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1. Navigating New Jersey’s interstates
(Life/Style)

... kicked up a sizeable piece of retread several yards in front of me. (Retread and other potentially hazardous pieces of debris are a constant challenge. This morning, for example, I counted over a dozen ...

2. Senate panel approves bill that would raise liability for N.J. pollution damages to $1 billion
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the discharge of petroleum products or other hazardous substances. The current cap, which is $50 million, was set with the law's enactment in 1976. The panel today also increased the liability cap for ...

3. U.S. EPA delays improvements to Pa. power plant polluting Warren County
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of fine particles must be reduced, Martin said. The commissioner also said improved sulfur dioxide and particle control also would reduce other hazardous air pollutant emissions, including hydrochloric ...

4. Geothermal heating and cooling: Clean, reliable, sustainable, cost effective
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... clean and sustainable energy source. There are no hazardous byproducts, nor are there dangerous residual gases such as carbon monoxide. The safety concerns associated with combustion-based furnaces are ...

5. ‘Splice' well grounded in the fundamentals of Shelley's Frankenstein
(Entertainment/Movies)

... that is hazardous to cross, and like our country, our heroes are not looking. While the movie shows the couple sharing the risks and rewards of their work, it is clearly Elsa who calls the shots. For ...

6. India without justice 25 years since Union Carbide gas leak disaster in Bhopal
(World/International)

... will encourage hazardous corporations to kill more people and get away with anything," said Satinath Sarangi, an activist in Bhopal fighting for the survivors. IPS NEWS AGENCY  ...

7. There should be a Law Not to Allow Dry Cleaners to Open Directly next to Some Other Entities".
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... The Public Needs to Fully Wake-up and Smell the Bona Fide Potential for Nasty Hazardous Environmental Poluted Contaminents in their Coffee! Why are their not laws and regulations to better address this ...

8. Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 strives to ‘REACH’ European parity
(U.S./Nation)

... include compelling manufacturers to develop and submit safety-testing data on any chemicals they produce, and requiring EPA to use this data to identify and rank hazardous chemicals based on a variety ...

9. New EPA rule is an unrealistic way to protect homeowners from lead
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  I certainly recognize that precautions need to be taken to protect small children and pregnant women. But this notion of treating every single job like it involves life-threatening, hazardous waste ...

10. As you head down the Shore, remember the sunscreen
(Health/Healthquest)

... potentially hazardous ingredients." Some of the problems stem from operator error: most people apply less than the recommended amounts and miss spots, but have a false sense of safety after applying the ...

11. Supreme Court is the last place N.J. same-sex marriage issue should be decided
(Opinion/Commentary)

... as hazardous underground storage tanks, school budgets, the death penalty and whether legislators should have more oversight over the actions of the executive branch. But for some reason, on this issue, ...

12. Hazmat specialists! NJIT teaches students what it takes to clean up hazardous wastes
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

Tromping around the classroom in oversized moon suits, a class of disadvantaged, young adults from New Jersey's inner cities recently studied at NJIT how to start a career cleaning up hazardous wastes. ...

13. Hallowed Civil War grounds in New Jersey ... and Finn's Point National Cemetery is unique
(Life/Style)

... as a national cemetery, the remains of POWs were transported to Finn's Point across the river for burial. When weather or ice made trips to the mainland hazardous, it was necessary to bury the bodies on ...

14. New Jersey indicts 7 people for alleged environmental crimes
(N.J./State)

... does not comply with NJDEP and Federal EPA Chemical limits for potable water." A fourth indictment charges Maryland B. Woods, 68, of Newark, with third-degree unlawfully causing a hazardous discharge ...

15. Work begins to cap Global Landfill Superfund site in Middlesex County
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... its National Priorities List, or Superfund, because of the presence of contaminated leachate and the discovery of buried drums containing hazardous waste. Since the 1990s, DEP and EPA have been conducting ...

16. N.J. DEP acts to reduce pollution from Pa. power plant drifting into Warren County
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... year. Martin said the emissions of fine particles must be reduced. He said improved sulfur dioxide and particle control also would reduce other hazardous air pollutant emissions, including hydrochloric ...

17. U.S. EPA awards $2.3 million for N.J. brownfields
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to the EPA, those activities left it heavily contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs and hazardous metals. But the city expects to restore it to the point where it can be used for the market, which will ...

18. Preparing different N.J. fire departments to work together in a major emergency
(Life/Style)

... in Flanders and, through mutual aid, surrounding towns. It is made up of about 50 members, all of whom receive training in fire suppression, rescue, hazardous materials response, homeland security issues ...

19. Tent State University founder Yael Bromberg marches on
(Life/Style)

... Refuge and the state's SuperFund hazardous waste sites. But Bromberg realized she wanted to bring her passion a bit closer to home. In 2003, she became the co-founder of Tent State University, a student ...

20. A bipartisan consensus on nuclear energy
(Opinion/Commentary)

... plants appears essential in order to reduce excessive greenhouse gas emissions and health hazardous pollutants. At one time, we in the Bush administration were optimistic regarding the development of ...