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☆ The US never banned asbestos. These workers are paying the price.
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Kathleen Mcgrory | Neil Bedi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +39 min
But protocols failed to match reality at the Niagara Falls plant, according to more than a dozen workers. In addition to those signature diseases, which are rare even among asbestos workers, the tiny strands can harm the body in other ways. In the 15 years that followed, congressional attempts to ban asbestos would continue to fall short. OSHA declined to make an official available for an on-the-record interview or comment on ProPublica's findings at the Niagara Falls plant. At the OxyChem plant in Wichita, union president Keith Peacock said he was comfortable with the way asbestos was handled.
☆ Sailors have long complained about jet fuel seeping into their water on US Navy aircraft carriers and other warships. Here's how that can even happen.
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
The crew of a US Navy aircraft carrier recently discovered jet fuel contaminating the water supply. In doing this, the crew has to physically connect the ship's potable water system to its fuel oil system through piping. Aligning the potable water system and the fuel system involves opening valves that are normally locked shut in order to allow the two systems to connect. The fuel system is supposed to be depressurized, and the potable system should be pressurized. "Normally, if you flush out your fuel oil tanks — or your fuel oil system, any part of your fuel oil system — you should be watching for this problem, because you've connected the two systems.
☆ Radioactive waste was found at an elementary school playground near a site where nuclear weapons were made in WWII
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A report found high levels of radioactive contamination at an elementary school in Missouri. Jana Elementary school is located near a creek that was contaminated in the 1940s and '50s. The report found radioactive contamination inside and outside the school building. Samples of soil, dust, and plant materials at the Jana Elementary School in the town of Florissant were collected in August for testing. Boston Chemical's investigation found several types of radioactive contamination were present at levels that far exceeded their expectations or acceptable levels.
☆ Biden's comment that his son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq' caught attention. Here's why he would say that.
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Some publications have seized on Joe Biden's statement that his son "lost his life in Iraq." But Biden has long tied the toxic burn pits his son was exposed to during his military service to his brain cancer. "I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Conspicuous Service Medal, and lost his life in Iraq. He said then that he became aware of the possible link while reading, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers," by Joseph Hickman. Biden said his grandson, who was seated next to the girl, lost his father "to the same burn pits."
☆ Chinese researchers clone an Arctic wolf in 'landmark' conservation project
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Cnn'S Beijing Bureau | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
"After two years of painstaking efforts, the arctic wolf was cloned successfully. The Arctic wolf, also known as the white wolf or polar wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra, in Canada's northern Arctic Archipelago. Sinogene launched its Arctic wolf cloning project in 2020, in collaboration with the polar theme park Harbin Polarland, it said in a statement posted on the Twitter-like platform Weibo. The company said in its Weibo post that a second cloned arctic wolf is expected to be born soon. The cloned Maya is now living with her beagle surrogate mother, and will later be housed in Harbin Polarland, open to the public.
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