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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Authorities need to more strongly warn residents that muck left from a major coal-ash spill in eastern Tennessee could pose health risks, a southern environmental group said Saturday.The Port of Tacoma recently selected Ron Stuart as Environmental Project Manager-Air Quality.The borough was awarded $500,000 by the state Urban Enterprise Zone Authority to invest in its planned Health and Wellness Center.Waxman, Pelosi and Boxer are in key positions to bring state's style of regulation to national level. The San Juan County Health and Community Services Department budget took a bigger percentage of dollar budget cuts than any other department. Its overall 2009 budget is $189,211 smaller than its 2008 budget ? a 14 percent reduction. Authorities need to more strongly warn residents that muck left from a coal-ash spill in East Tennessee could pose health risks, a Southern environmental group said today. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said Friday that the mixture of coal fly ash and water coating a neighborhood near the Kingston Fossil Plant didn't pose an immediate risk to residents unless they ... A new public health director of Skokie is scheduled to be announced after the new year after Lowell Huckleberry, who held the job for more than 26 years, retired in September. Hallmark Health System has announced that it is fully prepared for the launch of the state?s new ?No Diversion? policy, which states no hospital emergency room will be able to divert incoming ambulances to other hospitals. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has stopped issuing fines against other state agencies in Indiana that violate their environmental permits.Environmental activists say Indiana's environmental agency is making a big departure from the state's earlier approach to handling serious environmental violations.Yahoo! News Search Results for Environmental Health
