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Homes were being evacuated early Monday morning after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed outside of Philadelphia. A 40-car CSX Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania just before 5 a.m. Monday, prompting emergency crews to respond to a suburban area of Whitemarsh Township. Between 15 and 20 of the derailed cars were carrying hazardous materials, prompting a Level 2 hazmat response, Fox 29 reported. Officials evacuated houses and businesses in the area of the derailment as a precaution early Monday morning, saying there was no known hazard to the public at this time. Photos of the derailment...

The poor air quality in places like New York due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires has forced the cancelation of top Broadway musicals like Hamilton and the Hollywood writers strike. The haze and smog have created a thick blanket over the New York City area and caused several Broadway and Off Broadway productions to shut down just days before the Tony Awards. Both Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and the Lincoln Center’s revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot have both been canceled due to poor air quality.

Officials report the train was carrying "hazardous materials, prompting Union Pacific to monitor air quality at the site of the crash, according to the Splendora Police Department."

The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board recently released the “Deed Restrictions” for George Air Force Base that are required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) §120(h). Because of these CERCLA §120(h) Deed Restrictions, we now know that there were numerous Completed Exposure Pathways (CEPs) to the George AFB personnel, their families, civilian employees, and the surrounding community. The contaminated buildings, soil, air, upper and lower aquifers (these contaminated aquifers were the source for municipal and domestic drinking water supply wells for George AFB, Adelanto, several homes, and the Victor Valley Country Club) provided the Completed...

Some U.S. troops deployed to potentially dangerous or hazardous areas across the world will soon lose some extra pay. The areas include East Timor, Haiti, Liberia, Oman, Rwanda, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Bodies of water removed from the list are the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea. The land area and air space of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro have also been removed from the list. . . . A U.S. soldier stationed in an imminent danger area receives an extra $225 monthly stipend and two weeks of...

The Colorado health department is ordering bankrupt Abound Solar to clean up hazardous waste and thousands of solar panels that it says are unsellable at four Front Range facilities.

GOP: Obama, Democrats view energy as 'hazardous waste'By Vicki Needham - 04/07/12 06:46 AM ET Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said President Obama's policies are the cause of rising gas prices, not a lack of energy resources. Fallin said Saturday that the problem stems from a lack of leadership and questioned Obama's role in increasing the nation's energy output and in the hold up of the Keystone XL pipeline, especially as gas prices hover near an average of $4 a gallon. In the weekly Republican address, Fallin said “our pro-energy policies stand in stark contrast though to the policies supported by...

12:36 PM-CDT-April 22, 2010 Kansas City, Missouri "The EPA told the school mercury, even the size of a pencil lead, could render half of..."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hazardous material, but not a bomb, was found in a bag at an airport in Bakersfield, California, Fox News reported on Tuesday, citing the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. Security jitters have hit the United States since a botched attempt on Christmas Day to blow up a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam using explosives smuggled on board. Washington, blaming the incident on a wing of al Qaeda, has ordered additional screening measures for passengers. Fox quoted the TSA as saying it had found a hazardous material in a checked bag at Meadows Field airport in Bakersfield, California, but that...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1986597.html Gravedigger buried himself A Dutch gravedigger had a lucky escape after he accidentally buried himself. The 62-year-old man, from Nieuwleusen, was digging a grave in Zwolle cemetery when it happened, reports Gva.be. A trailer containing the earth he had removed tipped over and fell into the grave, knocking over the man and covering him completely. Luckily, a workmate was able to move the trailer and uncover the gravedigger's face to let him breathe. He called the fire brigade who managed to free the man after an hour. He was unhurt apart from a bump on the head.

The Marines were waiting for their pre-patrol brief in their operations center – flak jackets and helmets bunched against the wall and rifles leaning against them. Some were drinking Mountain Dews and laughing and others were battling on the Sony Play Station. It was an average scene, save for the sergeant leaning in his chair practicing marching tunes on his clarinet. That’s because this isn’t any ordinary guard force the Marine Corps has trained for quick reaction emergencies, this is the 2nd Marine Division Band. The Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based band, normally accustomed to the business of playing...

The Marines were waiting for their pre-patrol brief in their operations center – flak jackets and helmets bunched against the wall and rifles leaning against them. Some were drinking Mountain Dews and laughing and others were battling on the Sony Play Station. It was an average scene, save for the sergeant leaning in his chair practicing marching tunes on his clarinet. That’s because this isn’t any ordinary guard force the Marine Corps has trained for quick reaction emergencies, this is the 2nd Marine Division Band. The Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based band, normally accustomed to the business of playing...

From jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/FROM THE POST TITLED:Schlussel: Jihad on “24”: FOX, Kiefer Sutherland Repent to Radical Islam "Take Suhail Khan, who was the Bush White House’s director of Muslim Outreach. His father, Mahboob Khan, brought Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri into the United States and into his mosque, twice in the mid-to-late ‘90s, to raise money for Al-Qaeda. Suhail Khan invited anti-American terrorists, like indicted Islamic Jihad chief Sami Al-Arian, into the White House to meet with the President. (Incredibly, Khan remains in the Bush Administration as General Counsel to the Federal Highway Administration, where he’s informed of all transports of military and...

Want to purchase some locally produced, organic fertilizer for you garden? Unfortunately it contains arsenic, lead and mercury amongst other interesting additives. And it may spontaneously explode and burn while in storage. Not interested? Then how about buying acclaimed Foodland Ontario vegetables and fruit, grown on a less refined version of the same ‘natural’ fertilizer? These are not available at present, as Toronto’s sewage pelletizer, which made the fertilizer, burned down in July 2003. And biosolids ‘cake,’ the less processed poop, is not exactly popular with the province’s farmers. But they could be coming soon to a store near you,...

When they’re out of public view dealing with controversial items in camera, the high hand displayed by some Toronto City councillors is disturbing. Humiliated by revelations from the expensive ongoing public inquiry probing the MFP computer scandal and its recent testimony about an "intimate" relationship between former Toronto City Treasurer Wanda Liczyk, and a lover, who shared with a colleague some $3.8 million in untendered contracts, city council is going a long way to keep its $95-million biosolids scandal under wraps. "Biosolids" is the more palatable name given by bureaucrats to human excrement, which is used to fertilize farmers’ fields....

My wife's sister was speaking with her this morning and she mentioned that the military has reduced or eliminated my brother in law's hazardous duty pay. She said it was around $300.00/mo reduction. This started a couple of weeks ago. She said the military is saying that since the war is tecnically over that Hazardous Duty Pay will no longer be provided. Can anyone tell me if this is true and give me more specifics. My Brother in law is in the RI Army National Guard. I tried to find information about it on the web, but the information that...

FLUS46 KMTR 121419 HWOMTR CAZ005>010-065-074-075-131400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 600 AM PST THU DEC 12 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A SERIES OF SIGNIFICANT PACIFIC STORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE BAY AREA AND CENTRAL COAST...WITH THE FIRST RAINS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN THE NORTH BAY TONIGHT...SPREADING DOWN INTO THE REST OF THE REGION ON FRIDAY. THE PEAK OF THE STORM WILL ARRIVE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT PRODUCING...

<p>ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) --  An unidentified fluid leaked from a package in an Orange County office building Monday morning, with intoxicating results.</p> <p>At least four workers felt ill after breathing the fumes. The building was quickly evacuated and an Orange County Fire Department Hazardous Waste team was dispatched.</p>