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		<title>Catholic and Episcopal bishops call for health study of Sparrows Point&#160;pollution</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/07/26/15368/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clerics' plea for an investigation of Bear Creek pollution is batted aside by EPA, which wants to delay action until completion of an offshore study . . . that Severstal is disputing.]]></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>
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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>Steelmaking at Sparrows Point to continue through&#160;July</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/07/06/steelmaking-at-sparrows-point-to-continue-through-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decision by Severstal owner Alexei Mordashov to delay shutdown means that furnaces won’t reopen until at least October – or twice the period originally announced.]]></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>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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		<title>&#8220;Buy America&#8221; rules will complicate use of Russian steel at Sparrows&#160;Point</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/17/buy-america-rules-will-complicate-use-of-russian-steel-at-sparrows-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/17/buy-america-rules-will-complicate-use-of-russian-steel-at-sparrows-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Severstal Sparrows Point – and its customers – will be walking a legal tightrope in the coming weeks because the steel slabs the company has just imported from Russia are barred from projects funded with federal dollars, including federal stimulus money.

“Buy America” provisions require that all processes that melt, make or modify the shape of steel must be conducted within U.S. borders. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Russian steel has&#160;arrived</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/14/the-russian-steel-has-arrived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close to 1,000 slabs of Russian steel have been unloaded from a Bulgarian ship at Severstal Sparrows Point in anticipation of using the metal to fulfill customer orders when the steelmaking side of the complex is idled next month.]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore Brew goes&#160;international</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/11/the-brew-goes-international-japanese-film-our-kitchen-table-operation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Baltimore Brew found itself being filmed by a six-person news crew from NHK -- Japan's version of the BBC -- and this surreal experience, Brew readers, requires more than a Tweet to convey.]]></description>
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		<title>Steel slabs, soon to arrive from Russia, will escalate Sparrows Point&#160;dispute</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2010/06/10/steel-slabs-about-to-arrive-from-russia-will-escalate-sparrows-point-dispute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Reutter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Severstal is shipping steel slabs from Russia, an action that is sure to inflame union-management tensions as the Sparrows Point steel mill prepares for a temporary shutdown of its furnaces.]]></description>
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