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How a polluter gets stimulus money — and avoids environmental review
by Kate Golden November 29th, 2010 July 18th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch
The plant, seen from a stream bank: In 2008, residents noticed a chunky, murky yellow liquid coming from Didion's wastewater pipe into this stream, and worried what effect it might have when it got to Tarrant Lake, downstream. Since then, Didion has capped the pipe. Kate Golden / Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
AUDIO SLIDESHOW
Cambria residents react
Hear neighbors who oppose Didion Milling's grant describing what it's like to live nearby. (Click picture to open a new page.)
A collaborative investigation
Read about how Didion was one of thousands of companies were exempted from environmental review for stimulus projects in an investigation from the Center for Public Integrity, which used our reporting; a version of CPI's story also ran in the Nov. 29 Washington Post.
Last December, when Gov. Jim Doyle announced $14.5 million in federal stimulus funds for energy-efficiency projects involving nine companies, he called it "a tremendous opportunity to be one of the greenest manufacturing states in the country."
What Doyle did not mention was that ethanol producer Didion Milling Inc., which got the largest share at $5.6 million, is one of Wisconsin's most chronic air and water polluters — and a firm designated by the federal government as a "high priority violator."
Less than a month before Doyle's announcement, a federal judge ruled that Didion had violated the federal Clean Water Act many times in 2008 and 2009. Among the violations: the use of excessive amounts of chlorine and other chemicals, and the discharge of a murky yellow liquid with solids down a company wastewater pipe into a tributary of a fishing lake. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by residents who lived near the company's Cambria plant, about 45 miles northeast of Madison.
The company settled a state lawsuit in April by agreeing to pay $1.05 million for 23 air and water claims that stretched from 1999 to 2010 — a move that effectively ended three federal lawsuits filed by residents living near the plant.
Documents obtained by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism under open-records laws show officials evaluating Didion's application for the U.S. Energy Department stimulus grant didn't ask about — and Didion didn't disclose — details of its environmental compliance.
And once it won the grant, Didion's project was exempted from an analysis of its environmental impact — just like 99 percent of the $33 billion in stimulus projects funded by the Energy Department, according to a collaborative investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization based in Washington, D.C., and the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Doyle's office did not respond to e-mail and phone messages seeking response.
Didion's vice president of operations, Dale Drachenberg, declined to address questions about the company's environmental record or the process that led to the grant. Instead, he issued a statement touting the job-creation and clean-energy benefits of the stimulus-funded project.
On its website and in statements, Didion has cast itself as an eco-friendly company. It was one of 50 companies that in August won a state Department of Commerce's Wisconsin Profitable Sustainability Initiative grant to examine and reduce its waste streams. And in September, the company hosted a Green Energy Expo at the Cambria plant where people could learn about recycling, energy usage tips and the future of alternative fuels.
But to Karen Dettman, who lives across the street from Didion and has lived with its spills, smells, noise, traffic and murky discharges, the federal stimulus grant represents "green energy at any cost."
Environmental advocates in Wisconsin also believe federal and state regulators should have taken companies' environmental records into account before awarding stimulus grants and exempting most of the projects from environmental review.
"You'd think it would be a normal part of the check, whether they're in compliance with environmental laws. That's a phone call or two at the most," said George Meyer, a former state Department of Natural Resources secretary who is now executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
Consultants working for the state's Focus on Energy program acknowledged they recommended Didion's plant-expansion proposal for a grant without considering the company's past environmental problems.
Betsy Lawton, an attorney for Midwest Environmental Advocates, a nonprofit environmental law center in Madison that represented Cambria residents in the Clean Water Act lawsuit, said, "From my perspective, polluters shouldn't be rewarded with free money to expand their pollution."
"That money," Lawton said, "should be going to companies that comply with the law."
Niel Lawrence, senior attorney for a national environmental advocacy nonprofit group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, drew this analogy: "Go try to apply for a job without being asked 'Have you ever been arrested?' But DOE is willing to give out five and a half million bucks without asking the questions that any employer would ask of a modern employee."
Drachenberg issued a statement to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, saying the stimulus grant will allow Didion to use 25 percent less energy for every gallon of ethanol produced. The company plans to use the stimulus funding to hire 75 people this year during construction, and 10 full-time employees in the longer term.
"Since the day we started construction on our ethanol production facility, we've made innovation and conservation top priorities," Drachenberg said.
A panorama of Didion's Columbia County ethanol plant.
An unusually chronic polluter
Aside from the 2009 Clean Water Act lawsuit, a second group of residents sued Didion last year under the federal Clean Air Act for years of air violations that the state of Wisconsin had documented — but for which it had never punished the company.
Those and many other violations dated back to 1999. Among them: Didion built 15 grain silos, three mills and a grain dryer without applying for the required air pollution permit. The company exceeded emission limits and ran a grain dryer outside permitted times. And it falsely claimed on a permit application that it was complying with the law, according to court records.
Johnson Creek-based Didion Milling Inc., which owns the grain mills, is a family-owned company and the parent of Didion Ethanol LLC, the ethanol plant. The two plants are across the street from each other and joined by a tunnel, though the mill is in Cambria and the ethanol plant is in the town of Courtland. The companies, whose registered agent is John Didion, are jointly referred to as "Didion" in court documents.
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency database shows Didion has received 11 notices of violation in the past five years — among the most for any Wisconsin company listed. The notices signify that state regulators believe they have solid evidence the company has broken the law, and they are the first step toward punishing the company with a formal enforcement action.
"It's highly unusual for us to have a source that we've sent this many notices of violation to," said Tom Roushar, DNR air management program supervisor for the region. "Usually if we send one, the source corrects it, and we don't have to repeat it."
Cambria resident John Mueller has sued Didion twice in federal court for air pollution permit violations. Neither suit succeeded, but the state folded those violations into its $1.05 million settlement with the company this year. Kate Golden/WCIJ
In late 2009, while the governor was trumpeting the grant for Didion, the state Department of Justice was taking the company to task. Assistant Attorney General Steven Tinker alleged in a letter before the agency sued Didion that the company had racked up thousands of air permit violation-days, a measure of the number of days that each violation continued, though the total number was never counted in the Columbia County Circuit Court case that followed.
In March, the state sued Didion, and the two parties reached a settlement in April: The company would pay $1.05 million for 23 air and water claims from 1999 to 2010.
The settlement in state court effectively rendered the federal citizen lawsuits moot. According to Lawton, Didion got a deal: It could have been liable for $22 million if the citizens in the water lawsuit had prevailed.
Other violators have received funds nationwide
Examples of past environmental violators getting stimulus money have cropped up nationwide. Aerospace giant Boeing won a noncompetitive contract for $15.9 million to clean up a stream it had been fined $471,000 for polluting, according to California Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization.
LINK: Stimulus funds aiding companies fined for pollution, accused of fraud
And the nonprofit New England Center for Investigative Reporting found three construction contractors awarded stimulus funds in Massachusetts had failed to report their pollution-related fines.
LINK: Public works, hidden violations.
The lack of attention to companies' environmental records infuriates some residents of Cambria, a village of 792 people in south central Wisconsin.
"It's crazy not to consider their background and their history," said John Mueller, a Cambria resident who lives a half-mile from Didion's mills and co-founded Cambrians for Thoughtful Development.
The group sued the company twice for violations that were later included in the state's settlement. During his eight-year fight against the company, Mueller trudged through freezing rain at night to photograph the plume from Didion's grain dryer, later alleged by the state to be operating illegally.
"We know they're not trustworthy," he said.
Cambrians have become familiar with the sticky corn dust that settles on their windows and cars. Courtesy of John Mueller.
He described how Cambria residents have learned to distinguish the different particles from Didion's milling that settle on the village: the airy "redeye" from the corn cob, and the gooey "bees' wings" that stick to cars and windows.
Dettman, Didion's neighbor, described the plant's smell.
"People say sometimes beer, sometimes corn. To me it's nauseating, gives me a headache, so I think it's more than that," she said.
WATCH THE SLIDESHOW: Cambria residents describe life near Didion
But residents are divided over whether the plant is good for the community. At a county planning and zoning meeting earlier this year, Didion's expansion plans were approved unanimously.
Joelle DeBoer, who works for Didion but is not a spokeswoman for it, said her company has been a good neighbor by supporting local charities and providing local jobs. She wrote a letter supporting its expansion for the county meeting.
"I believe it's really going to help Cambria's community, just because we'll be bringing more jobs to the community," DeBoer said.
Didion never quizzed on violations
Records and interviews show that Focus on Energy, a state program that promotes energy conservation, didn't look at Didion's environmental compliance before recommending it for stimulus funding.
Officials at Focus on Energy, established by the Wisconsin Legislature to encourage renewable energy and energy efficiency, worked through a private contractor, CleanTech Partners of Middleton. Focus on Energy solicited applications from Wisconsin industries for federal energy efficiency stimulus grants. CleanTech picked nine, bundled them up and sent them off to DOE.
CleanTech got about 25 applications — from paper companies, a lawnmower engine manufacturer and others — and winnowed the field using American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and DOE criteria: whether the project would preserve or create domestic jobs, how the project would be managed, how much it would cost and the potential energy savings.
Didion proposed to install a host of new technologies at its Cambria plant that would produce more ethanol from every bushel of corn with less energy, thus allowing the company to expand production. The new technology would also extract a new product in the process, corn oil, to get more value out of the corn.
The Energy Department grant money, matched by Didion's utility, Alliant Energy, would help the project pay for itself in 3.9 years, according to Didion's application. It would save 11 million kilowatt-hours of energy — enough to power 828 homes for a year.
Past pollution never came up, said Thomas Reitter, a consultant for CleanTech who worked on the applications for Focus on Energy. The only environmental criterion he addressed was to make sure companies fully filled out DOE's boilerplate environmental questionnaire.
"It's DOE's evaluation," he said.
Environmental form is blank on environmental history
In fact, Didion did not answer a few of the questions.
The environmental questionnaire is designed to help DOE decide whether a project should trigger a detailed environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. Such reviews can take months or even years to complete.
The form asked questions including what permits would be required, how solid waste would be hauled and what emissions would result. But nothing in the 12-page form asks firms about their compliance history.
"Describe any issues that would generate public controversy regarding the project," the form says.
Didion checked "None."
"Summarize the significant impacts that would result from the proposed project," the last question on the form states, asking for details.
Didion left that one blank.
Background checks don't focus on pollution
DOE officials also do background checks on potential awardees, said Angela Harshman, the DOE contract specialist who approved Didion's award, in an e-mail response to questions about the grant.
DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory, which awarded the grant, declined to release the results of its backgrounding of Didion or any other company.
But a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism review of DOE's process and Didion's application provided no evidence that officials who approved the grant looked at the company's environmental record.
A typical check includes "financial capability," such as audits, assessments of a company's financial health and "environmental information via an environmental questionnaire," Harshman wrote.
The government's own oversight of stimulus funding emphasizes waste, fraud and abuse. Ed Pound, spokesman for the federal stimulus oversight board, said the board would be concerned about a company's past, for example, if it had a history of failing to complete contracts, rigging bids or misappropriating funds, or if it had been barred from doing business with the government.
Past environmental violations might raise a red flag, Pound said, "if they involved potential criminal activity."
That wouldn't include Didion's $1.05 million payment to settle its violations. It was a civil matter.
Exemptions from environmental review are standard
Didion asked for and got a categorical exemption from federal NEPA review, which means the project was found legally to have no "significant effect on the human environment." A checked box on an application form indicated the exemption was granted in part because the project would save energy.
That's the norm for such stimulus projects, according to a report from the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Out of 8,117 DOE-funded stimulus projects, 99 percent were exempted from detailed study of their environmental impacts, according to the council's figures.
LINK: Read the Center for Public Integrity investigation, "Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus."
Despite that, the White House council insisted the government was taking the proper steps to ensure "environmental stewardship and commitment to the sustainability goals embodied in many of the provisions of (the stimulus act)."
Meyer, the former DNR secretary, said, "Obviously, the fact that companies are getting money to expand and create jobs, I would think, is a good thing.
"But literally, some of these companies that have not been good actors in terms of managing the facility are getting rewarded," Meyer said. "Even though they're paying fines, they're getting far more back from the government."
Editor's note: Christa Westerberg, a Madison attorney who provides pro bono legal services to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, has represented Cambrians for Thoughtful Development, a citizens group, in two federal environmental lawsuits against Didion Milling Inc. Westerberg provided the Center with information about the suits that has been independently verified. She did not provide the Center with legal services or participate in the writing or editing of this report.
The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with its partners — Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio and the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication — and other news media. Kate Golden may be reached at kgolden@wisconsinwatch.org.
The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.
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by Kate Golden, Wisconsin Watch

How a polluter gets stimulus money — and avoids environmental review

by Kate Golden, Wisconsin Watch
November 29, 2010

AUDIO SLIDESHOW

Cambria residents react

Hear neighbors who oppose Didion Milling's grant describing what it's like to live nearby. (Click picture to open a new page.)

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A collaborative investigation

Read about how Didion was one of thousands of companies were exempted from environmental review for stimulus projects in an investigation from the Center for Public Integrity, which used our reporting; a version of CPI's story also ran in the Nov. 29 Washington Post.

Last December, when Gov. Jim Doyle announced $14.5 million in federal stimulus funds for energy-efficiency projects involving nine companies, he called it "a tremendous opportunity to be one of the greenest manufacturing states in the country."

What Doyle did not mention was that ethanol producer Didion Milling Inc., which got the largest share at $5.6 million, is one of Wisconsin's most chronic air and water polluters — and a firm designated by the federal government as a "high priority violator."

Less than a month before Doyle's announcement, a federal judge ruled that Didion had violated the federal Clean Water Act many times in 2008 and 2009. Among the violations: the use of excessive amounts of chlorine and other chemicals, and the discharge of a murky yellow liquid with solids down a company wastewater pipe into a tributary of a fishing lake. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by residents who lived near the company's Cambria plant, about 45 miles northeast of Madison.

The company settled a state lawsuit in April by agreeing to pay $1.05 million for 23 air and water claims that stretched from 1999 to 2010 — a move that effectively ended three federal lawsuits filed by residents living near the plant.

Documents obtained by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism under open-records laws show officials evaluating Didion's application for the U.S. Energy Department stimulus grant didn't ask about — and Didion didn't disclose — details of its environmental compliance.

And once it won the grant, Didion's project was exempted from an analysis of its environmental impact — just like 99 percent of the $33 billion in stimulus projects funded by the Energy Department, according to a collaborative investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization based in Washington, D.C., and the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

Doyle's office did not respond to e-mail and phone messages seeking response.

Didion's vice president of operations, Dale Drachenberg, declined to address questions about the company's environmental record or the process that led to the grant. Instead, he issued a statement touting the job-creation and clean-energy benefits of the stimulus-funded project.

On its website and in statements, Didion has cast itself as an eco-friendly company. It was one of 50 companies that in August won a state Department of Commerce's Wisconsin Profitable Sustainability Initiative grant to examine and reduce its waste streams. And in September, the company hosted a Green Energy Expo at the Cambria plant where people could learn about recycling, energy usage tips and the future of alternative fuels.

But to Karen Dettman, who lives across the street from Didion and has lived with its spills, smells, noise, traffic and murky discharges, the federal stimulus grant represents "green energy at any cost."

Environmental advocates in Wisconsin also believe federal and state regulators should have taken companies' environmental records into account before awarding stimulus grants and exempting most of the projects from environmental review.

"You'd think it would be a normal part of the check, whether they're in compliance with environmental laws. That's a phone call or two at the most," said George Meyer, a former state Department of Natural Resources secretary who is now executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.

Consultants working for the state's Focus on Energy program acknowledged they recommended Didion's plant-expansion proposal for a grant without considering the company's past environmental problems.

Betsy Lawton, an attorney for Midwest Environmental Advocates, a nonprofit environmental law center in Madison that represented Cambria residents in the Clean Water Act lawsuit, said, "From my perspective, polluters shouldn't be rewarded with free money to expand their pollution."

"That money," Lawton said, "should be going to companies that comply with the law."

Niel Lawrence, senior attorney for a national environmental advocacy nonprofit group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, drew this analogy: "Go try to apply for a job without being asked 'Have you ever been arrested?' But DOE is willing to give out five and a half million bucks without asking the questions that any employer would ask of a modern employee."

Drachenberg issued a statement to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, saying the stimulus grant will allow Didion to use 25 percent less energy for every gallon of ethanol produced. The company plans to use the stimulus funding to hire 75 people this year during construction, and 10 full-time employees in the longer term.

"Since the day we started construction on our ethanol production facility, we've made innovation and conservation top priorities," Drachenberg said.

A panorama of Didion's Columbia County ethanol plant.

An unusually chronic polluter
 Aside from the 2009 Clean Water Act lawsuit, a second group of residents sued Didion last year under the federal Clean Air Act for years of air violations that the state of Wisconsin had documented — but for which it had never punished the company.

Those and many other violations dated back to 1999. Among them: Didion built 15 grain silos, three mills and a grain dryer without applying for the required air pollution permit. The company exceeded emission limits and ran a grain dryer outside permitted times. And it falsely claimed on a permit application that it was complying with the law, according to court records.

Johnson Creek-based Didion Milling Inc., which owns the grain mills, is a family-owned company and the parent of Didion Ethanol LLC, the ethanol plant. The two plants are across the street from each other and joined by a tunnel, though the mill is in Cambria and the ethanol plant is in the town of Courtland. The companies, whose registered agent is John Didion, are jointly referred to as "Didion" in court documents.

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency database shows Didion has received 11 notices of violation in the past five years — among the most for any Wisconsin company listed. The notices signify that state regulators believe they have solid evidence the company has broken the law, and they are the first step toward punishing the company with a formal enforcement action.

"It's highly unusual for us to have a source that we've sent this many notices of violation to," said Tom Roushar, DNR air management program supervisor for the region. "Usually if we send one, the source corrects it, and we don't have to repeat it."

Cambria resident John Mueller has sued Didion twice in federal court for air pollution permit violations. Neither suit succeeded, but the state folded those violations into its $1.05 million settlement with the company this year. Kate Golden/WCIJ

In late 2009, while the governor was trumpeting the grant for Didion, the state Department of Justice was taking the company to task. Assistant Attorney General Steven Tinker alleged in a letter before the agency sued Didion that the company had racked up thousands of air permit violation-days, a measure of the number of days that each violation continued, though the total number was never counted in the Columbia County Circuit Court case that followed.

In March, the state sued Didion, and the two parties reached a settlement in April: The company would pay $1.05 million for 23 air and water claims from 1999 to 2010.

The settlement in state court effectively rendered the federal citizen lawsuits moot. According to Lawton, Didion got a deal: It could have been liable for $22 million if the citizens in the water lawsuit had prevailed.

Other violators have received funds nationwide

Examples of past environmental violators getting stimulus money have cropped up nationwide. Aerospace giant Boeing won a noncompetitive contract for $15.9 million to clean up a stream it had been fined $471,000 for polluting, according to California Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization.

LINK: Stimulus funds aiding companies fined for pollution, accused of fraud

And the nonprofit New England Center for Investigative Reporting found three construction contractors awarded stimulus funds in Massachusetts had failed to report their pollution-related fines.

LINK: Public works, hidden violations.

The lack of attention to companies' environmental records infuriates some residents of Cambria, a village of 792 people in south central Wisconsin.

"It's crazy not to consider their background and their history," said John Mueller, a Cambria resident who lives a half-mile from Didion's mills and co-founded Cambrians for Thoughtful Development.

The group sued the company twice for violations that were later included in the state's settlement. During his eight-year fight against the company, Mueller trudged through freezing rain at night to photograph the plume from Didion's grain dryer, later alleged by the state to be operating illegally.

"We know they're not trustworthy," he said.

Cambrians have become familiar with the sticky corn dust that settles on their windows and cars. Courtesy of John Mueller.

He described how Cambria residents have learned to distinguish the different particles from Didion's milling that settle on the village: the airy "redeye" from the corn cob, and the gooey "bees' wings" that stick to cars and windows.

Dettman, Didion's neighbor, described the plant's smell.

"People say sometimes beer, sometimes corn. To me it's nauseating, gives me a headache, so I think it's more than that," she said.

WATCH THE SLIDESHOW: Cambria residents describe life near Didion

But residents are divided over whether the plant is good for the community. At a county planning and zoning meeting earlier this year, Didion's expansion plans were approved unanimously.

Joelle DeBoer, who works for Didion but is not a spokeswoman for it, said her company has been a good neighbor by supporting local charities and providing local jobs. She wrote a letter supporting its expansion for the county meeting.

"I believe it's really going to help Cambria's community, just because we'll be bringing more jobs to the community," DeBoer said.

Didion never quizzed on violations

Records and interviews show that Focus on Energy, a state program that promotes energy conservation, didn't look at Didion's environmental compliance before recommending it for stimulus funding.

Officials at Focus on Energy, established by the Wisconsin Legislature to encourage renewable energy and energy efficiency, worked through a private contractor, CleanTech Partners of Middleton. Focus on Energy solicited applications from Wisconsin industries for federal energy efficiency stimulus grants. CleanTech picked nine, bundled them up and sent them off to DOE.

CleanTech got about 25 applications — from paper companies, a lawnmower engine manufacturer and others — and winnowed the field using American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and DOE criteria: whether the project would preserve or create domestic jobs, how the project would be managed, how much it would cost and the potential energy savings.

Didion proposed to install a host of new technologies at its Cambria plant that would produce more ethanol from every bushel of corn with less energy, thus allowing the company to expand production. The new technology would also extract a new product in the process, corn oil, to get more value out of the corn.

The Energy Department grant money, matched by Didion's utility, Alliant Energy, would help the project pay for itself in 3.9 years, according to Didion's application. It would save 11 million kilowatt-hours of energy — enough to power 828 homes for a year.

Past pollution never came up, said Thomas Reitter, a consultant for CleanTech who worked on the applications for Focus on Energy. The only environmental criterion he addressed was to make sure companies fully filled out DOE's boilerplate environmental questionnaire.

"It's DOE's evaluation," he said.

Environmental form is blank on environmental history

In fact, Didion did not answer a few of the questions.

The environmental questionnaire is designed to help DOE decide whether a project should trigger a detailed environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. Such reviews can take months or even years to complete.

The form asked questions including what permits would be required, how solid waste would be hauled and what emissions would result. But nothing in the 12-page form asks firms about their compliance history.

"Describe any issues that would generate public controversy regarding the project," the form says.

Didion checked "None."

"Summarize the significant impacts that would result from the proposed project," the last question on the form states, asking for details.

Didion left that one blank.

Background checks don't focus on pollution

DOE officials also do background checks on potential awardees, said Angela Harshman, the DOE contract specialist who approved Didion's award, in an e-mail response to questions about the grant.

DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory, which awarded the grant, declined to release the results of its backgrounding of Didion or any other company.

But a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism review of DOE's process and Didion's application provided no evidence that officials who approved the grant looked at the company's environmental record.

A typical check includes "financial capability," such as audits, assessments of a company's financial health and "environmental information via an environmental questionnaire," Harshman wrote.

The government's own oversight of stimulus funding emphasizes waste, fraud and abuse. Ed Pound, spokesman for the federal stimulus oversight board, said the board would be concerned about a company's past, for example, if it had a history of failing to complete contracts, rigging bids or misappropriating funds, or if it had been barred from doing business with the government.

Past environmental violations might raise a red flag, Pound said, "if they involved potential criminal activity."

That wouldn't include Didion's $1.05 million payment to settle its violations. It was a civil matter.

Exemptions from environmental review are standard

Didion asked for and got a categorical exemption from federal NEPA review, which means the project was found legally to have no "significant effect on the human environment." A checked box on an application form indicated the exemption was granted in part because the project would save energy.

That's the norm for such stimulus projects, according to a report from the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Out of 8,117 DOE-funded stimulus projects, 99 percent were exempted from detailed study of their environmental impacts, according to the council's figures.

LINK: Read the Center for Public Integrity investigation, "Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus."

Despite that, the White House council insisted the government was taking the proper steps to ensure "environmental stewardship and commitment to the sustainability goals embodied in many of the provisions of (the stimulus act)."

Meyer, the former DNR secretary, said, "Obviously, the fact that companies are getting money to expand and create jobs, I would think, is a good thing.

"But literally, some of these companies that have not been good actors in terms of managing the facility are getting rewarded," Meyer said. "Even though they're paying fines, they're getting far more back from the government."

Editor's note: Christa Westerberg, a Madison attorney who provides pro bono legal services to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, has represented Cambrians for Thoughtful Development, a citizens group, in two federal environmental lawsuits against Didion Milling Inc. Westerberg provided the Center with information about the suits that has been independently verified. She did not provide the Center with legal services or participate in the writing or editing of this report.

The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with its partners — Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio and the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication — and other news media. Kate Golden may be reached at kgolden@wisconsinwatch.org.

The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.

This article first appeared on Wisconsin Watch and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Tagged: Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Didion Milling, DNR, Environmental Violations, Ethanol, green energy, jim doyle, stimulus, water pollution
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One reply on "How a polluter gets stimulus money — and avoids environmental review"
Tom H. says:
Has anyone looked at how much money Didion has put in Govenor Doyle's campaign fund over the years? I bet it is significant!
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1- CPAO/IT&Tech/Life Certificate/2 (Vol-V)/2020-21/41 2020/09/28 Extension of period for submission of Life Certificate from October 2020 till December 2020.
2- CPAO/IT &Tech/Bank Performance/2017-18/132 2018/10/05 Timely Revision of Pension as per 7th CPC.
3- CPAO/Tech/Amdt.-Sch.Book/2014-15/720 2014/11/14 1.Correction slip No.22 dated-10.11.2014 2.Process of digital life certificate issued for Pensioners.
4- CPAO/Tech/Life Certificate/2014-15/670-711 2014/10/31 Submission of Life Certificate in the month of November, 2014.
5- CPAO/Tech/Simplification/2014-15/595-636 2014/10/14 Submission of Form 14 by the spouse to the pension disbursing bank after the death of the pensioner - instruction reg.
6- No.1/18/01-P&PW(E)(Vol.II) 2014/09/30 Competent Medical Officer/Board for issuing certificate of disability for the purpose of family pension under rule 54 of CCS(Pension)Rules,1972-reg.
7- No.08/01/2013-FF(P) 2014/08/21 Grant of another installment of DA to the FF and their eligible dependents under the SSSP scheme,1980. w.e.f. 01-08-2014
8- CPAO/Tech/Simpli/2014-15/99-175 2014/08/08 Simplification of pension procedure-submission of undertaking by retiring Government servant along with pension papers.
9- CPAO/Tech/e-PPO/2014-15/179-214 2014/07/30 Software (E-PPO utility) for processing pension cases.
10- CPAO/Tech/Life Certificate/2014-15/99-175 2014/07/28 Requirement of Life Certificate at the time of first credit of pension.
11- CPAO/Tech/e-ppo/2014-15/73 2014/06/17 software (e-PPO utility) for processing pension.
12- CPAO/Tech/Master Data/2014-15/53 2014/05/29 Reconciliation of Master Data
13- No.1/27/2011- P&PW (E) 2014/05/07 Simplification of pension procedure - submission of undertaking by retiring Government servant along with pension papers - reg.
14- CPAO/Tech/Meeting with Banks/2010-11/309 2011/04/15 Establishment of Central Pension Processing Centre(CPPC) for Disbursement of Central Civil Pensions
15- No.52/CC/28/UP/2007-FF(NZ) 2011/04/08 Swatantrata Sainik samman Pension from Central Revenues to the Freedom Fighters and their families -Implementation of Court order Reg.
16- CPAO/Tech/Post 2006/Reconciliation/2010-11/276 2011/03/30 Decisions of the review meetings on pension related matters.
17- 38020/02/2010-FC-3 2011/03/30 Grant of Dearness Relief to Industrial Dearness Allowance (IDA) Pensioners/Family Pensioners of the FCI at the modified rates with effect from 01.01.2011
18- No38020/2/2010-PC3 2011/01/11 DR on IDA Pattern
19- CPAO/TECH/Grievances/2010-11/986 2010/12/24 Commencement of family pension and procedure thereof.
20- CPAO/Tech/grievances/2010-11/983 2010/12/22 Payment of pension to old/sick/physically handicapped pensioners
21- CPAO/TECH/Annexure III/2010-11/953 2010/12/06 Meeting of Secretary (Pension) and other Government Pension Departments with the representatives of banks regarding issue of revised PPOs in respect of Pre-2006.
22- 45/3/2008/-P & PW (F) DT 30/09/2010 2010/09/30 Special Benefits in cases of death and disability in service - payment of disability pension/family pension - regarding
23- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) dt-28-09-2010, 45/3/2008-P&PW(F) dt-30-09-2010 and 42/18/2010 -P&PW(G) dt 27-10-2010, 38/79/08 -P&PW(G) dt-27-10-201038/37/08-P&PW(A) dt-28-09-2010, 45/3/2008-P&PW(F) dt-30-09-2010 and 42/18/2010 -P&PW(G) dt 27-10-2010, 38/79/08 -P&PW(G) dt-27-10-2010 2010/09/28 Revision of Pre-2006 Pensioners as per Para-4.5, Special benefits in case of death & disability in service, Payment & Commutation value of Pension in respect of employees who retired on & after 01-01-2006 But before 02-09-2008 and expired and gratuity dt in r/o who received pension in pre-revised scale.Revision of Pre-2006 Pensioners as per Para-4.5, Special benefits in case of death & disability in service, Payment & Commutation value of Pension in respect of employees who retired on & after 01-01-2006 But before 02-09-2008 and expired and gratuity dt in r/o who received pension in pre-revised scale.
24- CPAO/Tech/Amendments/Sch. Book/2010-11/576 & 609 2010/08/02 Correction Slip No. 9,10 & 11 of Scheme Booklet
25- CPAO/Tech/Nodal Officer/Vol-II/2010/552 2010/07/13 Issue of revised PPOs for pre-2006 pensioners.
26- CPAO/Tech/6thCPC/Misc/2010/540 2010/07/08 Timelines for the Settlement of Pensionary dues authorised by CPAO in respect of Central Civil Pensioners including AIS officers and the employees of the Central Para Military Forces in Authorized banks.
27- CPAO/Tech/Medical Allow./2010-11/P-520 2010/06/29 EnhancedMedical Allowance from Rs.100/- P.M. to 300/- P.M. with effect from 1st September 2008
28- 4/25/2008-P&PW(D) 2010/05/26 Grant of Fixed Medical Allowance(FMA) to the Central Government Pensioners residing in areas not covered under CGHS.
29- CPAO/Tech/RTI/Report/2010-11/325 2010/04/26 Submission of Quarterly Report of Cases received under RTI Act 2005, Quarter ending 31/03/2010.
30- CPAO/Estt./RTI/2007/40 2010/04/22 continuation of this office order of even number dated 10-03-2010.
31- CPAO/TECH/2008/6th CPC/MISC/573 2009/12/31 Timelines for the settlement of Pensionary dues authorized by CPAO in respect of Central Civil Pensioners including AIS Officers and the employees of the Central Para Militry Forces in Authorized Banks- Regarding.
32- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/12/05 Representations regarding.
33- 38/37/2008-P&PW(A) 2009/12/02 Representations regarding revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners. (dated 12/02/2009)
34- F.No.38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/11/18 Revision of Pension on the recommendations of the Pay Commission - Applicability of the judgement of Hon"ble Supreme Court in CA No. 5566 of 2008 in the case of Civil Pensioners
35- F.No. 42/12/2009-P&PW(G) 2009/11/17 Grant of Dearness Relief to the Central Government pensioners who are in receipt of provisional pension or pension in the pre revised scales of 5th CPC w.e.f 1.7.2009
36- No.1/4/06-P&PW(E) 2009/11/17 Grant of Family pension to persons with disabilities - acknowledgement of Legal Guardianship Certificate issued by Local Level Committee constituted under the National Trust Act,1999 (No. 44 of 1999).
37- No. CPAO/Tech/6th CPC /2009-10/445 2009/11/13 Timelines for the Settlement of Pensionary dues authorised by CPAO in respect of the employees of the Central Para Military Forces and other Central Pensioners in Authorised Banks
38- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/11/08 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners. Clarification regarding Payment of Additional Pension/Family Pension
40- 28/30/2004-P&PW(B) 2009/10/28 Mobility of personnel amongst Central/State & Autonomous Bodies while working under Pensionable establishments - regarding
41- 42/12/2009-P&PW(G) 2009/10/22 Grant of Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners who are in receipt of Provisional Pension or Pension in the pre revised scales of 5th CPC - w.e.f. 1.7.2008 and 1.1.2009
42- 42/12/2009-P&PW(G) 2009/09/23 Grant of Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners - Revised rate effective from 1-7-2009.
43- CPAO/Tech/Nodal officers/Min/2009/304 2009/09/22 Collection of Authorised Banks-wise electronic list of pre-2006 pensioners and their family pensioners by Civil Ministries.
44- 4/38/2008-P&PW(D) 2009/09/17 Representations on method of revision of restorable 1/3 commuted portion of pension consequent to the 6th Pay Commission recommendations in respect of Govt. Servants who had drawn lump-sum payment on absorption in public sector undertaking/autonomous bodi
46- F.No. 38/88/2008-P&PW(G) 2009/09/07 Payment of Dearness Relief to re-employed pensioners and employed family pensioners.
47- No.1/16/08-P&PW(E) 2009/09/03 Simplification of procedures outlined in Rule 54(6) of CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972 regarding Family Pension to Handicapped/Disabled son/daughter of Government Servants/Pensioners -Reg.
48- CPAO/Tech/6CPC/2009-10/252 2009/08/28 Implementation of Governments decision on the recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners etc.
49- CPAO/Tech/6CPC/2009-10/257 2009/08/28 Implementation of Government Decision on the Recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Revision of Pension of pre-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners etc. and payment of Dearness Relief to re-employed and employed family pensioners.
50- CPAO/Tech/6CPC/2009-10 2009/08/27 Payment of second instalment of arrears of pension on account of Implementation of Governments decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commisssion.
51- 38/48/09-P&PW(A) 2009/08/27 OA No.504 of 2009 filed in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Ernakulam Bench - Grant of additional pension on attaining the age of 80 years regarding.
52- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/08/25 Payment of second instalment of arrears of pension on account of Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commisssion.
53- 387/37/08-P&PW(A).pt.1 2009/08/20 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners. (reg. Revision of Pension of Pensioners of Additional Secretary & Equivalent Level)
54- 1/15/2008-P&PW(E) 2009/08/17 Family Pension - Extension of the Scope of Family Pension to the dependent disabled siblings (i.e. brothers/sisters) of Central Government Servants/Pensioners.
55- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/07/14 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners. Clarification regarding NPA
56- No.45/4/2008-P&PW(F) 2009/07/08 Amendment to Rule 33-B of GPF (C) Rules, 1960- Iuuse of Notification dated 27th May, 2009, published in the Gazette of India on 6th June, 2009
57- No. CPAO/Tech/6th CPC/2009-10/ 119 2009/06/30 Revision of 1/3rd commuted portion of pension in respect of Government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Central Public Sector Undertakings / Central Autonomous Bodies- representations / clarifications consequent to Implementalion ot
58- 41/22/2008-P&PW(G) 2009/05/29 Resolution
59- 23/1/2008-P&PW(B) 2009/05/28 Payment of family pension in the case of Burma pensioners- reg.
60- 4/38/2008-P&PW(D) 2009/05/27 Revision of 1/3rd commuted portion of pension in respect of government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Central PSU/Central Autonomous bodies - amount of the revised 1/3rd restored pension plus dearness pay (DP) & Dearness Relief (D
61- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/05/21 Implementation of Government Decision on the Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Revision of Pension of pre-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners
62- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/05/18 Implementation of Government Decision on the Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission Revision of Pension of Pensioners/Family Pensioners
63- 38/41/06/P&PW(A) 2009/05/05 Additional Relief on death/disability of Government servants covered by the New Defined Contribution Pension System (NPS-AR)
64- 45/6/2008-P&PW(F) 2009/04/16 Implementation of the Government"s decision on the recommendation of the VIth CPC - revision of CCS (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939 - Constant Attendant Allowance. (dated 16/4/2009)
65- F.No.1/28/04-P&PW(E) 2009/03/31 Grant of family pension to the families of Government servants kidnapped by insurgents/terrorists.
67- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2009/03/23 Setting up of Anomaly Committee to settle the anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission"s recommendations. (dated 23/3/2009)
68- 41/88/07-P&PW(E) 2009/03/18 Web-based "Pensioners" Portal", a Mission Mode Project under National e-Governance Plan - Identification of Pensioners" Association and release of Grant-in-Aid in connection with implementation of - regarding.
69- 45/7/2008-P&PW(F) 2009/03/16 Implementation of the Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth CPC- Revision of provisions regulating special benefits in the cases of Death and Disability in service - payment of ex-gratia lump sum compensation to families of central Govt.
70- 38/79/2008-P&PW(G) 2009/02/16 Clarification regarding commutation of pension after the implementations of 6th CPC (dated 16/2/2009)
71- 7/7/2008-P&PW(F) 2009/02/13 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth CPC - Revision of provisions regulating gratuity - (dated 13/2/2009)
72- CPAO/Tech/6CPC/2008-09/3 2009/02/04 The changes in formats of Pension payment Order (PPO) and revision authorities necessitated due to the implementation of 6thCPC Report on revision of pension / family pension.
73- 42/2/2008-P&PW(G) 2008/12/09 Grant of Dearness Relief to pensioners/family pensioners (dated 12/09/2008)
74- CPAO/Tech/6th Pay Commission/2008-09/1313 2008/11/28 Implementation of the Governments decision on the recommendation of the VIth CPC - revision of provisions regulating pension / gratuity / commutation of pension / family pension / disability pension / ex-gratia lump-sum compensation.
75- F.No.41/88/07-P&PW(E) 2008/11/20 Web-based "Pensioners" Portal", a Mission Mode Project under National e-Governance Plan - Release of Grant-in-Aid to Pensioners" Associations for implementation of the Portal.
76- CPAO/Tech/6CPC/2008-09/1304 2008/11/19 Implementation of the recommendations of the 6th CPC on of revised benefits - revision of the format of Pension Payment Order and Special Seal Authority.
77- 45/3/2008-P&PW(F) 2008/11/18 Special benefits in cases of death and disability in service - payment of Disability Pension/Family pension - regarding
78- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2008/11/12 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission (Calculation of Pension of Government Servants, who retired during 1.1.2006 to 1.9.2008) (dated 11/12/2008)
79- 17(4)/2008(1)/D(Pen/Policy) 2008/11/11 Revision of pension for pre 2006 armed forces pensioners/Family pensioners - Ministry of Defence O.M. dated 11/11/2008
80- D.O. No: CPAO/Tech/Misc/2008 2008/10/17 Regulations all the pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2006.
81- D.O. No: CPAO/Tech/6th CPC/Misc/2008 2008/10/17 Instructions issued to Banks for payment of revised pension/arrears dated 17/10/2008
82- DO No: CPAO/Tech/6th CPC/Misc/1265 2008/10/14 Instructions issued to Banks for payment of revised pension/arrears dated 14/10/2008
83- 38/37/08-P&PW(A).pt.1 2008/10/14 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners etc.(dated 14.10.2008)
84- D.O. No: CPAO/Tech/6th CPC/Misc/1265 2008/10/14 Implementation of the revision of the pensionary benefits in respect of pre-2006 pensioners / family pensioners.
85- 14021-7-2008-AIS(II) 2008/09/26 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission Revision of provisions regulating pension/gratuity/commutation of pension/family pension/disability pension and ex-gratia lump-sum compensation (Applicable t
87- D.O. No: CPAO/Tech/6th CPC/Misc/1265 2008/09/26 Implementation of Government Decision on the Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Revision of Pension of pre-2006 for Central Civil Pensioners.
88- 42/2/2008-P&PW(G) 2008/09/25 Grant of Dearness Relief to pensioners/family pensioners-Corrigendum (dated 25/09/2008)
89- 42/2/2008 P&PW(G) 2008/09/25 Corrigendum - Recommendation of 6th Central Pay Commission - Decision of Government relating to grant of Dearness Relief to Central Government Pensioners/family pensioners - revised rate effective from 1-1-2006,1-7-2006,1-1-2007,1-7-2007,1-1-2008 and 1-7-
90- 4/38/2008- P&PW(D) 2008/09/15 Revision of 1/3rd commuted portion of pension in respect of government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Central PSU/Central Autonomous bodies (dated 15/09/2008)
91- F.No.23/3/2008 -P&PW(B) 2008/09/15 Enhancement of ad-hoc ex-gratia allowance to (i)Burma/Pakistan Civilian Pensioners/ Family Pensions; (ii) Retired Central Government employees covered under Indo- Pakistan Agreement - 1949: (iii) Dependents of victim of Quetta Earthquake: and (iv) Depende
92- notification 2008/09/09 Civilian Defence Services(Revised Pay) Rules 2008 - notification dated 9th September, 2008
93- 5/2/2006-E III(A) 2008/08/30 Sixth CPC - Pay Revision - Ministry of Defence Resolution dated 30th August, 2008 (ENGLISH VERSION)
94- No.4/79/2006-P&PW(D) 2008/05/13 Restoration of one-third commuted portion of pension in respect of Government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in public sector undertakings/autonomous bodies - implementation of Andhra Pradesh High Court judgement dated 24.12.03 in Wr
95- 38/86/03-P&PW(A) 2008/05/11 Pay Scales for the staff belonging to the organized Accounts Department with effect from 01.01.1996 - Fixation of pension.
96- No.38/58/06-P&PW(A) 2008/05/03 Applicability of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 in respect of those put on induction training prior to 1.1.04 and were in receipt of stipend.
97- Notification No. 571 2008/04/28 Gazette Notifications regarding the amendment in Central Civil Services(Pension)Rules,1972 .
98- No.42/2/2008-P&PW(G) 2008/03/19 Grant of dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners - Revised rate effective from 01.01.2008
99- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2008/03/10 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners etc.(dated 3.10.2008)
100- 38/37/08-P&PW(A)-pt.ii 2008/03/10 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission Revision of provisions regulating pension/gratuity/commutation of pension/family pension/disability pension and ex-gratia lump-sum compensation.(dated 3/10/2
101- No.4/4/2008-P&PW(D) 2008/02/20 Demand of Govt. Servants who opted for lump sum on their absorption in PSUs/CABs for release of balance pension and DR and during pre-restoration period and beyond - clarification regarding.
102- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2008/02/09 Office Memorandum - Revision of Pension of post-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners (dated 02/09/2008)
103- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2008/01/10 Corrigendum - Revision of Pension of pre-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners (dated 01/10/2008)
104- 38/37/08-P&PW(A) 2008/01/09 Office Memorandum - Revision of Pension of pre-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners (dated 01/09/2008)
105- No.8/3/2007-FF(P) 2007/11/13 Grant of Dearness Relief to the freedom fighters and their eligible dependents under the Swatantrata Sanik Samman Pension (SSSP) Scheme, 1980.
106- No.4/78/2006-P&PW (D) 2007/10/31 Deputation of Central Government Servants to posts in Central Autonomous Bodies - Review of Policy.
107- No.4/66/2005-P&PW (D) 2007/10/25 Amendment to Rule 37A of CCS (Pension) Rules,1972
108- No.42/2/2007-P&PW(G) 2007/09/18 Grant of dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners - Revised rate effective from 01.07.2007.
109- No.41/3/2005 - P&PW(G) 2007/08/08 Resolution Reconstituting SCOVA
110- No.41/88/07-P&PW(E) 2007/06/09 Web based Pensioners Portal, a Mission Mode Project under National e-Governance Plan(NeGP) - Identification of Pensioners Association reg.
111- No.4/79/2006-P&PW(D) 2007/06/09 Restoration of one-third commuted portion of pension in respect of Government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in public sector undertakings/autonomous bodies - implementation of Andhra Pradesh High Court judgement dated 24.12.03 in Wr
112- No.1/19/03-P&PW(E) 2007/06/09 Extension of scope of family Pension to unmarried daughters of Central Government servants/pensioners
113- No.4/10/2006-P&PW (D) 2007/05/14 Grant of Family Pension under the Employess Pension Scheme, 1995 and Family Pension Scheme, 1971 in addition to Family Pension under Rule 54 of the CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972.
114- No.42/2/2007-P&PW(G) 2007/05/11 CORRIGENDUM - Grant of dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners - Revised rate w.e.f 1.1.2007 & 1.7.2007.
115- No.38/86/03-P&PW(A) pt 2007/05/09 Amendment of O.M. dated 26th April,2004 relating to pay scales for the staff belonging to the Organised Accounts Department - fixation of pension.
117- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A) Part-III 2006/12/21 Implementation of government decisions on recommendations of the 5th CPC -Revision of Pension of pre and post-1986 pensioners/family pensioners etc. - Extension of date of submission of application for revision of pension/family pension.
118- No. 13/1/06-P&PW(F) 2006/11/20 Advance from the General Provident Fund (GPF) for pilgrimage and visiting places of eminence of all religions.
119- No.38/58/06-P&PW(A) 2006/11/10 Applicability of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.in respect of those appointed prior to 1.4.04 and put on induction training.
121- 1/4/06-P&PW(E) 2006/07/31 Family Pension-Appointment/ Nomination of Guardians in respect of persons suffering with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities.
122- No.34/3/2006-P&PW(G) 2006/06/29 Commutation of Pension on voluntary retirement
123- No.27012/5/2000-Estt(A) 2006/05/12 Procedure for grant of permission to the Pensioners for Commercial Employment after retirement.
125- No.9/17/2006-FF(P) 2006/04/12 Enhancement of Basic Pension under the Swatantrata Sainik Saman Pension Scheme, 1980 in respect of freedom fighters and spouses (windows/widowers) of deceased freedom fighters.
126- No.41/13/2005-P&PW(G) 2006/01/02 Merger of 50% Dearness Relief with pension to Central government pensioners/family pensioners w.e.f. 1.4.2004 - clarification regarding
127- No.38/189/2005-P&PW(F) 2005/10/27 Payment of difference of Gratuity by adding DA prevailing at the time of retirement to pre-1996 Central Government Pensioners - representation citing Supreme Court Judgements - clarification regarding
128- No.45/1/2004-P&PW(G) 2005/10/26 Implementation of the recommendation of the Vth CPC regarding conversion of 50% Dearness Relief into Dearness Pension - clarification regarding
131- No.CPAO / Tech / Amendments / Sch.Book / 2005-06/69 2005/09/06 Payment of Pension through Authorized Banks-Credit of pension to Joint bank account operated by a pensioner with his/her spouse.
132- No.38/86/03-P&PW (A) 2005/08/02 Pay scales for the staff belonging to the Organised Accounts Department. Fixation of pension
133- No.28/30/2004-P&PW(B) 2005/07/26 Counting of past service on submission of technical resignation on or after 1-1-2004 by employees governed by Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1972.
135- No.45/1/2001-P&PW(E) 2005/06/30 Ceiling on two family pensions admissible to child/ children of deceased Government servants under Rule 54 (11) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972...
136- No.38/29/2001-P&PW(F) 2005/05/12 Merger of certain percentage of DA as DP for reckoning emoluments for the purpose of DCRG and raising the ceiling on the maximum amount of DCRG from Rs.1.00 lakh to Rs.2.50 lakhs--DP&PW OM No. No.7/1/1995-P&PW (F) dated 14.7.1995--Honble Supreme Court jud
137- No.4/10/2005-P&PW (D) 2005/05/12 Deputation of Central Government Officers to Central Autonomous Bodies and Central Public Enterprises
138- No.4/10/2005-P&PW(D) 2005/04/25 Deputation of Central Government officers to Central Public Enterprises
140- No.38/42/2005-P&PW(F) 2005/02/17 Payment of difference of Gratuity to pre-1996 Central Government Pensioners - clarification regarding.
141- No.45/1/2004-P&PW(G) 2005/01/27 Implementation of the recommendation of the Vth CPC regarding conversion of 50% Dearness Relief into Dearness Pension - clarification regarding.
142- No.42/2/2004-P&PW(G) 2004/09/24 Grant of dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners - Revised rate effective from 01.07.2004
143- No.1/19/03-P&PW(E) 2004/08/30 Eligibility of divorced/widowed daughter for grant of family pension.
144- No.38/86/03-P&PW (A)-Part-III 2004/04/26 Pay scales for the staff belonging to the Organised Accounts Department. Fixation of pension
145- No.45/86/97-P&PW (A)-Part-III 2004/03/25 Implementation of recommendations of the Vth CPC pertaining to pensioners and family pensioners - revision of pension in respect of persons retired on compulsory retirement (Rule 40) and in receipt of Compassionate allowance (Rule 41).
146- No.45/52/97-P&PW(E)-Vol.II 2004/03/22 Grant of Ex-gratia payment to CPF retirees.
148- No.45/86/97-P&PW (A)-Part-III 2004/03/15 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission - Revision of Pension of pre and post-1986 pensioners/family pensioners etc. - Extension of date of submission of application for revision of pension/family p
149- No.28/19/2001-P&PW (B) 2003/11/11 Counting of "Boy Service" rendered before the age of 18 years in Armed Forces, for civil pension.
152- No.4/14/2001-P&PW(D) 2003/09/19 Revision of pension and other attendant benefits of Central Government employees retired/retiring on IDA pay scales and opting for pensionary benefits of combined service in Government and public sector undertakings (PSU).
153- No.41/19/2003 - P&PW(G) 2003/06/20 Resolution Reconstituting SCOVA
154- No.38/38/02-P&PW (A) 2003/04/23 Re-employed military pensioners - removal of floor ceiling of minimum pension
155- No.38/38/02-P&PW(A) 2003/04/23 Re-employed military pensioners - removal of floor ceiling of minimum pension.
156- No.45/86/97-P&PW (A)-Part-III 2003/03/26 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission - Revision of Pension of pre and post-1986 pensioners/family pensioners etc. --Extension of date of submission of application for revision of pension/ family
157- No. 28/19/2002-P&PW(B) 2003/02/19 Mobility of personnel between Central Government Departments and Autonomous Bodies- Discharging of DCRG liability by autonomous bodies where pension scheme is not in operation
158- No.4/61/99-P&PW (D) 2002/12/28 Condition for Payment of Pension on absorption consequent upon conversion of a Government Department into a Central Autonomous Body or Public Sector Undertaking
159- No.4/61/99-P&PW(D) 2002/12/20 Terms and conditions of payment of pensionary benefits in respect of Central Government employees transferred to autonomous bodies/public sector undertakings consequent upon conversion of Govt. Dept./Office into autonomous body/public sector undertaking.
160- No.42/2/2002-P&PW(G) 2002/10/31 Grant of dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners- Revised rate effective from 01.07.2002.
161- CPAO/TECH/STG.COM/CGA/2001-02/372 2002/09/18 The Single Window System For C C pensioner W.e.f.1-11-2002 RBI Circular NO. DGBA.GAD.130/45.01.001/2002-03 Dated 30.8.2002 Refers
162- No.4/18/99-P&PW(D) 2002/08/14 Permanent transfer of Govt. servants to Govt. Companies/Corporations - grant of retirement benefits to permanent Govt. servants on absorption prior to 16.6.67.
163- No.1/19/96-P&PW(E) 2002/07/19 Grant of Family Pension under the Employees Pension Scheme, 1995 and the Family Pension Scheme, 1971 in addition to Family Pension under Rule 54 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.
164- No.38/34/2001-P&PW(F) 2002/04/29 Rate of interest payable on delayed payment of DCRG and rate of interest chargeable on refund of pensionary benefits already drawn, in connection with counting of past service under CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 and Department of Pension & Pensioners" Welfare
165- No.45/51/97-P&PW(E)-Vol.II 2002/04/19 Recommendation of the Fifth Central Pay Commission - Grant of Family Pension to Parents - clarification Regarding.
167- 45/22/97-P&PW(C) 2001/11/09 Special Benefits in cases of death and disability in service - payment of disability pension/family pension - recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission.
168- No.28/7/99-P&PW (B)(Vol.II) 2001/11/04 Re-employed military pensioners - drawal of separate military pension -removal of limitation on Civil pension.
171- No.45/51/97-P&PW(E)-Vol.II 2001/07/25 Eligibility of disabled divorced/widowed daughter for grant of family pension.
172- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A) 2001/07/08 Implementation of government decision on the recommendations of the Vth CPC - Revision of Pension of pre-96 pensioners/family pensioners etc.
173- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A) Pt.I 2001/04/12 Implementation of government decisions on recommendations of the Vth CPC - Revision of provisions regulating pension/commutation of pension.
174- No.4/29/99-P&PW(D) 2000/12/07 Restoration of 1/3rd commuted portion of pension after 15 years from the date of commutation or 1.4.85, whichever is later in respect of Government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Public Sector Undertaking/Autonomous Body - Impleme
175- No.4/61/99-P&PW (D) 2000/09/30 (Introduction of Rule 37A in CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972)
177- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A)(pt.IV) 2000/09/21 Implementation of government decision on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to retirement benefits to pre-1986 pensioners - clarifications regarding personal pension.
179- No.38/99/99-P&PW(C) 2000/04/17 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of 5th Central Pay Commission - Grant of fixed medical allowance @ Rs.100/- p.m. to Central Government pensioners residing in areas not covered under CGHS.
180- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A)-III 2000/04/10 Implementation of government decision on the recommendations of the fifth Central Pay Commission-Revision of Pension of Pre and POST-1986 pensioners/family pensioners etc. - Extension of date of submission of application for revision of pension/family pen
181- 45/22/97-P&PW(C) 2000/03/02 Special benefits in cases of death and disability in service - payment of Disability Pension/Family pension - recommendations of Fifth Central Pay Commission
182- No.45/52/97-P&PW(E)-Vol.II 2000/01/14 Grant of Ex-Gratia payment in respect of CPF retirees and their family members.
183- No.4/14/2000-P&PW(D) 2000/01/06 Settlement of pensionary terms in respect of Government employees transferred to autonomous Organisations/public undertakings consequent on the conversion of Government Department/Office into an Autonomous Body or Public Undertaking.
184- No.4/59/98-P&PW(D) 1999/12/01 Implementation of Government"s decisions on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to retirement benefits - extension of the provisions of the O.M.No.45/10/98-P&PW(A) dated 17th December, 1998 to absorbed employees in PSUs/Autono
185- No. 45/86/97-P&PW(A)-Part-I 1999/10/18 Implementation of Governments decisions on the recommendations of the Vth Central Pay Commission - Revision relating to pension/ commutation of pension.
186- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A)-III 1999/09/24 Implementation of Governments decision on the recommendations of the fifth Central Pay Commission-Revision of Pension of Pre and Post-1986 pensioners / family pensioners etc. - Extension of date of submission of application for revision of pension / famil
187- No.42/2/99-P&PW(G) 1999/09/15 Grant of dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners - Revised rates effective from 01.07.1999.
188- No.45/57/97-P&PW(C) 1999/08/18 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission - Grant of fixed medical allowance @ Rs.100/- p.m. to Central Government pensioners residing in areas not covered under CGHS - clarifications in respect of ex
189- No.45/2/99-P&PW(E) 1999/07/22 Revision of Family Pension of pre-1996 deceased Government servants/pensioners - instructions regarding prompt revision.
190- No.45/51/97-P&PW(E) 1999/07/21 Recommendations of 5th Central Pay Commission - Grant of Family Pension to Parents, Sons and Daughters - Clarifications Regarding.
191- No.45/8/98-P&PW(E) 1999/06/22 Implementation of Government"s decision on the Recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission - Revision of enhanced family pension in case of pre-1996 pensioners/family pensioners.
192- No.33/4/98-P&PW(C) 1999/06/21 Revision of Family pension equal to last pay drawn by the deceased Government granted under liberalised Pensionery Awards-Clarification.
193- No.38/64/98-P&PW(F) 1999/05/10 Implementation of recommendations contained in para 61 of 44th Report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Home Affairs - Time Schedule for disbursement of Pension - regarding
194- No.1/6/98-P&PW(E) 1999/05/07 Admissibility of family pension to the judicially separated spouse under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.
195- No.4/59/98-P&PW(D) 1999/05/02 Implementation of Government"s decision on the Recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to retirement benefits - extension of the provisions of the O.M.No.45/10/98-P&PW(A) dated 17th December, 1998 to absorbed employees in PSUs/Autonom
196- No. 42/2/99-P&PW(G) 1999/04/23 Grant of Dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/Family pensioners. Revised rates effective from 01.01.1999.
197- No. 28/10/99-P&PW 1999/04/19 Counting of past service on mobility of employees from Central /State Government Departments to Central/State Autonomous Bodies -acceptance of belated options for counting of past service.
198- No. 45/86/97-P&PW(A) Part-III 1999/03/19 Implementation of Governments decisions on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission-Revision of Pension of pre-1986 pensioners/family pensioners- Clarification regarding.
199- No.45/73/97-P&PW(G) 1999/02/07 Recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission- Payment of Dearness Relief to re-employed pensioners and employed family pensioners-Decision regarding.
200- No.45/8/97-P&PW(E) 1999/02/02 Implementation of Government"s decision on the Recommendations of the Vth Central Pay Commission - period for payment of family pension at enhanced rates.
201- No.1/9/96-P&PW(E) 1999/01/21 Amendment the Central Civil Services (pension) Rules, 1972, for persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department
202- No.1/21/91-P&PW(E) (Pt.) 1999/01/15 Payment of family pension to handicapped children - Procedure for.
203- No.45/57/97-P&PW(C) 1998/12/30 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission - Grant of fixed medical allowance @ Rs.100/- p.m. to Central Government pensioners residing in areas not covered under CGHS - clarifications in respect of gr
204- No.4/56/98-P&PW(D) 1998/12/28 Restoration of one-third commuted portion of pension after 15 years from the date of commutation or 1.4.85, whichever is later in respect of Government servants who had drawn lump sum payment on absorption in Public Sector Undertaking/Autonomous Body - Imp
205- No. 45/10/98-P&PW(A) 1998/12/17 Implementation of Governments decisions on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to retirement benefits.
206- No.45/8/98-P&PW(E) 1998/12/15 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission - Revision of enhanced family pension in case of pre-1996 pensioners/family pensioners.
207- 45/55/97-P&PW(C) 1998/11/09 Special Benefits in cases of Death and Disability in Service - Payment of Ex Gratia lump sum compensation to families of Central Government Civilian Employees who die in harness - Recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission.
208- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A)-Part III 1998/10/02 Implementation of government decision on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission-Revision of pension of pre-1986 pensioners/ family pensioners etc.
209- No.42/3/98 - P&PW(G) 1998/09/15 Grant of Dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/Family pensioners. Revised rates effective from 1.7.1998.
211- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A)-Part IV 1998/08/05 Implementation of government decision on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission- Revision/updation of family pension in respect of Government servants who retired/died on or after 1.1.1986 but before 1.1.1996.
213- No. 45/51/97-P&PW(E) 1998/05/03 Recommendation of 5th Central Pay Commission - Grant of Family Pension to Parents, sons and daughters.
214- No. 42/3/98 - P&PW(G) 1998/04/15 Grant of Dearness relief to Central Government pensioners/Family pensioners. Revised rates effective from 1.1.1998.
215- No.45/52/97-P&PW(E) 1998/03/04 Grant of ex-gratia payment in respect of CPF retirees and their family members.
216- No.23/1/97- P&PW(B) 1998/02/23 Enhancement/Sanction of ex-gratia ad-hoc allowance to Burma Civilian Pensioners/ Family Pensioners and Pensioners/families of displaced Govt. pensioners from Pakistan who are Indian national but receiving pension on behalf of Govt. of Pakistan.
217- No.45/57/97-P&PW(C) 1997/12/19 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission - Grant of fixed medical allowance @ Rs. 100/- p.m. to the Central Government pensioners residing in area not covered under CGHS.
218- No.45/52/97-P&PW (E) 1997/12/16 Grant of Ex-gratia payment in respect of CPF retirees and their family members.
219- No.45/86/97-P&PW(A)-Part II 1997/10/27 Implementation of Government"s decision on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission Revision of pension of pre-1996 pensioners/family pensioners etc.
220- No. 45/86/97-P&PW(A)-Part I 1997/10/27 Implementation of government decision on the recommendation of the Fifth Central Pay Commission. Revision of provisions regulating pension/ commutation of pension.
221- No.42/2/97 - P&PW(G) 1997/10/27 Grant of Dearness Relief to pensioners in Implementation of government decisions on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission.
223- No.4/3/86-P&PW (D) 1997/03/07 Restoration of one-third commuted portion of pension after 15 years from the date of commutation in respect of the Government servants who had drawn lump sum amount on their absorption in a Public Sector Undertaking/Autonomous Body - implementation of the
225- No.28/24/94-P&PW(B) 1996/09/13 Clarification that service rendered in PSUs and Financial Institutions like Nationalised Banks including RBI/SBI,Life Insurance Corporation & its subsidiaries and General Insurance Corporation & its subsidiaries can not be counted for pension purpose unde
226- No.42/18/95-P&PW(G)-VOLL.II 1996/06/09 Grant of Interim Relief to Central Government pensioners/family pensioners.
227- No.42/18/95-P&PW(G) 1995/10/16 Grant of Interim Relief to persons in receipt of ex-gratia payment.
228- No.28/24/94-P&PW (B) 1995/05/30 Clarification Regarding (i) Grant of Pro-rata retirement benefits to the permanent Central Government employees who are absorbed in the Financial Institutions like Nationalised Banks including RBI/SBI,Life Insurance Corporation & its subsidiaries and Gene
229- No.28/10/95-P&PW(B) 1995/05/30 Mobility of Personnel between Central Government Departments and Autonomous Bodies - Clarification regarding transfer of Pensionary/terminal liabilities, where employee has rendered less than Five Years Service
230- No.F.5/14/91-P&PW(B) 1993/11/24 Grant of ad-hoc ex-gratia allowance to the Burma Civilian Pensioners/family pensioners and widows who are Indian nationals and receiving payment from the Government of Burma.
231- No.29/4/91-P&PW (F) 1993/01/13 Settlement of pensionary entitlement in respect of Central Government employees absorbed in Central Public Sector Undertakings / Autonomous Bodies in individual basis - Entitlement of family pension-
232- No.5/14/91-P&PW(B) 1992/09/03 Grant of ad-hoc ex-gratia allowance to the Burma Civilian pensioners/family pensioners and widows who are Indian nationals and receiving payment from the Government of Burma.
233- No.4/42/87-P&PW (D) 1991/01/29 Parity in the matter of payment of pro-rata retirement benefits to the Government servants permanently absorbed in the Central public Sector Undertakings and Central Autonomous Bodies -Guidelines for exceptions to the immediate absorption principle -
234- No.7/20/89-P&PW(F) 1991/01/22 Payment of interest on account of delayed payment of retirement/ death gratuity - regarding.
235- 28/10/84-PPW/Vol. II(D) 1989/07/20 Counting of service for purposes of pension of employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies seeking absorption in Autonomous Bodies under the State Government and vice-versa
236- No.4/18/87-P&PW (D) 1989/05/07 Settlement of pensionary terms etc., in respect of Government employees transferred en masse to Central Public Sector Undertakings/Central Autonomous bodies
237- No.4/42/87-P&PW 1988/04/19 Parity in the matter of payment of pro-rata retirement benefits to the Government servants permanently absorbed in the Central Public Sector Undertakings and Central Autonomous Bodies -Guidelines for exceptions to the immediate absorption principle -
238- No.28/2/85-P&PW(B) 1988/02/22 Mobility of Personnel between Central Government Departments and Autonomous Bodies - Extension of benefit of counting of past service to the pensioners, who retired prior to issue O.M. dated 29/08/1984.
239- No.5/1/85-P&PW 1987/07/17 Enhancement/Sanction of ad-hoc ex-gratia allowance to Burma Civilian Pensioners/ Family Pensioners and Pensioners/families of displaced Government pensioners from Pakistan who are Indian nationals but receiving pension on behalf of Government of Pakistan.
240- No.4(12)/85-P&PW 1987/03/31 Parity in the matter of payment of pro-rata retirement benefits to the Government servants permanently absorbed in the Central Public Sector Undertakings and Central Autonomous Bodies.
241- 28/10/84-PPW Vol.II 1987/03/20 Counting of service for purposes of pension of employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies seeking absorption in Autonomous Bodies under the State Government and vice-versa
242- 28/10/84-PPW. Vol. II 1986/10/30 Counting of service for purposes of pension of employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies seeking absorption in Autonomous Bodies under the State Government and vice-versa
243- No. 28(10)/84-P&PW.Vol.II 1986/07/02 Counting of service for purpose of Pension of employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies seeking absorption in Autonomous Bodies under the state Governments and vice-versa.
244- 28/10/84-PPW Vol. II 1986/06/17 Counting of service for purposes of pension of employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies seeking absorption in Autonomous Bodies under the State Government and vice-versa
245- No.28/10/84-PU-Volume-I 1985/12/09 Mobility of personnel between Central Government Departments and Central Autonomous Bodies - Refund of Pensionary/terminal benefits by Employee or Transfer of Pensionary/terminal liabilities by previous Department/Autonomous Body
246- No.28/10/84-Pension Unit 1984/08/29 Mobility of personnel between Central Government Departments and Central Autonomous Bodies - Counting of service for pension
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From Sticks and Stones to a New Home: The Story of Gigi and Buddy
September 6, 2019 March 7, 2020
The road to second chances is never easy, but it's almost always worth it. That's something Denise Christinzio of Gloucester Township knows well.
When Denise's dog, Princess, 17, passed away in April 2019, she wondered if she would ever adopt again. She found her answer the way most people today do – through the internet.
"I saw a Facebook post that said, 'God didn't give you another day on this earth because you needed it, he gave it because someone needed you.' I took that as a sign that I would adopt again someday."
As luck would have it, Denise stumbled upon VAO's Facebook post about Junebug, a chihuahua mix between 10 to 15 years old and Lester, a shih tzu mix between eight to 10 years old, who were found on the side of the road, huddled together and defenseless to the stones being thrown at them from kids on the street."
"I saw the story, and I immediately knew I wanted to care for them," says Denise. "I went in to meet them and adopted them soon after."
The pair wasn't in the greatest shape – both were suffering from an upper respiratory infection and malnourishment. However, despite their sickness, something changed the moment the dogs got in the car to go to their new home.
"They already looked so much different than when they were huddled up in the kennel," said Denise. "I believe animals know when they are being rescued, especially seniors. It was amazing to witness their reactions."
That day, the dogs were visited by family members, fed heaps of chicken and slept comfortably in their new owner's bed.
If the first day was any indication of their future, the dogs were in for a good life.
"They've adjusted quite well," said Denise. "They keep any eye on each other, but they have settled into their own spaces." Denise also renamed the dogs. Junebug is now Gigi, named after the supermodel, Gigi Hadid, because of her long thin legs and her slight walking problem that gives her a model-esque "strut." Lester was named Buddy simply because he seemed to like and respond to the name.
The dogs, while still very much connected, are opposites.
"Buddy is a very happy, energetic dog. I think he's mapped every inch of our backyard running around," said Denise. "Gigi is quiet and more content to lay down and cuddle. However, they are both gentle and well-mannered. I thank whomever socialized them correctly."
Another commonality among the dogs is their love for breakfast treats – both delight in bites of bacon, buttered toast dipped in coffee and donuts.
"They were so sickly thin when I got them. I've been trying to fatten them up a bit," said Denise. "Buddy has gained about 5 pounds. Gigi has gained about one and a half, but she's on her way to being healthy again."
Denise is grateful for the care VAO provided to Buddy and Gigi before she took them home.
"It takes very special people to love and care for them after what they had endured," said Denise. "The people at VAO are kind, compassionate and dedicated. Most importantly, they help those who cannot speak for themselves."
Denise firmly believes in the work of VAO and encourages those in her community to support the nonprofit's mission any way they can, whether that be through adoption, fostering, sponsoring events or donating to their capital campaign, "Building for a Pawsitive Future," which raises money for the shelter's new facility to care for cats and dog while they wait for their forever home.
"As a nonprofit, we need to stand behind them and help them continue to carry out their mission," said Denise. "Animals are willing to adjust, and there are so many of them in need. I encourage everyone, young and old, to give these animals a second chance. Anything you can do to help matters."
Denise is passionate about rescuing and believes if you have the opportunity, you should jump on it.
"We may be doing the rescuing, but I truly believe animals rescue us," she said. "They remind us each day to trust and love, forgive easily and enjoy the simple things in life like cuddles, walks on a sunny day and naps. Becoming one with their quiet, devoted companionship is most certainly worth it."
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Rewatch iPhone app will bring BBC iPlayer downloads to your phone | What Hi-Fi?
The BBC has cast doubt on whether Camiloo's new Rewatch iPlayer app will get the go-ahead.
"Camiloo is not a licensed distributor of BBC content online or on mobile," a BBC spokesperson told paidcontent.co.uk. "The BBC routinely looks for unauthorised usage of our brand across all platforms and when we encounter it we work to resolve the issue."
She would not comment further on whether or not this means the BBC would bar the app, which is expected to cost £1.19 if it gets approved.
Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners may soon be able to download their favourite shows from the BBC iPlayer if a new app gets the go-ahead.
Rewatch will work on both iPhone or iPod Touch, and Manchester-based developer Camiloo also confessed to working on an iPad version as well, taking advantage of the higher res 9.7-inch screen.
Currently, the official iPlayer iPhone mobile browser only allows you to stream shows over wi-fi, making it rather restricting for when and where you can play catch up.
However Rewatch will allow you to download your shows when you're in a wi-fi area and then watch them back whenever you want – although you'll only be able to keep them for the length of time they're available to watch.
Rewatch is currently in review for release so fingers crossed Apple gives it the thumbs up soon.


The Standard Bearer Schools (SBS) process engages the entire school community, examines data on student achievement and organizational conditions, and identifies and addresses root causes of underperformance.
What results do schools implementing the SBS process achieve? They move from school improvement to school achievement. For the first time since 2010, Belmont Elementary School (in Prince William County Public Schools, Virginia) is recognized as a School of Excellence.
Belmont Elementary serves a school population which is 83% low-income and includes many first generation American students. Using the SBS process, the school community--parents, staff, and new leaders--examined data and developed an improvement strategy that built on the school's strengths.
Over the course of just one year, the school focused planning for teachers, increased the frequency and focus of teacher feedback, built the capacity of teacher leaders, opened a Parent Resource Center, maximized division support, intensified math and literacy professional learning for teachers, and directly taught below-grade-level readers with an "all hands on deck" approach.
Student pass rates on Virginia's assessments, Standards of Learning, increased 12 percentage points in mathematics, 13 in English, 17 in history and social science, and 38 in science.
Belmont earned full accreditation from the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Both student engagement and the alignment of classroom instruction to rigorous standards increased markedly.
These results speak to the power of the Standard Bearer Schools process and the talent and commitment of the Belmont and Prince William educational community.
To learn how to become a Standard Bearer School, contact CTAC at 617-423-1444 or ctac@ctacusa.com.


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Welcome to the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Please join us on our journey as we relentlessly pursue our overall mission to promote health and combat disease in endocrinology and metabolism through high-quality, cutting-edge research, education, and clinical care.
Endocrinology is the study of how all cells and tissues in our bodies communicate with each other to maintain health. Given its fundamental role in the physiology and pathophysiology of virtually every organ system, the endocrine system is clearly highly relevant to all sub-specialties of medicine. Diseases of the endocrine system, such as obesity and diabetes, have reached epidemic proportions and are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Thus, there is a tremendous need to combat these increasingly prevalent disorders.
Our research mission is to create new knowledge that will improve the prevention and/or treatment of endocrine disease through cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research.
Our educational mission is to cultivate the next generation leaders in the field of endocrinology through rigorous education, training, and career development.
Our clinical mission is to promote health and combat disease in endocrinology through innovative, high-value clinical care.
In addition to the above, we are experiencing an unprecedented evolution of the health care and biomedical research landscape. This transformational change is driven, in part, by rapid advances in technology as well as escalating health care costs. These changes have led to the emergence of more personalized, patent-centered approaches to medical care that incorporate the full spectrum of genomic and phenotypic data to address individualized patient needs. However, many challenges persist in efficiently and effectively translating these advances into practice. Overcoming these challenges will increasingly rely on more multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches that are integrated across all core academic areas. I look forward to rising to the challenge of providing the best of the best of tomorrow's endocrine care today.
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