Uzbeks promise smelter clean-up
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A highly polluting copper smelter in Uzbekistan will have ceased to be a problem in five years, officials say.
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Federal environmental officials have ordered the U.S. military to clean up PCBs, pesticides, metals and other contaminants at McGuire Air Force Base.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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By Teresa Sharp  A meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday on the next phase of FMC Corp.'s arsenic cleanup project.  FMC Corp. plans to replace "shallow soils" on 13 residential properties near its plant.
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The operation to clean up the toxic waste which has killed seven people in Ivory Coast is to start on Sunday.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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If there is one common concern that people in Uzbekistan share it is their president's silence.
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Public order squads made up of workers are being created at industrial enterprises of the Donets Coal Basin (Donbass) for ensuring the functioning of the industrial sector of the area and for protecting the ...
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The iron ore producer is taking energy matters into its own hands.
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Newmont Mining Corp.  said on  Monday it has resolved all disputes relating to its Uzbekistan  joint venture, whose gold and some assets were seized last year  by the government.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Jan 17 (IPS) - The abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan --  the 135th state to abandon state-sanctioned killing --  effectively means the entire central Asian region has now  consigned to history a punishment that was strongly associated  with the days of the Soviet empire.
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.
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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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Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev held talks Tuesday with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the prospect of bilateral cooperation and regional security, the Uzbek government said in a press ...
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France braced for protests after 'brutal' clean-up.
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An outlawed Uzbek opposition party made a new attempt to get formal recognition Thursday, as Uzbekistan prepared for parliamentary elections that can only be contested by the country's five legal parties, which ...
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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.