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CSX's freight train carrying crude oil derails in West Virginia, US
2015-02-17 01:00:00| Railway Technology
A CSX freight train carrying crude oil has derailed in West Virginia, US, setting rail cars ablaze, destroying a house and forcing the evacuation of two towns.
CSX oil train derails in West Virginia; 14 cars on fire, towns evacuated: media
2015-02-16 22:50:54| Railroads - Topix.net
A CSX Corp train hauling crude derailed in West Virginia, setting 14 cars ablaze and forcing the evacuation of two nearby towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days, local media reported on Monday. At least one of the tank cars careened into the Kanawha River another plowed into a house before bursting into flames, wvgazette.com cited Lawrence Messina, communications director for the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, as saying in a report on its website.
Mississippi, West Virginia toughest on school immunizations
2015-02-10 23:02:28| Biotech - Topix.net
Pediatric residents from the Batson Children's Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center wear stickers calling for the lawmakers to support immunizations during a visit to the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, in Jackson, Miss. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mississippi has the highest measles immunization rate in the country for children entering kindergarten.
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West Virginia House passes energy act repeal overwhelmingly
2015-01-23 18:51:20| Energy - Topix.net
The portfolio requires generating 25 percent of electricity with renewable or alternative power sources by 2025. Some coal-burning technologies qualify.
After the warmest year on record, West Virginia feels the heat
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Fridays news that 2014 was the Earths hottest year on record could not have been timelier for West Virginia, where a dissident member of the Board of Education recently altered new teaching standards to reflect his personal doubts about climate change. The board member, L. Wade Linger Jr., didnt like the sound of a sixth-grade study plan mentioning the rise in global temperatures over the past century. So he had the language changed to: rise and fall. The temperature rises and falls all...
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