Word: acidizing
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Perhaps yesterday's defoliators should have suggested 2,4,5-T, a potent herbicidal (plant destroying) chemical. Since 1961, American forces have dumped it on five million acres of Vietnam. That's about 12 per cent of the country-property the size of Massachusetts. The chemical-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid-kills jungle, contaminates water, lingers poisonously in the earth, and, incidentally, threatens to cause abnormalities that could eclipse the cruelties of Thalidomide. Thomas Whiteside dramatically documents the case of 2,4,5-T in the February 7, New Yorker...
...November Action Comm?? (NAC) turned yesterday's registra? ?? from dull routine to acid rock...
...filed damage suits of $250,000 against the Muslims for trespassing. Unofficial harassment was even worse. Six cows on the farm were shot and killed. Ray Wyatt, the white Pell City automobile dealer who sold the acreage to the Muslims, began receiving a dozen threatening phone calls a day. Acid was poured on cars in his lot. Then, just before Christmas, his office was ravaged by fire...
...Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...
...surprisingly low $3 billion is all it would take if plants and factories were required to install waste-treatment facilities sufficient to meet existing water standards. A total of only $2 billion would pay for cooling towers to prevent thermal pollution, and $6 billion would bring sediment and acid mine drainage under control. The price of eliminating industrially caused air pollution is somewhat higher because the job must be done on a regular basis. Estimates are that it would cost $600 million a year to curb the sulfur dioxide emitted from power plants and another $100 million annually to clean...