Word: tars
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...said the children’s center will investigate the effects of mixed metals on children living at the Tar Creek Superfund in Oklahoma...
Rebecca Jim, executive leader of Local Environmental Action Demanded (L.E.A.D.), a non-profit advocacy organization in Oklahoma, said Tar Creek is the oldest and largest Superfund site. She added that the EPA has already spent over $100 million in efforts to clean up the site...
Residents of the Tar Creek Superfund, a mining waste site, are exposed to mixtures of lead, manganese, cadmium and arsenic—the toxicities of which are known individually, but not as mixtures, Hu said...
There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. It's really mining oil, not producing it in a conventional way. Consequently, only about a million barrels a day come out of the tar sands. And it takes several years to ramp up that production...
...next weekend saw the Crimson travel to Chapel Hill to face No. 21 North Carolina. Building on momentum from the week before and behind several strong performances by Grant, the Crimson upset the Tar Hills...