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6 e B) `" G1 `8 Z Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he tried to extort money from the missing teen s mother in exchange for revealing the location of her body.Van der Sloot, 35, was extradited to the United States on Thursday from Peru, where he is serving a 28-year prison sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman. He was arraigned in Birmingham, not far from the suburb where Holloway grew up, in his first court appearance in the case.Natalee s mother, Beth Holloway, watched the brief proceeding from the third row of the courtroom. She stared occa stanley polska sionally at van der Sloot but showed no obvious emotion. For 18 years, I have lived with the unbearable pain of Natalee s loss, she said in a statement Thursday. Each day has been filled with unanswered questions and a longing for justice that has eluded us at every turn. But today ... I am hopeful that some small semblance of justice may finally be realized. Afterward, she hugged friends who had come to offer their support along with Natalee s father and brother. She declined to comment to reporters outs stanley website ide the courthouse.Shackled and wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, van der Sloot declined to use a Dutch interpreter offered to him at Friday s arraignment. He sat beside his court-appointed attorne stanley water bottle y, Kevin Butler, who entered the not guilty pleas on his behalf.Van der Slootis charged with one count each of extortion and wire fraud 鈥?the Kjob Crocodile bites man swimming to shore after his sailboat capsized" l, F! ?$ A3 s
Superfund toxic waste sites acro stanley cup ss the country aren t getting cleaned up because the money isn t available to make it happen. Those are the findings from a report released Wednesday from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. Across the board, in terms of every cleanup action we looked at, whether that was starting cleanup action, finishing cleanup action, it s really decreased over the past 20 years and stanley cup 2020 is no exception to that, said Jillian Gordner, Campaign Associate at the U.S. PIRG Education Fund.Currently, around 22% of the U.S. populati stanley website on lives within three miles of a superfund site, according to the Environmental Protection Agency EPA . There are more than 1,700 nationwide.U.S. PIRG found from 1999 to 2020, the money going to the superfund toxic waste program decreased by more than $1 billion.The report shows 34 construction projects didn t start in 2020 because of a lack of funding.It can take a decade or more to clean up a site. We really think a polluter paid tax should be funding this program. That way, it s not a financial burden on the states or the federal government. It shouldn t be something that s coming out of our pockets. At the same time, we re being exposed to toxic waste that could be increasing our risk for a variety of health problems, said Gordner.That tax on chemical and petroleum industries funded the program until 1995 when it expired.It would be up to Congress to add it again.U.S. PIRG says it s been considered several times, but there hasn t been |
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