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Louisiana could have its own, less stringent plan for implementing the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits on carbon dioxide emissions, under a proposal that got the approval Tuesday of the state Senate Environmental Quality Committee. Senate...

Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 360 Executive Board members are (in front, from left) Dan Harrison, Business Manager Don DeGonia, President Nick Dodson (in back, from left) Bob Barger, Pat DeGonia and Prescott Whitaker. Vice President Tommy Kowalski...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #179, the nomination of Anthony Renard Foxx, of North Carolina, to be Secretary of Transportation; Confirmed: 100-0 2)      Committee-reported...

HARTFORD, Ill. (AP) — Governmental efforts to clean up the southwestern Illinois site of a former copper smelter are moving ahead with the expected removal of the property’s toxic slag. The (Alton) Telegraph reports the U.S. Environmental...

URBANA, Ill. – The University of Illinois Plant Clinic has been diagnosing plant problems since 1976, but the array of services provided has grown and become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. Two years ago, the Plant Clinic began using molecular...