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Blue Ridge plant in Canton is still a risk
- Asheville Citizen-Times
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ASHEVILLE – The Blue Ridge Paper Products plant with its stores of chemicals used to bleach paper is “an accident waiting to happen,” a spokesman for a North Carolina watchdog group said Wednesday. |
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Panel on hazardous waste: Clue neighbors in
- The Charlotte News & Observer
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Neighbors of hazardous waste storehouses should get regular notices, and the facilities should have 24-security or electronic fire detection systems, according to a task force convened by the governor. |
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After EQ, Task Force Focuses on Chemical Dangers
- abc11tv.com
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(APEX) - One month after the EQ hazardous waste facility in Apex went up in smoke, a government task force could rake an entire industry over the coals. |
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Hazardous-waste bill clears committee
- The News & Observer
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RALEIGH - A bill that would require more frequent inspections and closer monitoring for companies that store hazardous waste won the approval of a House committee on Thursday. |
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Political maneuvering won't make people learn to like dirty air
- Fayetteville Observer
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N.C. was 2nd in air toxins during 2004
- The Greensboro News And Record
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North Carolina power plants and other heavy industries released more pollutants that affect respiratory systems than all but one other state in 2004, according to a report released Tuesday. |
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Study: N.C. plant pollution among worst in 2004
- Associated Press
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GREENSBORO—North Carolina ranked second behind Ohio for the most pollutants released into the air by power plants and other heavy industries in 2004, according to a study released this week. |
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Report: North Carolina second largest releaser of respiratory toxicants in U.S.
- The Asheville Citizen-Times
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North Carolina ranked second in the country in 2004 for total air releases of toxic pollution suspected to cause respiratory illness, according to a report released today by the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group. |
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Safer in the open
- Newsobserver.com
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It's hard to believe that EQ Industrial Services, Inc. is working to keep documents about the operations of the Apex chemical plant under wraps. |
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