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Donald Trump’s first budget recommendations help pay for a bigger military with lower expenditures for other promised programs. His recommendations for infrastructure disappointed local officials across the nation, and his plan to revive Nevada’s Yucca Mountain also received limited funds. Trump’s plan calls for $1.5 trillion in infrastructure projects, with just $200 billion supplied by the federal government. It was widely assumed, including in conservative circles, that the program would force local governments to raise taxes. In the Unification Church publication Washington Times, economist Peter Morici wrote, President Trump’s infrastructure plan puts a heavy burden on the states and will...

Pro-lifers have employed many strategies to drive abortion clinics out of business, and have had tremendous success within the past few years. One thing that pro-life activists haven’t tried as frequently is regulating what abortion clinics do with the bodies of the babies they abort. Monica Migliorino Miller, in her book Abandoned, talks about how she and fellow activists started a crusade against a pet cemetery that was incinerating the bodies of aborted babies along with those of cats and dogs. Her efforts shone a spotlight on the grisly business of abortion and led to the end of the practice...

Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry officials and some environmental scientists, who warn that the bulbs’ poisonous innards pose a bigger threat to health and the environment than previously thought.

A new patented Tornado Generator(TM) accelerates compressed air to supersonic speeds in a closed cyclonic chamber where the air is powerful enough to almost instantly grind, flash desiccate and atomize solid and liquid wastes and other materials into micron sized powders. The Tornado Generator(TM) has no internal moving parts and is powered by compressed air. Needing only an appropriately sized generator and compressor, processing with the Tornado Generator(TM) is very robust and is capable of field operation. The technology can cost-effectively and rapidly process a very broad array of wastes including agricultural wastes, septic wastes, municipal solid wastes, and construction...

Millions of flies invade Sa Kaew villageSA KAEW, June 29 (TNA) – A plague of millions of flies has descended on a village in Thailand's eastern province of Sa Kaew, leading to fears of a public health problem. According to villagers in Nong Pa Mak, in Sa Kaew’s Wattana Nakhon district, the flies have invaded the entire village of 80 households. TNA reporters who visited the village yesterday were greeted by the sight of windows and doors shut fast against the invasion, while trees and buildings were black with the insects. A village resident, Mrs. Chansawang Srikul, told reporters that...

Sunday, July 6, 2003 Tiny N.M. Town Welcomes Possible Nuke Dump By Rene Romo Journal Southern Bureau     EUNICE — A Texas firm wants to build a low-level radioactive waste dump practically in the back yard of this oil patch town, and while environmentalists vow to fight the project, locals here are tickled about it.     ''Anything that would bring any kind of industry into this part of the country, whether in Texas or in New Mexico, would be welcome, because we're so dependent on oil,'' said Eunice City Councilman Bill Robinson.     The landfill's opening, if it does come...

Virginia gov. proposes plan to add solid waste fee NEW YORK - Virginia Gov. Mark Warner yesterday said he will amend a state Senate solid waste bill to charge trash facility operators a new $5 per ton fee on solid waste deposited in Virginia, the No. 2 importer of out-of-state trash in the nation. The move is expected to add $76 million to state coffers that would be used for open space preservation, water quality improvement, recycling, solid waste management, and cleanup and redevelopment of brownfields and other abandoned sites. The governor's plan, known as the Commonwealth Conservation Initiative,...

<p>Tanker trucks loaded with tons of neutralized VX nerve gas could soon be pulling up to an incinerator in Sauget under a plan being developed by the Army.</p> <p>The government is looking at Sauget and at least three other sites to get rid of 1,269 tons of the lethal nerve gas because it fears that the current home of the gas -- a chemical weapons depot in Newport, Ind. -- could be a target for terrorists.</p>