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EPA Deals Blow to Alaska Mine Project

A proposed mine near Alaska’s coast that’s garnered Capitol Hill attention would harm a habitat that houses nearly half the world’s sockeye salmon, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday. The EPA’s revised draft assessment of the Pebble Mine project’s...

Hostess Twinkies Will be Back Without the Union!

Hostess Brands LLC says it will reopen its eastern Kansas bakery this summer, with the hiring of an initial 250 people already underway. “We expect to be making and selling in July,” Michael Cramer, executive vice president of Hostess Brands told NBC News on Thursday....