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| Scientists offer compelling images of Gulf War illness. |
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Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that it is a legitimate illness. Now researchers have rolled out a host of brain images that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
| FDA says Basic Food Flavors knew plant was contaminated with salmonella. |
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The company at the heart of a growing recall of processed foods knew that its plant was contaminated with salmonella but continued to make a flavoring and sell it to food makers around the country, say FDA inspectors. |
| How fundraising helped shape Obama's green agenda. |
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Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process. |
| Lejeune water probe: Did Marine Corps hide benzene data? |
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Congressional investigators late Tuesday requested detailed documents from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and a private contractor involved in the testing and cleanup of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the past two decades. |
| Toxic vapor worries persist. |
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Pompton Lakes residents now can hire their own contractors to install toxic-vapor venting systems, rather than trust the contractor hired by DuPont, the polluter. But the alternative program being offered by the EPA and the state has unleashed more confusion, anxiety, and criticism. |
| 3M's plan to burn more waste draws fire in Cottage Grove. |
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A chasm of mistrust between many Cottage Grove residents and the city's major employer, 3M Co., is widening as a plan to bring more materials to the state's only hazardous waste incinerator proceeds. |
| Court denies review of uranium mining permit in NM. |
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A federal appeals court has upheld a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision that allows a company to leach uranium at an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in northwestern New Mexico. |
| Shipment of nuclear waste arrives from U.K. |
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The first delivery of at least 850 canisters of high-level radioactive vitrified waste arrived Tuesday morning by ship from the U.K. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, where it will sit in storage for decades before being buried deep underground. |
| Oil spill reviews highlight government failures. |
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Two independent reports into one of Queensland's worst environmental disasters have criticised the clean-up effort, with one federal agency saying delays worsened the ecological impact. |
| Lawsuits challenge denials for gas pipelines. |
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Two local lawsuits are pitting municipalities against natural gas companies, and the outcomes could have far-reaching effects on drilling in the Barnett Shale. At issue: whether companies can use the power of eminent domain to acquire easements on public property. |
