Plant, Owner Cited for Hazardous Waste
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A titanium maker and its owner were charged with illegally storing more than 11 tons of corrosive hazardous waste, creating a mess that a prosecutor compared to a horror movie scene.
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SUISUN CITY, Calif. - A fire burned early Friday at a massive fertilizer plant outside San Francisco, but it wasn't immediately known if the burning materials were toxic.
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A 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in eastern Ventura County may have caused hundreds of cancers in the surrounding community while chemicals from the site threaten to contaminate local ground and water, according to a report released Thursday.
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By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 1--The state of Washington is warning the Department of Energy that it could issue fines after DOE failed to have enough Hanford waste approved for shipment to a national repository in 2006.
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Federal authorities have ordered the owners of a former pharmaceutical factory in Anne Arundel to clean up thousands of gallons of leftover hazardous chemicals at a warehouse there.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 19--LOWELL -- Members of the Lowell Fire Department and its Hazardous Materials Team worked early Monday afternoon to contain a substance that had been spotted on the water of the city's Northern Canal.
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By Jack Minch, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Dec. 8--PELHAM. -- An unidentified chemical from China is apparently to blame for the sickness a worker suffered at the William Scotsman Corp. yesterday afternoon.
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By Stanley Ziemba, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 9--A forklift punctured a drum containing a chemical used in producing plastics at a Willow Springs plant late Wednesday, creating noxious fumes that sent eight workers at a nearby UPS facility to the hospital, officials said Thursday.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 4--Effluent has become so valuable that Marana wants to buy a Pima  County sewage treatment plant just to have access to the water it will  generate.
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Many plants can naturally clean chemically contaminated soil and groundwater. Researchers are now helping them do a quicker, better job of rehabbing polluted sites.
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APEX, N.C. -- A raging fire in a hazardous waste plant in this Raleigh suburb sent dozens of people to nearby hospitals overnight. No serious injuries were reported, but town officials urged as many as 16,000 people to evacuate from their homes, fearing they could be poisoned by chemicals in the...
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  MORRIS TOWNSHIP  Aerospace giant Honeywell International Inc. will pay a $500,000 fine for hazardous waste violations at its Aircraft Landing Systems facility in Kingman, Ariz.,  officials said.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 20-- -- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers told federal investigators several years ago about contaminated dirt piles around the factory that in recent months were reported as newly discovered, 32-year employee Chris Naas says.
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Three environmental groups said they intend to sue two poultry processing plants, claiming unlawful discharges of waste into the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.  The companies send waste to a treatment plant in Timberville that the state has taken to court over pollution of the river.
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By Walter Griffin, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 15--BELFAST -- A local discount retailer has agreed to pay $8,250 to the state's hazardous waste fund after admitting that it improperly disposed of hundreds of fluorescent light bulbs.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 28--OAK RIDGE -- The K-25 plant is badly deteriorated and thoroughly  contaminated with uranium and a host of other hazardous materials.
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Explosions and fire at a hazardous waste management facility prompted town officials to evacuate about 5,000 residents living within a mile of the plant as a precautionary measure early Friday.