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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire regulators said Thursday an electric utility acted appropriately when it shut off power to a woman who didn't pay her power bill and died after an oxygen machine she needed stopped working. The state Public Utilities Commission reviewed National Grid's disconnection of service to Kay Phaneuf, 53, of Salem. She died on June 24, three days after her husband found her unconscious, about an hour after power was cut. Police said the bill wasn't paid. Her account had a medical protection notice intended to prevent such a shutoff in the past, but it had...

The break is at Turkey Creek. The 48 inch pipe is over the marsh and no ones knows how it happened. This comes at the time when we have The Cooper River Bridge Run, the Azalea Festival, the Cajun Festival, and a few other high profile events happening.

"The amount of water flowing into the Triangle's reservoirs is at or near historic lows. And the forecast: below-normal rainfall through June." "So the drought in most of the Triangle and much of central North Carolina is now "severe" instead of moderate, state and federal officials said Thursday. Gov. Mike Easley asked residents to conserve water." "Less than 5 inches of rain has been measured at Raleigh-Durham International Airport since January. Normal rainfall would total 11.4 inches by now." "The flow of streams into Falls Lake is 9 percent of normal for this month. If water customers start turning on...

New York City's water supply could be the target of contamination if a water system map made its way into the wrong hands, an environmentalist said. The threat has arisen since someone broke into a vehicle belonging to a Department of Environmental Protection maintenance supervisor and stole an agency laptop containing a map of the water system. If the map was detailed enough,"there could be the opportunity to pose a threat," the executive director for the Center for Environmental Information, Cindy Stachowski, said. Even without a map, Ms. Stachowski added, someone pouring biological, chemical, or radiological contaminants into a fresh...

President Bush doesn't talk about new-source review very often. In fact, he has mentioned it in a speech to the public only once, in remarks he delivered on Sept. 15, 2003, to a cheering crowd of power-plant workers and executives in Monroe, Mich., about 35 miles south of Detroit. It was an ideal audience for his chosen subject. New-source review, or N.S.R., involves an obscure and complex set of environmental rules and regulations that most Americans have never heard of, but to people who work in the power industry, few subjects are more crucial. Advertisement The Monroe plant, which is...

EPA Proposes Drinking Water Rules to Reduce Illness, Cancer Risks; Estimated Benefits Top $2 Billion Annually 7/11/03 4:10:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: John Millett, 202-564-7842 WASHINGTON, July 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- To further reduce the risk of illness from microbes and decrease cancer risks from chemicals that form during drinking water treatment, EPA is proposing rules that would require drinking water systems to monitor for and increase protection against Cryptosporidium while expanding the monitoring and control of disinfection byproducts. Building upon rules now in effect, the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2) and the...