Families in Acid Drama ; Faiths IN OUR CITY POLLUTION: Big Clean-Up After Factory's Toxic Spill
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By Dale Williams  A HUGE clean-up operation was mounted in the Black Country after 60 people were evacuated and families warned to keep windows shut following a major acid spill.   A cloud of white fumes floated over part of Tipton at about 8am yesterday.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months  after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material  from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World  Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is  also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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Life & style: On a London industrial estate, 25,000 litres of used cooking oil are turned into biodiesel every month - so why the flak from environmentalists?
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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By By Melanie Sill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun.
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KIEV/MOSCOW  - Scores of people sought medical help on Wednesday after a poisonous chemical spill in Ukraine, Greenpeace said, and warned of the dangers to health and the environment from the toxic fumes.
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The chemicals go down the drain, but in the environment they remain. Researchers have found that a complex brew of everyday compounds &#151; from products as ubiquitous as shampoo, bug spray and even that morning cup of coffee &#151; lingers in Minnesota waters even after they're showered off or dumped down the sink.
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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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China pledges to dispose key polluters    BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's top environmental watchdog launched investigations into six of the country's most notorious polluters on Friday, with last week's chemical spill on a tributary to the Songhua River on the list.
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By Christine Armario, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 11--Edith Lilie and her sons could only watch as their family's Middle Island paint store went up in flames.   For 54 years, Ben's Paint Station had been the sustenance of her father, then her own family and now her sons.
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Proposition O, the $500 million bond measure for cleaning up L.A.'s runoff pollution passed in November 2004. The City of Santa Monica passed the similar Measure V to clean up their stormwater in November 2006.
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By WARREN, Amanda  Firefighters and environmental advisers dealt with a chemical spill at a Hornby seed factory yesterday.   PGG Wrightson grain and seed general manager John McKenzie said the agricultural chemical was used in the company's seed-treatment process.
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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Families of those killed or injured when a Glasgow factory blew up hear in detail how the tragedy unfolded.
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Six-year-old Valentin Marroquin went from being apparently healthy one moment to battling leukemia the next. As his mother Rosario Marroquin started searching for answers, she kept coming back to their Houston, Texas, neighborhood, and the stench that often envelopes it.
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Vendors worry about the impact on their own businesses. Also: Satellite radio car competition & hellip;. A Chinese car powered by bleach & hellip;. and more.