With COVID-19 cases surging, at least one Lehigh Valley college says it anticipates requiring the booster for the spring semester, while others are weighing options.
Box Elder News Journal
California dreamin’?
As Promontory landfill again seeks out-of-state waste, connections to California business charged in radioactive waste scandal emerge
Tetra Tech EC is owned by Tetra Tech, the same company that designed Utah’s Promontory Point landfill. One of the Tetra Tech Vice Presidents, Jon Angin also was, for a time, the CEO for Allos Environmental, the parent company of Promontory Point Resources. When Allos Environmental, the Utah-based parent company of Promontory Point Resources, filed its new Class V application with Utah regulators in the fall of 2020 they included an old proof of ownership document from 2017 showing Angin as the signatory of another company, PPR Manager, that manages Allos Environmental Group.
Wind farms and massive arrays of solar panels are cropping up across public and private landscapes both in the United States and abroad as users increasingly turn to “green energy” as their preferred flavor of electricity.
President Joe Biden, in fact, has directed the Interior Department to identify suitable places to host 20 gigawatts of new energy from sun, wind or geothermal resources by 2024 as part of a sweeping effort to move away from a carbon-based economy and electrical grid.
But how green is green?
Although countries are feverishly looking to install wind and solar farms to wean themselves off carbon-based, or so-called “dirty” energy, few countries, operators and the industry itself have yet to fully tackle the long-term consequences of how to dispose of these systems, which have their own environmental hazards like toxic metals, oil, fiberglass and other material.
Erie Times-News
I was talking to one of my stepmother s friends recently, and she mentioned that her dog had been diagnosed with a heart murmur. You should take him to a veterinary cardiologist, I said. I didn t know they had cardiologists for dogs, she replied. They have every kind of specialist for pets that they do for people, I told her. I should know. Over the years, my seven dogs, past and present, have been to a number of them.
Veterinarians with a string of letters behind their name and DVM or VMD title are board-certified. They ve put in long hours and years of study to earn the designation of diplomate and membership in the specialty organization, after passing tough certification exams (boards). For instance, an internal medicine specialist s designation is DACVIM, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. If you were to see the letters DECVIM, it means the veterinarian was certified through a European internal medicine organization.