hazardous
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The updated permit has also allowed the site to temporarily store and move some hazardous and clinical waste, though these materials will not be burned at the energy recovery facility.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
“This case is about what made that crisis preventable — and about accountability for families left to carry the cost of someone else’s failure to safely maintain hazardous chemicals next door to their neighborhoods.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
We are in a cycle where instant success is expected, and that has made things even more hazardous.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Thousands of people who live near a damaged hazardous chemical tank in Southern California still can’t return home, even as officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion had largely passed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
It was bad form to cut loose in the middle, and then also perhaps hazardous; Jack had once told me no one had ever done that before to Dennis Hoagland.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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