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The Unassuming Engineer Who Exposed Volkswagen

By: David Morgan, Source MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Daniel Carder, an unassuming 45-year-old engineer with gray hair and blue jeans, appears an unlikely type to take down one of the world’s most powerful companies. But he and his small research team at West Virginia University may have done exactly that, with a

The Dark Power of Fraternities: A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.

The Dark Power of Fraternities One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether

Plantation Pipe Line Will Pay Penalty for Fuel Spills in Va., N.C., GA.

Release Date: 11/05/2008 Contact Information: DOJ -Andrew Ames (202) 514-2007 EPA- Roy Seneca (215) 814-5567 WASHINGTON-Plantation Pipe Line Company, Alpharetta, Ga., has agreed to pay a civil penalty and implement safeguards in order to resolve a Clean Water Act lawsuit over fuel pipeline spills in three states, the Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and

Kinder Morgan Receives Corrective Action Order Re: Gulf Coast Mainline pipeline

Please read the following Corrective Action Order to Dwayne Burton, VP of Operations and Engineering, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Kinder Morgan, Inc. from James Reynolds, Pipeline Compliance Registry Office of Pipeline Safety. It requires you to take certain corrective actions with respect to your Gulf Coast Mainline natural gas pipeline system.  

Landowners form a pipeline rebellion in the Deep South

Landowners in Georgia are upset by a Texas company’s plan to build a petroleum pipeline through the state When the letter arrived from a Texas pipeline company asking permission to enter his land, Alan Zipperer refused to allow surveyors onto his property. But they came anyway, he said, traipsing through his corn fields and pine

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