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A report by a structures specialist who responded to the collapse says it appears support columns were not properly anchored to the floor.
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The university received about $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to study sustainable watersheds and implement different ways to support graduate students involved in the research.
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A spill from Marathon Petroleum unleashed around 165,000 gallons of crude oil in and around Edwardsville.
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“The long-lasting impact of this oil spill could be detrimental if not properly and quickly remediated,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said.
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Residents reported a strong smell of gas, and the city said the odor was a result of the leak.
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There aren’t local or statewide rules in Illinois ensuring workers in the nearly 30 warehouses surrounding the Amazon facility that collapsed in December will be any safer the next time a tornado strikes the St. Louis region.
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The average estimated cost of a new warehouse building in Edwardsville was more than $16 million in the past five years. A tornado shelter adds less than 2% to that overall cost.
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Six people died when a tornado hit the Amazon warehouse, which labor advocates say highlighted the unsafe working conditions at the company.
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The company “placed profits first instead of the safety of our son and the other families who lost loved ones,” said the mother of Austin McEwen.
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Six Amazon employees were killed in an Edwardsville warehouse during a tornado, raising questions about whether the company did enough to help them.