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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...
The 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...
The 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...
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.
If the 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.