Environment

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In this Feb. 24, 2014 photo, Ronnie Baumann, right, a long-time employee at the former Newport Chemical Depot, and Leonard Helt, deputy director of the Newport Chemical Reuse Authority, look over the area where VX chemical agent used to be manufactured near Newport, Ind. Bill Laubernds, executive director of the Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority, has since 2009 been trying to build a new future at the Newport site, complete with businesses, industrial investment and natural, open space in the confines of the fenced-in expanse that used to house part of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile. The last truck filled with VX left the depot in 2008. (AP Photo/The Journal & Courier, John Terhune) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES

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In this Feb. 24, 2014 photo, one of 52 abandoned munitions magazines on the grounds of the former Newport Chemical Depot is shown near Newport, Ind. Bill Laubernds, executive director of the Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority, has since 2009 been trying to build a new future at the Newport site, complete with businesses, industrial investment and natural, open space in the confines of the fenced-in expanse that used to house part of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile. The last truck filled with VX left the depot in 2008. (AP Photo/The Journal & Courier, John Terhune) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES

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In this Feb. 24, 2014 photo, a dilapidated security shack on the grounds of the former Newport Chemical Depot near Newport, Ind. Bill Laubernds, executive director of the Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority, has since 2009 been trying to build a new future at the Newport site, complete with businesses, industrial investment and natural, open space in the confines of the fenced-in expanse that used to house part of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile. The last truck filled with VX left the depot in 2008. (AP Photo/The Journal & Courier, John Terhune) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES

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In this Feb. 24, 2014 photo, Bill Laubernds talks the reuse plan for the former Newport Chemical Depot near Newport, Ind. Laubernds, executive director of the Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority, has since 2009 been trying to build a new future at the Newport site, complete with businesses, industrial investment and natural, open space in the confines of the fenced-in expanse that used to house part of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile. The last truck filled with VX left the depot in 2008. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)

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Heavy equipment moves debris on the western edge of the mudslide where it covers Highway 530 Wednesday morning, March 26, 2014, east of Oso, Wash. Washington authorities on Wednesday reduced to 90 the number of people missing from the community wiped out by the mudslide. (AP Photo/The Herald, Mark Mulligan)

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Heavy equipment moves debris on the western edge of the mudslide where it covers Highway 530 Wednesday morning, March 26, 20145, east of Oso, Wash. Washington authorities on Wednesday reduced to 90 the number of people missing from the community wiped out by the mudslide. (AP Photo/The Herald, Mark Mulligan)

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Rescue workers and work crews toil at the western edge of the mudslide where it covers Highway 530 Wednesday morning, March 26, 2013, east of Oso, Wash. Search crews using dogs, bulldozers and their bare hands kept slogging through the mess of broken wood and mud. (AP Photo/The Herald, Mark Mulligan) Photo taken 20140326