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Last week state and city officials took American Smelting to court, charging that from 1969 to 1971 the plant emitted enormous amounts of lead, cadmium, arsenic and zinc into the air. The suit asks a fine...
...Legislation to permit the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor the disposal of such toxic wastes as mercury, cadmium and arsenic on land or underground...
Laggard States. The main problem, asserts the Nader group, is the federal program's failure to control industrial effluents. They account for at least 50% of the oxygen-consuming wastes handled by municipal water-treatment plants, many of which are thus overloaded. They also include very dangerous contaminants (arsenic, cadmium, mercury), which few treatment plants can remove from drinking water. Even advanced plants, says the report, may be unable to handle the estimated 500 new chemicals that industry develops each year...
...just not going to ship any more herbicides over to Vietnam for use. But the situation is not so simple-the government recently has been buying Blue at a very rapid rate, and is now reported to have stockpiled a supply of Blue (the crop-destruction chemical containing arsenic) to last for the next five years...
Blue is used for crop destruction primarily, acting very effectively against grasses and rice. Blue contains derivatives of arsenic compounds, and the HAC is now working out laboratory tests which should be able to detect traces of these compounds in human hair; that way, the interaction of the herbicides with the human food chain should be clarified, and some of the long-lasting effects of the herbicides may become known...