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Air Pollution - Diesel
5:46 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Local tugboats to run cleaner with help of federal grant

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Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
The tugboat MSY Dorothy will get cleaner-burning engines this summer, paid for in part by a grant to JB Marine Service, Inc., from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks uses an acetylene torch to help destroy an old tugboat engine, with the help of John Parrentt of JB Marine Service, Inc.
Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks (left) and JB Marine Service, Inc., CFO David Heyl talk in the engine room of the tugboat Helen Virginia. In the foreground is one of the new, lower-emission engines.
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Some Mississippi River tugboats will be getting an upgrade thanks to a federal grant aimed at reducing air pollution.

The more than $300,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency will go toward new, cleaner-burning diesel engines for the tugboats.

One of those boats was on view this morning at JB Marine Service, Inc., the barge cleaning and repair company that received the EPA grant.

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Radioactive shipping
10:05 am
Tue April 24, 2012

Bill would ease rules on radioactive shipments through Mo.

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An interior view of the dome at the Missouri Capitol.
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Legislation before the Missouri House would make it easier and cheaper for a Canadian company to ship radioactive material through the state.

If the bill becomes law, Ontario-based Nordion Inc. would not have to pay fees or have shipments of colbat-60 undergo mandatory inspections in Missouri. The company sells colbat-60 for use sterilizing medical devices.

The Kansas City Star reports the amendment was written by a trade group for Nordion.

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