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As the only woman in her bomb- disposal unit in Afghanistan, Army Sergeant Rebekah Havrilla said she had learned to endure sexual harassment from her team leader and contempt from the captain who commanded the unit.
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Accounting changes that would require companies to report more of their leases as assets and liabilities may encourage businesses to structure shorter-term rental agreements that could hamper the ability of lessors to predict cash flows, according to Fitch Ratings.
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The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered the authority of federal administrative agencies, upholding Federal Communications Commission deadlines for local zoning authorities considering applications for new wireless facilities.
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Gina McCarthy won the support of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in the second party-line vote in a day on a cabinet-level nominee of President Barack Obama.
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A U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing board ruling has called into question whether Edison International’s shuttered San Onofre plant in California will resume operations in the coming months.
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Senate Democrats will try again next week to advance the nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, after Republicans boycotted a committee vote on her this week.
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Within minutes of a blaze starting at West Fertilizer Co. on the evening of April 17, residents a third of a mile away on Main Street in West, Texas, gathered in their front yards to watch firefighters at the plant.
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Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee blocked a vote on confirming Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency by boycotting a meeting called to consider the nomination.
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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will investigate the deadly blast at a Texas fertilizer plant as its chairman presses regulators on chemical- safety laws that would apply to similar facilities.
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Texas officials, appearing at a hearing on last month’s deadly blast at a fertilizer plant, defended the state’s oversight and said regulations are adequate to prevent future catastrophes.
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