NY cleans up after asbestos-tainted explosion
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Workers cleaned asbestos-tainted debris on Thursday from an explosion of a steam pipe that rocked Manhattan as some New Yorkers questioned official reassurances that the air was safe to breathe.
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The New Zealand city of Gisborne cleans up after a powerful earthquake damaged buildings and roads.
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NEW YORK  - After asbestos exposure, men are more likely than women to develop malignant mesothelioma, according to an Australian study.
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A transformer exploded in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, creating a huge plume of smoke and sending pedestrians fleeing from the scene, but police said the blast did not look suspicious.
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Work will begin Friday to dismantle a vacant, contaminated skyscraper that has loomed above ground zero since Sept. 11, 2001, when one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed into it, officials said Thursday.
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Australian building products firm James Hardie Industries Ltd., tainted by a row over asbestos, sought to repair its reputation on Wednesday
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Street-sweepers can receive bonus pay for cleaning up after bombings, but they do not relish the grisly job.
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A New York police detective died of  lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure  to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade  Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical  examiner said on Thursday.
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Residents trickled back into town Saturday after a fire at a hazardous materials plant, relieved that there were no serious injuries or damage to their homes while they were forced out for two nights.
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Bodies were still being recovered a week after Thailand's tidal wave disaster, as the clean-up moved into full speed in some of the devastated resort areas.
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By Matt Dees, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 24--DURHAM -- The fire at the Durham Yard Waste Compost Facility -- the cause of respiratory problems among frustrated neighbors as it burned for 13 days -- was extinguished Saturday.
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Workers who helped clean up after the 9/11 attacks allege they were not protected against toxins.
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Police last night cleared a Gold Coast apartment building of explosive devices, following a 17-hour stand-off with police. A 43-year-old man from Coombabah on the Gold Coast has been charged over the incident.
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People who stripped minerals at a plant in Dearborn between the early 1950s and 1990 were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos, according to a public health consultation released Tuesday by state and federal officials.
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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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A baggage handler hailed as a hero after helping police subdue an attacker at Scotland's Glasgow Airport is being honored in New York for his actions.
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Road cordons around the site of an explosion at a chemicals plant in Gloucestershire are lifted.