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By: Erich Pica On Feb. 16, while President Obama was in Maryland announcing an $8.3 billion taxpayer-backed loan guarantee for Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, inspectors at the Vermont Yankee reactor were finding dangerously high levels of tritium, a radioactive cancer-causing chemical, in the groundwater near the plant. The next week, [...]
QUINCY,MA— A disagreement between the housing authority and the city’s building and fire departments is holding up a $2.5 million federally funded heating upgrade for Quincy public housing. The housing authority plans to replace hundreds of old steam radiators with gas-powered direct vent wall furnaces, similar to ones found in hotel rooms. The wall heating systems are made [...]
Sounding a familiar clean-energy theme, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced details of a proposed energy rebate program he hopes will spur demand for insulation and water heaters – and jobs for hurting Americans. Obama said the administration’s “HOMESTAR” program would reward people who buy energy-saving equipment with an on-the-spot rebate of $1,000 or more. He [...]
The California Assembly Bill 1953 (AB-1953) mandates that starting on January 1, 2010, all faucets and plumbing fittings sold in California MUST be lead free. The actual language used in the Bill is: “No person shall introduce into commerce any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting, or fixture intended to convey or dispense water for human consumption through [...]
Just a quick reminder, there is hope even though the newspapers and TV don’t talk about it much, there is community even though the Internet gets bigger every day, and there are a lot of people out there who are working really hard to bring change. Thank you all for your support through the last year, and we [...]
Promised I’d follow up with info about “free” estimates, so this is my take on “free” after over 45 years in this industry. Originally, even as late as the 1960’s, the plumbing union held sway. They trained and dispatched plumbers to all shops, so there was a pretty even base of talented plumbers no matter whose business you called [...]