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		<title>After merger, a major new watershed watchdog: Blue Water&#160;Baltimore</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/01/27/after-merger-a-big-new-watershed-watchdog-blue-water-baltimore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fertilizers, trash, sediment, industrial particulates and pet poop -- Baltimore's Harbor and its streams and rivers soak up a steady diet of scuzzy stuff.

Now, the city's watershed organizations have joined forces to form a single mega-group meant to help Baltimore clean up its act.]]></description>
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		<title>Holt and Kamenetz on Sparrows&#160;Point</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/10/25/holt-and-kamenetz-on-sparrows-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do about disappearing jobs and lingering contamination at the steel mill? We asked the candidates for Baltimore County Executive their thoughts on the Point's future and how they would steer it . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Sparrows Point furnace &#8220;slipped&#8221; hundreds of times, releasing toxic&#160;gases</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/08/16/15926/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/08/16/15926/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ira Rennert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Severstal kept its blast furnace going last fall and winter, despite repeated malfunctions that shot carbon monoxide, iron dust and other wastes into the air. Meanwhile, they were telling state environmental officials, who have not cited them, that the problem was fixed. ]]></description>
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		<title>Masonville Cove could create Baltimore&#8217;s next waterfront&#160;hotspot</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/08/10/masonville/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/08/10/masonville/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Neily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's got premium birding, harbor views of downtown B-more and a funky (hopefully not too funky) link to the working Port. How the new nature park could sprinkle this waterfront pixie dust on nearby neighborhoods....  ]]></description>
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		<title>Strange silence from Maryland politicians on Sparrows Point&#160;pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/07/22/maryland-politicians-strange-silence-on-pollution-at-sparrows-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/07/22/maryland-politicians-strange-silence-on-pollution-at-sparrows-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.baltimorebrew.com/?p=15252</guid>
		<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>EPA: car-parts wrong fuel for SoBo&#160;trash-incinerator</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/07/06/epa-car-parts-wrong-fuel-for-sobo-trash-incinerator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/07/06/epa-car-parts-wrong-fuel-for-sobo-trash-incinerator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from the Environmental Protection Agency agreed with what an environmental group&#8217;s attorney said at a Curtis Bay meeting recently about a proposed trash-burning power plant in south Baltimore: Maryland was wrong to set licensing conditions that would allow the plant to burn old tires and junked car parts, as well as municipal trash, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle heating up over south Baltimore trash-burning&#160;plant</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/29/14288/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/29/14288/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth or greenwashing? Proponents of power plant that would burn trash, old tires and car parts say it would be a clean, green source of renewable power and jobs.]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/25/tempers-flare-at-sparrows-point-pollution-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<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>Hearing tonight on Sparrows Point&#160;pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/24/hearing-tonite-on-sparrows-point-pollution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/24/hearing-tonite-on-sparrows-point-pollution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The furnaces may soon be temporarily idled, but the longstanding issue of pollution at the Sparrows Point steel mill will be the subject of a public hearing tonight at the North Point-Edgemere Volunteer Fire Hall, 7500 North Point Rd., between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Maryland Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steelmaking&#8217;s future at Sparrows Point:&#160;uncertain</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/22/no-guarantee-that-steelmaking-will-resume-anytime-soon-at-sparrows-point-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/22/no-guarantee-that-steelmaking-will-resume-anytime-soon-at-sparrows-point-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an e-mail to members, union chief John Cirri said, “Our furnace being shut down is a dark moment in our history. Also, a dark moment is your union being shut out of very important decisions being made that will affect the livelihood of its members…]]></description>
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