Word: bayport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another pesticide, Phosvel, has caused paralysis, hallucinations, blurred vision, and dizziness among employees in the Bayport, Texas plant that manufactured the pesticide. Banned from use in the United States, Phosvel was exported to Egypt where it caused death in humans and farm animals that came in contact with...
Typical of the agency's shortcomings, says the subcommittee, is the EPA'S failure to act effectively against leptophos, an insecticide that has recently been implicated in an outbreak of nervous disorders among employees at a plant operated by the Velsicol Chemical Corp. in Bayport, Texas. The company, notes the report, failed to inform the EPA of the illnesses for five months. But the EPA ignored equally compelling evidence that the chemical was dangerous. In 1973 and 1974, while the EPA was evaluating leptophos, it received repeated warnings from scientists that the compound was neurotoxic, or capable...
...They spend the first weeks off the job doing all the long-put-off chores-fixing up the house, puttering with the car. But after a while everything is fixed, and there is nothing to do. Says Dave Lee, 25, who lost his job with a window manufacturer in Bayport, Minn.: "I read magazines, I wash the car, I help my wife clean, I shovel snow. I just try to pass the time. It's 24 hours a day, and it's terrible...