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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>Hearing tonight on Sparrows Point&#160;pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/24/hearing-tonite-on-sparrows-point-pollution/</link>
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		<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>State touted Sparrows Point pollution controls, but never made them&#160;happen</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/03/04/state-touted-sparrows-point-pollution-controls-but-never-made-them-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER Three facilities hailed as crucial to reducing chemical and metal wastes at the Sparrows Point steel mill remain unfinished, out of service or never started &#8212; 13 years after the company signed a consent decree promising to install the equipment. The failure to get these recycling projects in operation is a case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparrows Point furnace &quot;belches&quot; continue: worried workers blame company&#160;cost-cutting</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2009/12/15/sparrows-point-furnace-belches-continue-worried-workers-blame-company-cost-cutting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by MARK REUTTER The Sparrows Point blast furnace, under investigation for a fireball of smoke and debris three months ago, is acting erratically and releasing untreated pollutants into the atmosphere. The mammoth, 300-foot-high L furnace has “slipped” as many as 30 times a week in the last month, a quantum leap above its historic level, [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<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>
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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>
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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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