Hazardous material teams were being rushed to the scene, an emergency management official said.

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Delaine says many of them come from the coastal oil industry and contain potentially hazardous material.

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Now, such teams are also called out for hazardous material accidents, weapons of mass destruction and wide-area searches.

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Ethanol producers are likely to have particular problems because of the hazardous material certifications required to haul the loads.

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Across the Gulf Coast, Guardsmen are supporting local, state, and federal authorities in a number of ways, from reconnaissance to hazardous material training.

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There didn't appear to be any hazardous-material crews, and no neighbors were evacuated.

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Recycling hazardous electronic equipment for material recovery (e.g. rare earth, and precious and other metals) in a manner which can substantially mitigate the hazards, entails significant costs.

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But if the material is reclassified as a hazardous waste, coal groups say that coal ash would be irreversibly stigmatized and any ancillary use of it would evaporate.

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