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China has dominated the market for rare earth elements, but US scientists and companies are scrambling to catch up.

"We all live downriver from Hanford," is the message painted on the windows of the Patagonia store in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. It is a reminder of the continuing danger created by the remaining toxic nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in Benton County. Advocates with the nonprofit Hanford Challenge painted the mural to remind people everyone will suffer if the waste seeps into the groundwater and into the Columbia River. ...

The San Diego City Council on Monday is scheduled to discuss the relocation of the Miramar Greenery so the landfill can develop a bigger "Organics Processing Facility," or OPF.

A Knoxville-based environmental group is voicing health and safety concerns about the development of a landfill for radioactive waste from the Y12 Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge. For six decades, Y12 has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium. Tanvi Kardile, coordinator for the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, said her group is raising concerns to the community and lawmakers about what it sees as the environmental hazards and public health risks that come with creating a landfill for toxic waste. ...

For hundreds of workers at Cooks Venture in Jay and Tahlequah, this is their last day on the job. The company has shut down all of it's poultry processing facilities