California house spills out of shipping containers
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REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (Reuters Life!) - Dusty, rusty and   dark, a shipping container may seem an unappealing home to   anyone but, perhaps, a rat.
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A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.
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A container ship bound for China struck a fog-shrouded tower of San Francisco's Bay Bridge on Wednesday morning, causing a fuel spill and forcing the closure of several San Francisco beaches, officials said.
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By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--SOS to California boaters: Watch for a stowaway shellfish that could wreak havoc to the state's environment and economy if you let it sneak aboard.
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Most of the 2,000 people forced to evacuate after a 22,000-gallon railroad tanker leaked chemicals into a creek and sewer system were permitted to return home Friday.
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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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By Bruce Gerstman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 18--MANTECA -- Apartment dwellers: Step out to your communal garbage bin and take a look inside.   Ninety percent of what has been dumped there, according to city officials, could have been recycled.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a  Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian  island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a  sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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PARKFIELD, Calif. - A strong earthquake shook the state Tuesday from Los Angeles to San Francisco, cracking pipes, breaking bottles of wine and knocking pictures from walls...
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By Jeff Hood, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.
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By CARRIE ANTLFINGER  MILWAUKEE - As he left the funeral of one of three colleagues killed in a warehouse explosion believed to have been sparked by a propane leak, Rick Pollak was shocked to learn that inspections of propane tanks and pipes aren't required by law.
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By Jessie Mangaliman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 8--The Robertsville Station post office in San Jose, which was forced to close Thursday after a chemical spill, re-opened for business Friday morning, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - The weekend cleanup of a popular stretch of beach netted the usual garbage: clothing, beer bottles and rusty nails...
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 5--SPARTA, Wis. -- About 500 gallons of gasoline from a fuel tanker truck spilled when a fill pipe leading to an underground tank malfunctioned at the Amish Cheese House in Sparta, and flowed east on Avon Road, according to the Sparta Fire Department.
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Fuel oil is spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska, threatening the fragile ecocystem of the Aleutian islands.