Word: adl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opinion is that the law is still on the side of the city," said City Manager Robert W. Healy, who compared the ADL case to a tennis match going back and forth...
...Department of Defense (DOD) has relegated this job to private corporations, subject to "stringent" safety precautions, such as Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL), located in Cambridge. A controversy arises in this seemingly simple set-up when it becomes apparent that the DOD regulations do not take responsibility for potential hazards to researchers and surrounding communities and that the citizens of Cambridge will not tolerate the risks of "supertoxic" chemical weapons research. Furthermore, ADL has dealt inconsistently with the city government and has misled the public...
...light of a State Superior Court decision, on February 26, upholding Cambridge's newly enacted halt on all "toxic and hazardous substances" research, the fact that Cambridge is the third most densely populated city in the nation clinches the argument against ADL's nerve gas testing However, the contradiction of, in effect, seeking out danger in the name of safety, only brings into focus a national issue of which Cambridge is an extreme case...
Cambridge's solution is no "average" scenario, no paradigm panacea to be adopted by other communities, and we should be wary of spotlighting the extreme population density argument. However, the fact that the DOD regulations, the only federal restrictions regarding "supertoxic" chemicals, could allow ADL to begin such research in a city with so many people per square mile clearly earmarks these inadequate regulations for national-level overhaul...
...Department of Defense does not have a monopoly on the mismanagement and problems of the chemical testing issue. ADL has itself been cited f - inconsistency. According to The Cambridge Chronicle, the city councilors were "particularly upset about how ADL released information about the testing in a piecemeal fashion." The report submitted in late 1984 to the Commissioner of Health and Hospitals by a specially created Scientific Advisory Committee cites "uncertainties" complicating a full risk analysis of ADL's Levins Laboratory. On each of six separate occasion in as many months, ADL indicated radically different maximum amounts is of toxic chemicals...