France's Total among 15 in the dock over Erika oil spill
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The first trial in France over a major environmental disaster will open on Monday  to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999.
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At least 15 migrants drowned in the waters off the Italian coast in two separate incidents, including the disintegration of a boat that spilled more than 100 passengers into rough seas, reports said Sunday.
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About 1,500 workers in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz struggled to clean up oil and oil-soaked sand and vegetation on Friday after 5,000 barrels of crude leaked into a river leading to the Gulf of Mexico, coating local beaches
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Clean-up costs for last month's oil spill in San Francisco Bay are on track to exceed the $61 million federal insurance liability limit, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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MULHOUSE, France  - A gas explosion tore through a five-storey apartment building, killing 15 people and injuring another 14 in eastern France, authorities said Monday.
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16 spills reported   The country has witnessed 16 oil and chemical spills in the first six months of the year, Lu Xinyuan, the top environmental inspector said at a workshop in Beijing yesterday.
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A U.N. cease-fire resolution has authorized up to 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Contributions from European countries so far have been limited:
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WASHINGTON  - Authorities near Philadelphia battled to contain an oil slick after a Cyprus-flagged tanker on its way to a Citgo refinery spilled 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of crude into a nearby river, the US Coast Guard said.
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French officials were prepared to provide as many as 15,000 troops for an invasion before relations soured with the Bush administration, according to a new book published in France this week.
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Scientists planned to examine oil samples and the Coast Guard issued subpoenas in an investigation into who caused at least 1,000 gallons of oil to spill in Puget Sound, officials said.
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Deadly toxic waste which caused a   health crisis in Ivory Coast will be shipped to France for   treatment in mid-October, a French embassy official said on   Tuesday, as the death toll from the scandal reached eight.
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Environment officials assess the damage after 300 gallons of heating oil leaks from a tanker in a coastal town.
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Ivory Coast asked Estonia on Tuesday to   detain a Panamanian-registered tanker at a Baltic port after an   eighth person died from exposure to toxic waste discharged by   the vessel in the West African country last month.
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The action, dubbed Operation Web Snare, entailed more than 160 investigations over a three month period between June and August. Investigators say they have identified more than 150,000 victims with estimated losses of more than $215 million.
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According to Al-Yaum newspaper (December 12, 2006), a recent study by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry estimated at 153,000 the total number of the employed workers in the operating petrochemicals manufacturing companies in the Arabian Gulf States.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 19--MANATEE -- Workers laid down absorbent cloth along the shore and monitored containment booms in the water at Port Manatee on Monday after 900 gallons of oil used by Florida Power and Light Co. leaked into Tampa Bay.
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GENEVA: Up to 15 hazardous substances are expected to be added to a &quot;watch list&quot; regulating international trade in toxic industrial products and pesticides, the UN&#39;s environmental agency said.