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The Pa. Department of Environmental Protection was able to contain and cleanup an oil spill from a steel mill in Lower ...

A Trump-decreed “national energy emergency” suggests drillers should receive special waivers from Clean Water Act regulations ...

In a rainy season, it's important to understand your flood risk. For insurance purposes, what is a flood? What proactive steps can be taken before ...

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Window treatments can make or break the overall look of a room, so it's important to get them right. Like any decor, curtain trends come and go, so if you have any of these once-popular window ...

A Maine coon cat named Mittens became an accidental jetsetter this month when her cage was overlooked in a plane cargo hold and she made three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia ...

Those amendments consider the requirement of a 2-foot freeboard, known as the regulatory flood protection elevation ... according to data released by FEMA, covering over $345 million worth ...

A flood of Canadian oil is heading south to the US to beat President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs. Enbridge Inc.’s Mainline, the largest oil export pipeline from Canada to the US ...

The City of Charlottetown is re-opening its flood protection rebate program to help resident keep their homes safe. Coun. Trevor MacKinnon, chair of the environment and sustainability committee, said ...

Attempts to put some kind of flood protection in place date back decades with consultants appointed to look at the situation in the mid-1980s. A council-backed scheme was eventually approved in ...