Power Companies Refute Findings of Widespread Coal Plant Groundwater Contamination

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:31:43 +0000

An estimated 91% of U.S. coal power plants that submitted groundwater monitoring data as required by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2015 Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) rule have unsafe levels of one or more contaminants, a collaborative analysis of the monitoring data by several environmental groups suggests.  The March 4 report is significant because power […]

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Bayan Muna to SSS: Bare data on uncollected premiums

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 04:14:44 +0000

MANILA, Philippines —  The Social Security System (SSS) should be more transparent instead of denying its P437 billion uncollected premiums and penalties since 2010 as based on “old” findings, Bayan Muna Chairman and Makabayan senatorial bet Neri Colmenares and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate maintained on Friday. Colmenares and Zarate earlier assailed SSS to improve […]

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Locsin says DFA can’t assure ‘safety’ of ‘some’ passport data

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:15:49 +0000

DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday said the agency cannot assure the “safety and security” of “some data” in Filipinos’ passports.

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Hontiveros seeks probe on passport data mess

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:41:17 +0000

Hontiveros seeks probe on passport data mess

Senator Risa Hontiveros has called for an inquiry into the alleged data breach caused by a previous contractor, producing passports for DFA.

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5 years on, US government still counting Snowden leak costs

5 years on, US government still counting Snowden leak costs

National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden blew the lid off United States government surveillance methods five years ago but intelligence chiefs complained that revelations from the trove of classified documents he disclosed were still trickling out.

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