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06/17: Business events
Chamber Daytona: Leadership Luncheon: Make Difficult People Disappear, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 pm June 28, SW Grill, Sunset Harbor, 861 Ballough Road, Daytona Beach. Cost: $15 for DB Leadership Council members, $25 nonmembers. Details: 386-523-3675 or josie@...
Tags: Siemens, Media Industry, Panera Bread Company, AAA, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Coal plants hit by groups in pollution plan
TALLAHASSEE — Environmentalists are questioning Florida's latest plans to comply with federal clean-air requirements without mandating that two of its heaviest-polluting coal-fired power plants meet the stricter pollution limits. Last month, the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Gulf Power Company, Mining, Metal and Mineral, Progress Energy Incorporated
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Environmental groups questioning DEP air-pollution plan
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Environmentalists are questioning Florida's latest plans to comply with federal clean air requirements without mandating that two of its heaviest-polluting coal-fired power plants meet the stricter pollution limits. Last month, the...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Gulf Power Company, Science and Technology, Panama
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Duke donations key on science, education
Duke Energy Florida, the Orlando area's biggest electrical utility, lit up a few charities in the region recently by donating a combined $260,000. The St. Petersburg-based unit of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp. is distributing the money among...Tags: Science, Charity, Environmental Issues, Social Issues, State Farm Insurance
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Hit hard by copper wire thieves, PPL fights back
With its substations increasingly targeted by copper thieves, PPL is upping security and putting scrap dealers who may receive the stolen wiring on alert. The utility has suffered about two dozen copper wire thefts throughout its Pennsylvania service...
Tags: Bucks County, Theft, Criminals
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The climate change guilt trip
A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he'd had playing with his two young daughters during the mellow evenings. It had been...
Tags: Global Change, Passenger Cars, Environmental Issues, Prius, Politics
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Weather: Storms to continue this evening in Metro Orlando
Storms that have been roaring through Central Florida will continue for another couple of hours, the National Weather Service in Melbourne said. Orlando, Volusia County and Lake County will continue to see rain, forecasters said. The worst of the...
Tags: Volusia County, National Weather Service, Osceola County, Lake County (Florida), Seminole County
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Mikulski campaign account boosted by chairmanship
In addition to having a hand on the nation's checkbook, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski is reaping a political reward from her new assignment as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee: a significant increase in campaign cash. The Maryland Democrat, who...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Political Fundraising, Politics
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Duke Energy writes off $10-million loan for Democratic convention
WASHINGTON — Duke Energy has already written off a $10-million line of credit the company guaranteed to help produce September’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., boosting the role of corporate funds in putting on the event....
Tags: Charlotte, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Elections, Bank of America Corp., Economy, Business and Finance
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Customers are 'dumb money' for utilities
If you're a Progress Energy customer and you've looked yourself in the mirror lately, you're looking at "dumb money." Those aren't my words. That's how an energy policy wonk described customers who get saddled with financial risk when utilities take...
Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Progress Energy Incorporated, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Nuclear Power
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Take Legislature, elections out of PSC process
We're supposed to believe that Florida's system for selecting the people who set our utility rates is fair and free of political meddling. That's a bigger fake-out than Manti Te'o's girlfriend. The Legislature controls the selection of Public...
Tags: Manti Te'o, FPL Group, Government, Progress Energy Incorporated, Regional Authority
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After years of research, hog-waste disposal still reeks
YADKINVILLE, N.C. - Google, of all companies, last year got into the business of hog poop. It joined a project started by Duke University, Duke Energy and a Yadkin County farmer to pull the potent greenhouse gas methane from swine waste and use it to...Tags: Smithfield, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Issues, Duke University, Google Inc.
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