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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, Dr. Brian Moench stands next to a television, as it shows a heavy cloud of black smoke coming from Stericycle, a medical waste management company, during a medical waste incinerator protest at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. A medical waste disposal company has identified a potential new home for a new incinerator in the Utah’s remote west desert. Doctors, families and others have pressed Stericycle, Inc. to close its North Salt Lake facility, saying it blankets the adjacent neighborhood with toxic smog. Company representatives say the facility is compliant with state regulations as it appeals a violation it received in 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this May 30, 2013, file photo, shows the Stericycle medical waste incineration plant in North Salt Lake City. A medical waste disposal company has identified a potential new home for a new incinerator in the Utah’s remote west desert. Doctors, families and others have pressed Stericycle, Inc. to close its North Salt Lake facility, saying it blankets the adjacent neighborhood with toxic smog. Company representatives say the facility is compliant with state regulations as it appeals a violation it received in 2013. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred, File) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; MAGS OUT
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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, Ginny Butler holds her son Finn during a medical waste incinerator protest at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. A medical waste disposal company has identified a potential new home for a new incinerator in the Utah’s remote west desert. Doctors, families and others have pressed Stericycle, Inc. to close its North Salt Lake facility, saying it blankets the adjacent neighborhood with toxic smog. Company representatives say the facility is compliant with state regulations as it appeals a violation it received in 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This April 22, 2014 file photo provided by NASA shows a photo of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and was photographed by one of two spacewalking astronauts. On Sunday, May 18, 2014, after a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was for return to Earth. The astronauts released it using the International Space Station’s big robot arm. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2013, file photo, small coffee producer Hector Perez show coffee beans damaged by the roya fungus in San Gaspar Vivar, Guatemala. The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to help Central American farmers fight a devastating coffee disease _ and to keep the price of your morning cup down. A fungus called coffee rust has already caused more than $1 billion in damage across the Latin American region. It is especially deadly to Arabica coffee, the bean that makes up most high-end, specialty coffees, and it is already affecting the price of some of those coffees in the United States. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
