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...essential ingredients for the great cleanup are all there. Every sort of pollutant, from heavy metals like mercury and cadmium to heated water from electricity plants, is defined and limited. The bill provides up to $18 billion for municipalities to build new sewage-treatment plants, with 75% of the money being paid by Washington and 25% by states and cities. It would finance the removal of toxic sludge from river and lake bottoms and also provide low-interest loans to small businesses for antipollution equipment...
...energy for their size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel and cadmium, zinc and silver, or sodium and sulfur-have greater energy density, but they have not yet proved practical either, largely because of high costs...
...humans. First came the so-called Minamata Disease, caused by a fertilizer plant dumping methyl mercury into a bay near the town of Minamata; it produced in its victims an appalling array of eye and brain damages. Another painful new disease called itai-itai (literally, ouch-ouch) derived from cadmium flowing into the Jintsu River from a mining and smelting factory. Its symptoms: a softening and finally a breaking of the bones. Then, two years ago, a wave of smog-associated complaints began afflicting Tokyo residents. So far, at least 30,000 victims have been reported in the capital...
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...