admits-toxic-chemicals-have-been-leaking-into-harbor-for-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dangerously high levels of benzene and naphthalene, both carcinogens, have been leaking into Baltimore harbor for the last eight years from an abandoned facility at the Sparrows Point steel mill, according to reports by the mill&#8217;s own environmental consultant. These reports were found in records examined by The Baltimore Brew under the Maryland Public Information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution at the Point: environmental contamination at Sparrows Point, a Baltimore Brew investigative&#160;report</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/11/22/pollution-at-the-point-environmental-contamination-at-sparrows-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/11/22/pollution-at-the-point-environmental-contamination-at-sparrows-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could this be happening? In the waters around the Severstal steel mill at Sparrows Point, 10 miles from downtown Baltimore, concentrations of dangerous chemicals have been increasing. Now, as you&#8217;ll read in tomorrow&#8217;s Baltimore Brew, it turns out that the plant and the state of Maryland have known for at least four years about [...]]]></description>
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