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	<title>Baltimore Brew &#187; Chesapeake Bay and pollution</title>
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		<title>Groups asking EPA to take over pollution permitting call Sparrows Point &quot;big example&quot; of lax&#160;enforcement</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/12/08/groups-asking-epa-to-take-over-pollution-permitting-call-sparrows-point-big-example-of-lax-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER The Sparrows Point steel mill is discharging pollutants into Baltimore’s outer harbor under a state permit that expired 45 months ago and has not been updated since 2001, a review of Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) records shows. The failure of MDE to review and reissue pollution permits “in a timely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA, state tell Sparrows Point to finalize clean-up&#160;plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Bay Foundation threatens to sue over Sparrows Point&#160;pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/11/30/bay-foundation-threatens-to-sue-over-sparrows-point-pollution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER      The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is again threatening to sue environmental regulators and Severstal North America if action is not taken against illegal discharges of cancer-causing benzene and other pollutants into Baltimore harbor.      Jon A. Mueller, CBF’s director of litigation, criticized state and federal agencies for not insisting that immediate measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severstal seeks to curb its liability for harbor&#160;pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/11/25/severstal-seeks-to-curb-its-liability-for-harbor-pollution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER      Faced with potentially huge environmental costs, Severstal North America has told regulators that it is not responsible for investigating or cleaning up Sparrows Point-related pollution that entered Baltimore harbor before the company purchased the steel plant in May 2008.      The company’s objections threaten to delay action to reduce high levels [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Marylanders grow their own oysters to clean Chesapeake Bay, boost the oyster&#160;population</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/08/28/marylanders-grow-their-own-oysters-to-clean-chesapeake-bay-boost-the-oyster-population/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s oyster season in Maryland: not for oyster eaters, but for oyster growers. Yesterday was the first day of delivery of young oysters &#8211; oyster spat &#8211; to residents along the Severn River who are participating in the state’s Marylanders Grow Oysters program. More oyster spat were to be delivered today and Monday. Participants sign [...]]]></description>
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