'Toxic ship' cleared for breaking
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The former SS France cruise liner can be scrapped in India,  an official says, despite environmentalists' protests.
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By Cliff Hightower, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 2--DAYTON, Tenn. -- A chemical plant that was the site of an August  blast that killed a worker may face a fine of $91,000 after state officials  said they found 13 serious violations during an investigation.
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The world's largest cruise ship was held in port Monday for intensive cleaning after a second outbreak of gastrointestinal illness in two voyages sickened 108 people.
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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a freighter that broke in two pieces when it ran aground off Alaskaâs coast, seen as a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles.
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State regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
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A massive coal carrier was Monday pulled free of an Australian beach where it ran aground during a violent storm more than three weeks ago, said witnesses.
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By Jennifer Hill and Kim Pilling, Scottish Press Association. Canada has suspended three of its former Royal Navy submarines from service after last weekâs fatal blaze on a fourth vessel.
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The city medical examiner has ruled that the death of a retired police detective Â seen as one of the strongest cases to be linked to post-Sept. 11 illness Â was not caused by exposure to toxic dust while working at ground zero.
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BREMEN, Germany, Sep 21 (IPS) - The Panamanian flagged ship Probo Koala unloaded  more than 550 tonnes of toxic waste at Abidjan port in C- te  d'Ivoire a month back. Emissions from that toxic waste have  killed seven people and poisoned thousands.
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Michael Hubble cleared of charges that he endangered lives of three yachtsmen who died after their boat sank
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A ship carrying toxic waste sinks after being moored in a southern Turkish harbour for four years.
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Tests found no detectable melamine in the flesh of fish that ate feed adulterated with the chemical at two commercial fish farms in the United States, federal officials said yesterday. The fish was cleared for human consumption.
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Australian doping authorities have cleared retired swimmer Ian Thorpe of any wrongdoing after completing their investigation into an irregular test result.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 17--A worker at a Tacoma Tideflats bleach plant likely is responsible for a chlorine gas leak Monday evening that prompted evacuation of the industrial area, the plant manager said Thursday.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home Thursday after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.