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Experts: Lawn care can be easy and earth-friendly
After a long-anticipated break in the weather and as the last bits of snow melt from lawns this week, Northern Michigan residents are likely gearing up to begin work to foster those cheery, green lawns for summer. Two local experts gave the News-Review a...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Environmental Pollution, Lakes and Ponds, Environmental Issues
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Texas explosion: Probe of blast likened to 'archaeological dig'
WEST, Texas — Authorities told residents here Monday to expect a “slow, methodical” investigation into the explosion at a fertilizer plant last week that killed 14 people and injured scores more, as the town continues to take stock of...
Tags: Explosions, Human Interest, Broken Bones, Hospitals and Clinics, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013)
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ANALYSIS-Argentina's soy addiction comes back to bite farmers
Reuters* Toxic cocktail of high inflation, export taxes hurts profits * Country needs more corn cultivation to keep soils healthy * Soy planted on 65 pct of farmland; 50 pct would be ideal * Farmers object to export curbs placed by govt on corn By Hugh...Tags: Argentina, China, Agriculture, Chemical Industry, Science and Technology
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Food-scrap composting finds a home in Howard
Howard Hord considers himself a chef of sorts, but the food he works with is a little past its prime. Using moldy melon rinds, orange peels and other castoff fruit and vegetables from some Howard County kitchens, Hord is "cooking" the first batches of...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Local Government, Baltimore County, Ken Ulman, Howard County
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Bravery In Texas Disaster Was First Response
Some 1,600 miles away from Boston, first responders in West, Texas, also put helping others above their personal safety last week. Many gave their lives doing that. Of the more than a dozen people who died in the explosion of the West Fertilizer Co....Tags: Chemical Industry, Disasters and Accidents
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Seaweed Farming in the Connecticut Sound Could Help Grow the Economy
A 21st century riddle for you: What's slimy, green and brown, sometimes smelly and disgusting, but also a potentially wonderful anti-pollution tool that's good to eat and could turn into an economic pot of gold for Connecticut? The answer, of course, is...
Tags: Gardening, Science, Chemical Industry, Seafood, Biology
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Prayer and waiting in Texas town rocked by blast
WEST, Texas (AP) — The First Baptist Church in the tiny Texas town where a fertilizer plant exploded is still off-limits, so the Rev. John Crowder put folding chairs in a hay pasture and improvised a pulpit on a truck flatbed. At the elementary...
Tags: Explosions, Human Interest, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Chemical Industry, Emergency Incidents
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In Texas, mourning those on front lines of blast
WEST, Texas — Residents here know the code of sirens, the language of a small-town Texas fire department. As the big fire trucks lumber along, one blast means they're heading to a small blaze; two means a fire drill or meeting. Then things get...
Tags: Explosions, Social Media, Vehicles, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Services and Shopping
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Czech Stop a comfort stop in West, Texas
WEST, Texas – Most every small town in America has a local eatery that embodies its heart and soul – not to mention its stomach – a place where workers know the first names and the orders of customers by heart. In this tiny community...Tags: Explosions, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Chemical Industry, Emergency Incidents
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An outpouring in West after explosion at fertilizer plant
WEST, Texas — At the Veterans of Foreign Wars post just a few blocks past City Hall here, the donated mattresses form a stack that nearly touches the ceiling. Rows of folding tables are piled high with clothes, and the porch out back has enough...
Tags: Explosions, Human Interest, Chemical Industry, Politics, Emergency Incidents
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CORRECTED-Texas fertilizer company didn't heed disclosure rules before blast
Reuters(Corrects rental truck brand used by McVeigh was from Ryder, not U-Haul, in paragraph 20) By Joshua Schneyer, Ryan McNeill and Janet Roberts NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small...Tags: Explosions, Health, Chemical Industry, Health and Safety at Work, Emergency Incidents
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Texas fertilizer disaster: Willie Nelson to hold benefit concert
Los Angeles TimesThe day after a fertilizer plant exploded in central Texas, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 160, country music icon Willie Nelson announced he would hold a benefit concert for the victims. Nelson was born about five miles from the site...Tags: Chemical Industry
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