The Oglala Sioux Tribe (“Petitioner”) filed a December 24th Petition for Review (“Petition”) challenging the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) issuance of an underground injection control (“UIC”) Class III area permit and Class V area permit for the Powertech (USA) Inc. (“Powertech”) Dewey-Burdock Uranium In-Situ Recovery Project (“Project”).
The Project is located in Custer and Fall River Counties, South Dakota.
The federal Safe Drinking Water Act UIC program regulates six classes of injection wells. Each well class is based on the type and depth of the injection activity. Also addressed is the potential for the injection activity to result in endangerment of an underground source of drinking water. Note that:
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. As designed by Gordon Bunshaft, a rectangular pool in the garden echoes a window and balcony on the 1974 museum s façade. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Facing challenges from a federal planning authority and advocacy groups, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC is under pressure to revamp or justify elements of a significant redesign of its sunken sculpture garden.
The original Japanese Zen-inflected garden, which spans 1.5 acres next to the National Mall, was completed in 1974 by the architect Gordon Bunshaft as a complement to the museum’s distinctive Modernist drum-shaped concrete and granite building. The garden’s Brutalist gravel walkways and lack of shade made it inhospitable to visitors during Washington’s hot summers, however, prompting the Hirshhorn to enlist the landscape architect Lester Collins three years later to add trees, plant beds and other vegetatio
BLM Colorado names new district managers after district boundaries realignment
Northwest Colorado District to be led by Elijah Waters and Upper Colorado River District to be led by Greg Larson
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – District managers have been hired for the Upper Colorado River and Northwest districts after a successful realignment of BLM Colorado’s district and fire unit boundaries to improve safety and efficiency.
Elijah Waters has been selected as the new district manager for the Northwest Colorado District and Greg Larson named as the district manager for the new Upper Colorado River District. Both report for duty on January 17. Waters will be stationed in Craig and Larson will be stationed in Grand Junction.
At the heart of the ongoing debate on the potential demolition of TSC and Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka is an old philosophical dilemma how to progress while retaining some loyalty to history, a key concern of many 20th century philosophers, such as Paul Ricoeur. The relationship between progress and history could easily be reduced to one of hostility. If progress or modernisation is seen as a one-directional march towards an improved state of life, things that presumably represent history may be considered impediments to it and, therefore, their removal is justified in the name of progress. What is denied in this falsely simplified equation is the possibility of a symbiotic relationship between progress and history.
2 gravestones with swastikas removed from veterans cemetery in Texas
A flag waves in a sea of headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no public services will be held and the tradition of placing flags at each headstone has been canceled. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
by: Harmeet Kaur and Amanda Jackson, CNN
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Dec 26, 2020 / 08:22 PM EST
(CNN) Two headstones inscribed with Nazi swastikas that mark the graves of German prisoners of war have been removed from a veteran’s cemetery in Texas.
The headstones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio feature an iron cross with a swastika at its center, along with an inscription in German that reads: “He died far from his home for the Leader (Führer), people and fatherland.” The headstones mark the graves of Pvt. Georg Forst and Pvt. Alfred P. Kafka, two POWs who died in Texas in 1943.