Word: cleanup
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This belated recognition came as the President endorsed a January report on acid rain by Drew Lewis, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, and William Davis, former Ontario premier. Their investigation diplomatically divided responsibility for the problem between the two nations, but recommended that the U.S. take bigger steps toward a cleanup: a $5 billion, five-year effort, with costs split by the Government and business, to develop technology for burning coal more cleanly. The huge quantity of coal burned by the industrial and electrical plants of the Ohio Valley is a major source of airborne sulfur oxides that return to earth...
Complaining that Pulley's cleanup ignored provisions against subcontracting union work, labor leaders rasped that the project, which saved the agency about $480, should have been cleared with them. Transit officials defended the agency's right to work with volunteers. When the eagle scout was summoned as a witness in an arbitration hearing last week, at least one union leader was faintly defensive. Richard Ries, business manager for Division 757 of the Amalgamated Transit Union and a former eagle scout, allowed that "it sounds like we're taking a broadsword to the scouts." But sometimes, he insisted, good deeds...
...enormous success organizing and fundraising in working-class neighborhoods on the hazardous-waste issue, but on the national level Democrats seem either ignorant of the potential of this issue, or afraid to be seen as No-Nukes flower children. Democrats have become accustomed to expressing support for environmental cleanup with the endorsement of Greenpeace, instead of talking about how dumping affects everyone...
Toxic-waste cleanup is just one issue that could be used by the Democrats to present a vision of a unified hard-working America represented by the Democratic Party against the moneyed Republican special interests. Pentagon reform and arms control framed in economic terms, gun control, the Bradely-Gephardt tax bill, and innovative education and jobs programs could all be presented the same...
...dump may indeed be part of the solution. The federal Superfund pays Casmalia Resources to take wastes collected in the cleanup of the notorious Stringfellow Acid Pits near Los Angeles. But even this up-to-date site is a problem for the 300 people who live just over the hills in the town of Casmalia. A little more than a year ago, it seems, fumes started drifting down over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire...