Debris Testing Ordered By State
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By Don Jacobs, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 15--Demolition of the fire-ravaged McClung warehouses came to a halt  Wednesday when state officials ordered testing on the debris until further  hauling is allowed.
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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 The Associated Press  BELPRE, Ohio - Within weeks, testing for the presence of a chemical used to make Teflon that's been found in the blood of Ohio and West Virginia residents will start extending to hundreds and perhaps thousands of isolated wells.
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_ State health officials said Monday that the city was in violation of federal drinking water rules for the past six years by supplying incomplete results from its annual lead tests.
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Tests found decay and other problems in emergency air packs carried by state mine inspectors, prompting West Virginia officials on Thursday to issue an alert warning all of the state's underground coal operations.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - California will become the first U.S. state to try to measure how its residents are absorbing chemicals from common products under a "bio-monitoring" bill signed on Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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By Cindy Clayton, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 19--CHESAPEAKE -- Fire investigators are hoping to find the man who dumped a hazardous chemical last week on Rotunda Avenue near Portsmouth.
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 16--When Bill Froehlich worked for the state Transportation Cabinet, his boss often called out work crews to clean up trash he'd spotted along the highways.
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Investigators work at the air crash site in Baotou, north China&#39;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nov. 22, 2004. The salvage work has been carried out to search for the flight data recorders, or the black boxes.
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By The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S.C.  Dec. 14--The South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation  office of Occupational Safety and Health Act is investigating an industrial  accident that occurred at the Husqvarna Outdoor Products' facility outside  Orangeburg.
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NEW PROVIDENCE, New Jersey  - Two U.S. states are initiating random testing this week to try to stop the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in high school sports.
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State lawmakers pass a bill that allows judges to order treatment, joining 24 other states with similar legislation. By Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News.
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Hazardous materials teams were called to the state Supreme Court building Monday after a worker opened an envelope containing a white, flaky substance, authorities said.
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On Amchitka Island, former site of nuclear-weapons testing, a federal monitoring program takes effect this week.
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The state has stopped splashing roads with saltwater left over from oil production, at least until it gets results from a laboratory checking the wastewater for contamination, officials said Thursday.
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LUFKIN, Texas  -- A large piece of space shuttle Columbia debris was found recently in southeast Texas, a NASA official said.    The 6-foot-long piece of the crew compartment was discovered two weeks ago in Newton County by a wildlife biologist, sheriffs officials said...
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WASHINGTON - Flight controllers at NASA&#39;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by the Jan. 11 test of a  Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapon.