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	<title>BEAT&#039;s Blog &#187; Wetlands</title>
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		<title>Corporate Influence In Government: An Environmental Issue (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/01/18/corporate-influence-in-government-an-environmental-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE/PCBs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past fall, the Occupy Wall Street group made a lot of headlines pointing out that one percent of this country&#8217;s population controls a very disproportionate share of the wealth.  Tied in to this is the fact that recent federal court rulings have taken almost all restraints off corporations who want to make contributions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEAT Partners To Get Drugs Off The Streets And Out Of Our Wetlands.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/02/beat-partners-to-get-drugs-off-the-streets-and-out-of-our-wetlands/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/02/beat-partners-to-get-drugs-off-the-streets-and-out-of-our-wetlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals on the whole are a wonderful thing.  So many diseases and disorders that plagued earlier generations can be prevented or made less harmful and less uncomfortable by products of the drug industry.  This is because pharmaceuticals are designed to change our physiology.  They are designed to make changes to the way our bodies work.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumping snow in the river &#8211; again.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/14/dumping-snow-in-housatonic/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/14/dumping-snow-in-housatonic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The February 2 issue of our newsletter, The BEAT News, carried the following story. Busted for dumping snow in Merrimack River Tuesday February 1, 2011 LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) &#8212; An investigation has been launched after surveillance video caught a contractor allegedly dumping snow plowed from a parking lot into the Merrimack River in Lawrence. Mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Esse quam videri</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/02/esse-quam-videri/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/02/esse-quam-videri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE/PCBs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been trying to understand the motivation of those people in our community who are arguing against a cleanup of the Housatonic River and are arguing instead that GE has the correct perspective in saying that the river should be left to heal itself. I understand GE&#8217;s motivation. Any cleanup will cost them money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumping On The River</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/12/01/dumping-on-the-river/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/12/01/dumping-on-the-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahconah Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the story of the &#8220;green goo&#8221; going into the Housatonic River (1,2). iBerkshires has an update on their webpage today. The City of Pittsfield has been fined $6,325 by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for sending 4,700 gallons of a solution used to clean boilers at Pittsfield High School into a floor drain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to make a difference.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/11/17/trying-to-make-a-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/11/17/trying-to-make-a-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Streams can be classified as either perennial or intermittent. Perennial streams flow continually all year (more or less), and intermittent streams often cease to flow in periods of low water or seasonally in summer. Intermittent streams are not afforded the same level of protection as perennial streams under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, so occasionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Piaget Was Wrong.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/11/10/jean-piaget-was-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/11/10/jean-piaget-was-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The developmental psychologist Jean Piaget theorized that infants develop the idea of object permanence between 8 and 12 months of age. If a ball rolls under a sofa, these children are now able to understand that it didn&#8217;t cease to exist, they just could no longer see it. At the November 4 meeting of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield: Above the Law</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/27/pittsfield-above-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/27/pittsfield-above-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahconah Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about a Pittsfield official telling the City Council that the City of Pittsfield had &#8220;elected&#8221; not to comply with state-mandated environmental monitoring regulations in an effort to save money.  In case you think this is an isolated incident, let me tell you about a few things that happened over the course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love baseball too, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/temp-title/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/temp-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deming Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flooding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Pittsfield Gazette story highlighted the controversy surrounding flooding in the area around Deming Park in Pittsfield. Local residents are angry over mistakes made by the Pittsfield Parks Commission and the Pittsfield Conservation Commission. A second, seemingly unrelated story has me concerned. According to the Gazette, &#8220;Ontario Street homeowners led by Dan Miraglia have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield:  We don&#8217;t make the floods; we make them worse.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/29/pittsfield-we-dont-make-the-floods-we-make-them-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/29/pittsfield-we-dont-make-the-floods-we-make-them-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pittsfield has suffered from an unusual amount of flooding over the course of the past year. Of course nobody is blaming the City for the recent heavy rainfall. But the kind of extreme storms we have been experiencing lately may become more common in the future. Global climate-change models have been saying for years now [...]]]></description>
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