With digging beneath continuing unabated, the hollowing up of base hillock in the name of Mining of insufficient Magnesite by J&K Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (J&KMDC) has posed a serious threat to the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi which is just 2.9 kms away and upon the mining pit, all this when the amount of […]
BJP criticizs present government for its wrong policies
Jammu, November 10 (Scoop News) – On the penultimate day of the “Jan Jargan Yatras”, one led by BJP State president Shamsher Singh Manhas and the other led by National Executive Member Dr. Nirmal Singh intersected at Udhampur after covering different parts of the state and the yatra is going to culmiate on […]
With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces an Onslaught of Wastewater
The McKeesport Sewage Treatment Plant, one of nine plants on the Monongahela River that has treated wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling operations. (Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica) Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy […]
States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund
This story was co-published [1] with USA Today and will appear in that newspaper on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Hundreds line up outside a Chase Bank in Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y., to take advantage of the free funds aimed at helping underprivileged children. Every child between 3 and 17 was eligible for $200. (John […]
‘Death on the Job’ Report: More Workers Killed, Fewer Employer Penalties
by Mike Hall More workers are being killed on the job, but employers who are found to have violated federal safety laws in fatality cases are paying as little as $750 in penalties for each death, according to the latest edition of the AFL-CIO’s annual report Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect. Released […]