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...Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage. "I feel trapped and stifled," says Pyle, 48, who was forced by a chronic heart ailment...
...from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups oppose the project as hazardous to the park's ecosystem, and President Clinton has imposed a moratorium on new mining in the area, which could impede the project's start-up. Among the danger signs: contamination of two nearby creeks with poisons, including arsenic, from previous gold mines. The critics want UNESCO to add Yellowstone to its list of endangered sites and thereby increase pressure on Crown Butte Mines, Inc., to drop plans for the new mine. "A worse site could not have been imagined," says Sue Glidden, co-owner of the general store...
Some residents dismiss their neighbors' fears as overblown. While arsenic can be a fast-acting killer, the form found in gold-bearing ore is far less potent than the fabled poison and remains inert until it comes into contact with air or water. And few researchers have studied--much less established--possible links between long-term exposure to gold-mine tailings and damage to human health. "It's all debatable," says Dan Ziarkowski, an expert on hazardous materials for the state Environmental Protection Agency. True, chronic exposure to arsenic has been connected to cancer and kidney disease. But, Ziarkowski says...
House Democrats and moderate Republicans joined forces to defeat 17 measures designed to stop new EPA rule-making for one year.Part of a $79.4 billion bill that funds environmental, housing, veterans, and space programs for next year, the amendments would have halted regulations that keep drinking water free of arsenic, reduce toxic emissions for oil refineries, check pesticides in food, and control sewage overflows. GOP freshman Dave Macintosh, who chaired former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways...
DIED. PRISCILLA LANE, 77, swing-era singer and screen star; in Andover, Massachusetts. The upbeat blond was the most successful of the three performing Lane sisters. After crooning with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Lane appeared in movies such as Four Daughters (1938), opposite a brooding John Garfield, and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), with a frenetic Cary Grant...