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By The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 26--A pesticide spill shut down westbound lanes of Interstate-635 near Plano Road for about three hours Monday morning.   Fire officials said the road reopened about 10 a.m.   Lt.
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The White House Visitor Center was evacuated this morning after an accidental ammonia spill sickened some members of a tour group and briefly put chemical specialists on alert, officials said.
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By JAYETTE BOLINSKI STAFF WRITER  Employees at the Illinois State Police crime lab on Bruns Lane were evacuated Friday after someone broke a bottle of a hazardous chemical called acetonitrile.  Springfield firefighters were sent to the building about 3:20 p.m.
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Oil major BP Plc has shut down 10,000 barrels per day of oil production at its giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska after discovering a leaking flow line, the Anchorage Daily News reported on Saturday.
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Chemical plant responsible for river pollution in east China shut down    HEFEI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- A chemical plant in east China's Anhui Province has been shut down after it discharged a toxic chemical into a river and sickened 61 villagers on Tuesday, the local government said.
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Ships were halted from moving along the 53-mile (85.3 kilometer) Houston Ship Channel to the busiest U.S. petrochemical port on Thursday due to dense fog, said the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical spilled into the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after a barge ran aground, environmental officials said Wednesday.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Mar. 6--Nearly 2,000 gallons of a water treatment chemical were spilled over the weekend at the county's Lopez Lake water treatment plant, and some of it ended up in Arroyo Grande Creek.
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Oil major BP Plc  is studying  ways to avoid a complete shutdown of its Prudhoe Bay oil field  in Alaska by using other pipelines to bypass the oil transit  pipelines it is shutting down following the discovery of  significant corrosion on one transit line over the weekend, a  BP Alaska spokesman said.
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Hurricane Humberto spared Houston but blasted the Texas-Louisiana border area on Thursday, killing one person, shutting down three refineries and cutting power to 100,000 customers.
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Boston's Big Dig crisis deepened Thursday when Gov. Mitt Romney shut down the eastbound lanes of a major highway tunnel after two problem bolts were discovered in the ceiling.
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As many as 8,000 gallons of a toxic solvent spilled into the Ohio River Wednesday after a barge hit an underwater dam, Coast Guard and Illinois state officials told CNN.
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By Ron Seely, The Wisconsin State Journal  Sep. 15--High levels of carbon tetrachloride, an industrial carcinogen, have forced the Madison Water Utility to shut down a well that provides drinking water for neighborhoods on the east side of the Isthmus, including East High School.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As the search for six victims of a rescue helicopter crash was scaled back, officials on Friday turned to a growing problem stemming from the break up of a cargo ship off Alaska: a major oil spill near a sensitive wildlife refuge.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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Explosions and a fire at an industrial unit in northwest England prompted authorities to shut down a section of a major highway for several hours Monday morning, police said.
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By Aubrey Woods, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Mar. 6--HONEYTOWN -- The removal of a barricade led to a motorist driving into high water north of Brownstown on Monday night.  She and her 8-year-old daughter had to be rescued by Hamilton Township volunteer firefighters.