A preliminary step already has happened with the recent purchase of 1,400 acres adjacent to the 880 acres E3 already owns southeast of Mead. The manure passes through two 4-million gallon anaerobic digesters, which results in enough energy to operate virtually the entire ethanol plant. World's first closed-loop ethanol plant begins production; expansion in Nebraska and elsewhere already in progress. The compost is spread as fertilizer on nearby cornfields or sold elsewhere. The system can...

For those pest control operators expressing difficulty in obtaining insurance, the Registrar said that the PCA provided assistance in getting some type of coverage. Liability insurance has become necessary as specific violations are outlined under the Pesticides (Amendment) Regulation 2004 and the PCA along with affected persons are empowered to expedite the sanctions through the judicial process. In fact, a pest control operator can no longer re-register if his or her company does not...

That agreement led to restrictions on tobacco marketing and the creation of the foundation, which the tobacco companies fund through their payments to the states. In one radio ad, a person identifying himself as a dog walker phones Lorillard and tells the operator he wants to sell the company dog urine because it is full of urea, "one of the chemicals you guys put into cigarettes. The agreement stated that the foundation could not vilify or personally attack tobacco companies or...

The rest comes from the large coal-fired Southwest Power Station plant, which came online in the mid-1970s, and from two small purchased-power contracts. Springfield leaders decided the city shouldn't place its economic future in the hands of an outside company, so they went to voters seeking funds to build a power plant that would be owned by the citizens. At that time, President Jimmy Carter urged utilities to begin switching to coal because the country had an estimated 250-year supply...

A month before his ninth birthday, the well-known Langley City pooch snacked on some Warfarin, a deadly rat poison someone left at the base of a City tree. A mother wrote to The Times last week to warn people that someone had sprayed pesticides on public grass beside a sidewalk in the 19800 block of 64 Avenue. He told her hes going to ask staff if there are other communities that have bylaws regarding the control of rodenticides and other pest controls products. She had let her son walk...