hazardous waste
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Manufacturing batteries is “extremely energy intensive,” involves more dangerous chemicals and results in more hazardous waste.
At least 37 people were arrested Wednesday at a homeless encampment in Oxnard as officials worked on removing 33 tons of hazardous waste.
From Los Angeles Times
Union Pacific Railroad removed more than 33 tons of debris and hazardous waste, totaling 11 truckloads, according to the release.
From Los Angeles Times
Also, when Camp Century was decommissioned around five years after Project Iceworm was scrapped, the Army left hazardous waste behind, such as up to 52,000 gallons of diesel and radioactive materials, residues from the small nuclear reactor that had powered the base.
From Los Angeles Times
The arrests come over a year after the prosecutor's office in the port city of Durres opened investigations into more than 100 containers of hazardous waste, which allegedly came from a Turkish-owned steel mill in Elbasan.
From Barron's
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