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KY3 News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... own influence and interests to protect. Hartley's Cassidy & Associates has represented Eagle-Picher Technologies in Joplin between 2004 and 2009. Federal lobbyist disclosure reports show that Eagle-Picher has paid Cassidy between $70,000 and $120,000 a quarter for work during that time period. During this past legislative session, Nodler landed $25 million dollars for the company....
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KY3 News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
EXPLAINS EAGLEPICHER FUNDING & HITS GOODMAN "That line is Goodman propaganda . . ." Joplin State Senator Gary Nodler said there was never a specific appropriation for EaglePicher this past legislative session and accused his 7th District opponent Sen. Jack Goodman of opposing job creation when he voted against the bill containing funds for the company. "There was no appropriation...
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TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... that stood in the way of this deal, anyway. The EPA has already bought out the neighboring town of Picher, Okla., stripping Treece of access to jobs, shopping, recreation and services, including fire protection and cable TV…Treece, separated from Picher by only the state line, missed out on that buyout because Kansas and Oklahoma are in different EPA administrative regions....
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alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... sunlight to make gasoline, and a new way to harvest algae for mass production of biofuels. Eagle Picher Technologies was awarded $7.2 million for the development of a high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta battery for grid scale power storage. For its all liquid metal grid-scale battery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology was awarded $6.9 million. If a grid is going to be successful...
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... ENERGY STORAGE Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. (DOE grant: $7,200,000) Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy...
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Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... makes it impossible to sell a house. The EPA has already bought out the neighboring town of Picher, Oklahoma, stripping Treece of quick access to jobs, shopping, recreation and services, including fire protection and cable TV. Both cities were once prosperous mining communities but the ore ran out and the mines were abandoned by the early 1970s. Of 16 children tested for lead levels in Treece,...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... makes it impossible to sell a house. The EPA has already bought out the neighboring town of Picher, Oklahoma, stripping Treece of quick access to jobs, shopping, recreation and services, including fire protection and cable TV. Both cities were once prosperous mining communities but the ore ran out and the mines were abandoned by the early 1970s. Of 16 children tested for lead levels in Treece,...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... not months.”Until 1970, haphazard lead and zinc mining contaminated land in and around Treece. Picher, Okla., a town adjacent to Treece, was bought out by the government because of cave-ins and contamination. In 1997, hazardous lead levels were found in one in four Picher children.Since Picher’s buyout, Treece residents have called for the government to do the same for them....
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... not months.”Until 1970, haphazard lead and zinc mining contaminated land in and around Treece. Picher, Okla., a town adjacent to Treece, was bought out by the government because of cave-ins and contamination. In 1997, hazardous lead levels were found in one in four Picher children.Since Picher’s buyout, Treece residents have called for the government to do the same for them....
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The Turner Report (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
... apiece from Neosho banker Rudy Farber and Empire District Electric Company, $5,000 from Eagle Picher, $2,500 from housewife Sara Newman of Joplin, and $1,500 apiece from Health PAC, Jefferson City; and K & S Wire, Neosho. James Woestman, Carthage, contributed the remaining $1,000. The committee spent $25,000 during the quarter, with every cent going to Speaker of the House Ron Richard,...
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ultimate-resumes (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
... to the senior leadership ranks. Volunteer, inside or outside of your organization Helen Davis Picher, director of evaluation and research at the William Penn Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region, said one of the factors that helped her advance, after coming on board in 1983 as a program associate, was her willingness to pitch...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
A tightening pinchFewer firefighters, library cutbacks, even street lights going dark. The big picture may be brightening, but locally, it could get worse. Librarian Jennifer Hinderer leads a game at the Tewksbury Public Library while Michelle Picher and daughters Emily, 3, and Rachel, 6, participate. (Photos By Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe) By Globe Staff / October 4, 2009 E-mail this...
