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BETWEEN 1940 AND 1975, industries have dumped 500 million gallons of hazardous waste all over Massachusetts, according to the estimates of the public interest groups that have been pushing the state to accelerate the clean-up of toxic waste dumps. That is enough waste to make more than 100 Love Canals. These poisons are distributed at an estimated one to two thousand sites throughout the state--the exact number is not even known yet. And at the current rate of public and private clean-up efforts it will be 50 to 100 years before these hazardous waste dumps are cleaned...
...referendum will give Massachusetts voters the chance to get the clean-up effort off the ground. It is an opportunity we can not afford to miss. If passed, the referendum will require testing of all public water supplies by 1988, investigation of 2000 potentially hazardous sites in the next four years and clean-up or control of the toxins at any site within four years after it is investigated. Already an estimated 20 people contract cancers related to environmental hazards every day in Massachusetts, and 41 communities have been forced to close their drinking water supplies. There is no time...
...potentially cancer-causing asbestos is the predominant insulation material in many Harvard buildings, and the University's clean-up program goes above and beyond the letter of the law. However, an asbestos scare--something usually associated with heavy industry plants--has no place at Harvard. While the health hazard is under control, the hazard to the University's relation with its students remains...
What needs to be addressed is not the negligence in this specific incident, but the Dunbar Lab's on-going policy of not keeping students informed of potential health hazards and clean-up efforts...
...insulation of the University's buildings has deteriorated, that between the University's clean-up program and its students works too well. It is the latter that is particularly hazardous to maintaining an open, informed and healthy community...