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Bettendorf company pays $50K for oil leak

By | 09.26.11 | 4:58 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Sivyer Steel Corporation of Bettendorf has agreed to pay a $54,786 penalty and clean up residual used oil that may have leaked from its storage tanks as part of settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Calculating the Impact of the Oil Spill on Wildlife

By | 10.21.10 | 5:06 pm

On a conference call today on the Obama administration’s efforts to determine the extent of natural resources damages from the oil spill, an Interior Department official gave reporters a sense of the impact of the spill on wildlife.

Of the 8,000 oiled birds found by the government in the aftermath More…

National Security and Old-Fashioned Natural Resources

By | 06.11.09 | 2:38 pm

Here’s Sharon Burke, vice president of Center for a New American Security, who just got effusive praise from former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), and who’s presenting a panel on those old atavistic security questions about natural resources. The idea of climate change, for instance, as a national security issue has More…