Fight on Imported Trash Renewed: Plan Includes Huge Fee Increases
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By Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 1--LANSING -- Michigan House Democrats kicked off a renewed effort Wednesday to block other states and Canada from using Michigan landfills, touting huge waste fee increases and other measures as a way to stop garbage at the border.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 14--Fo r 1 1 c i t i e s i n S a n Bernardino County, the prospect of paying a surcharge for a chemical that did not originate in their areas just doesn't seem right.
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By Erica Meltzer, Arizona Daily Star  Two area environmental groups have appealed a county decision to renew Brush Ceramic Products' air-quality permit.
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Controversial plan could force file swappers to face criminal charges.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 20--SUFFOLK -- Two years ago, SPSA celebrated the opening of a garbage transfer station in Suffolk, a big building that resembles an airplane hangar and cost more than $4 million to develop.
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Ever-changing lists of prohibited airplane carry-on items make the Registered Traveler program sound great, but government fees could price it out of existence.
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For the third time in 20 months, Bank of America Corp. has increased the fees it charges customers who overdraw accounts or bounce checks.
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Â· Increase to fund consular service, says Foreign Office Â· Bill is underwriting cost of ID cards, say opponents
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City officials are considering charging grocery stores 17 cents each for grocery bags to discourage use of plastic sacks.
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Migrants could be charged higher visas fees to fund public services in a reported shake-up of citizenship.
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TORONTO (CP) - Ontario residents will likely have to pay more for their televisions, computers and electronic gadgets under a recycling plan now under development.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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Problem of abandoned or storm-wrecked single-wides pushes states toward controversial fee on new units.
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By Tracy Jordan, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 23--Easton received bids from three garbage haulers Friday that signal a potentially significant increase for residential customers, who already pay close to the top trash collection rates in the region.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 17--PALMETTO -- Property owners will pay double what they pay now for the city to keep their neighborhood from flooding, if the city commission adopts a new fee schedule at a meeting Monday.
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A maneuver called 'splash and dash' cost US taxpayers perhaps $30 million last year, but the charges are rising fast.
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Immigrants applying to become citizens or permanent residents of the United States may have to pay higher application fees, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.