Word: cleanups
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...drugs, it is unlikely that it would be able to get much traction: the countryside is rough, stuffed with guerrilla fighters and lacking the fuel depots, airfields and roads that a modern army needs. Giving Colombia five times the resources would not make the cleanup go five times as fast. It would be like giving your five-year-old a Sun workstation to do her math homework. And no one in Washington wants U.S. soldiers drawn into a long jungle battle. A State Department website on Colombia features as special link that highlights the concern: "Why Colombia Is Not Vietnam...
Supporters of the river's cleanup effort acknowledge that the most difficult steps will come in the final stages of the cleanup...
...preparation of land in Allston for use by the University will include purchasing easement rights from current owners, environmental cleanup of land formerly under industrial use, moving current tenants and highway onramps, and beginning a long-term planning process for the land, according to Professor of Government Gary L. King, who presented the report of the Resource Committee at yesterday's Faculty meeting...
...Greenwood. But successors often pay for their predecessors’ actions. Many of the current stockholders of the Mobil Oil Company, which recently was held liable for polluting the water of Cyril, Oklahoma, were not alive in 1947 when the first pollution began. But they have to pay the cleanup costs nevertheless. Just because taxpayers did not themselves participate in the riot does not mean the city is freed from legal or moral responsibility. But reconciliation is best if it comes from the heart, not a lawsuit...
...Tuesday, the administration announced it was withdrawing tough new limits (set by an outgoing President Clinton) on the amount of arsenic allowable in drinking water, pending further review. Wednesday, the administration said it would seek to undo regulations forcing more hard-rock miners in the West to post cleanup bonds. And Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney told "Hardball" that if it's emissions environmentalists are worried about, his energy-policy task force may well recommend that more nuclear power be part of the solution...