Mo. Groups Halt Anti-Cement Plant Efforts
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Environmental groups said Tuesday they have abandoned a four-year legal effort to block construction of one of the world&#39;s largest cement plants.
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DENVER Newmont Mining Corporation temporarily shut down a mine in Peru today after a two-week blockade of a road to the mine and thousands of workers protesting in the streets over concerns of the effects of new mining operations on water supplies.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suppressed warnings from its own Gulf coast field workers since the middle of 2006 about suspected health problems that may be linked to elevated levels of formaldehyde gas released in FEMA-provided trailers, lawmakers said today.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 12--A local Libertarian group wants to change city law to protect private landowners from efforts by the city to seize their property for economic development.
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A Chinese city has halted construction of a chemical plant after residents sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting possible pollution dangers, news reports said Thursday.
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By Kris Sherman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jan. 31--Tacoma City Council members slapped a six-month moratorium on planned residential developments Tuesday night.
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Chrysler LLC said on Monday it has closed four of its U.S. assembly plants due to a dispute with supplier Plastech Engineered Products Inc, which filed for bankruptcy court protection.
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BEIJING - A Chinese city has halted construction of a chemical plant after residents sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting possible pollution dangers, news reports said Thursday.  The $1.4 billion facility being built by Tenglong Aromatic PX (Xiamen) Co.
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More than 10,000 German miners halted work in protest at government plans to shut down German coal mines by 2018 and calls by the regional premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where most of the mines are situated, for an even earlier phase-out date.
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Antiwar groups waged a last-ditch effort yesterday to block an Iraq spending bill after Democrats, conceding that they did not have enough votes to override a threatened veto from President Bush, dropped deadlines for troop withdrawals from the legislation.
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Kerr-McGee Corp. plans to shut down its Savannah, Ga., pigment sulfate production, resulting in charges of $75 million to $85 million in the third quarter.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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Discovery of Native American burial ground halts multimillion-dollar repair project in Washington State.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 -- The Utah coal mine where three rescuers were killed and six men remained trapped will cease operations when the flagging effort to locate the missing is finally called off, mine operator Robert E. Murray said Wednesday. The statement by the combative chief executive of Mur...
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Up to 1,200 companies in Mexico  stopped production because of problems with the supply of  natural gas following a rash of pipeline explosions caused by  rebels, an industrial group said on Thursday.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 1--A local commission went on the record Wednesday night restating its opposition to off-site treatment of wastewater from weapons destruction at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.