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Earlier this week, there was a cave-in at a tunnel in Washington state. No one was hurt but officials scrambled to fix that quickly because it's part of the Hanford Facility, a nuclear waste site. The collapsed tunnel was covered in eight feet of soi

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The arrival of oil-tainted waste to federally approved landfills across the Gulf coast is raising concerns are raised about the potential impact on the environment and public health. An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf o

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AZUZ: According to the United Nations, food waste is defined as food that's initial safe for people to eat, but it doesn't get eaten because it's left to spoil or it's thrown out. The U.S. government estimates that food waste in America could be as h

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SSS 2011-04-11

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AP 2012-03-02

1. A Cleveland hospital says another student wounded in an Ohio high school shooting has died, bringing the death toll to three. The teenage suspect faces a juvenile court hearing Tuesday afternoon. 2. As voters headed to the polls in Michigan and Ar

2007年VOA标准英语-Modern Landfills Can Turn Garbage into Clean En

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The arrival of oil-tainted waste to federally approved landfills across the Gulf coast is raising concerns are raised about the potential impact on the environment and public health An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf of

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2015年CRI SPP Starts investigating Shenzhen Landslide

The Supreme People's Procuratorate announcement comes just a day after a State Council investigation team confirmed the landslide is being probed as a work safety incident, not a geological disaster. The massive pile that poured down to the industria

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When we think of waste, we dont usually think utility. Yet, as we face droughts, limited landfill space, and depleting natural resources, weve been forced to reconsider our castoffs, with interesting results. These five case studies show that with in

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