Word: dioxin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelation. In testimony last month before a House subcommittee investigating mismanagement at the Environmental Protection Agency, Midwest Regional Director Valdas Adamkus accused John Hernandez, EPA's acting administrator until he resigned last month, of allowing Dow Chemical Co. to censor the agency's 1981 draft report on dioxin contamination in Michigan, including two rivers and a bay near Dow's Midland plant. Particularly alarming to Adamkus was the deletion of one of the draft's conclusions that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination" in the waterways...
...part, Waste Management is a victim of heightened visibility brought on by the dioxin contamination of Times Beach, Mo., and the scandal in the Environmental Protection Agency over the program to clean up toxic wastes. Yet the company has been the target of a number of lawsuits, and it has been found guilty of price fixing in Georgia. Says Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan: "They are always saying the same thing, that it's just a technical mistake. What it is is corporate irresponsibility...
...midweek the "fresh start" fizzled. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer, who heads one of the six congressional panels investigating the agency, charged that Hernandez personally intervened to allow Dow Chemical Co. to edit a July 1981 agency report about dioxin contamination of two rivers and a bay near its Midland, Mich., plant. EPA officials agreed to Dow's suggested deletions of critical passages linking the deadly poison to fertility problems and birth defects, as well as the conclusion that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination" in the waterways...
...tried to take advantage of the rising public concern over hazardous wastes. Lawmakers introduced three bills designed to tighten federal control of the poisons and close the loopholes detailed in an alarming new congressional report. The EPA weighed in with its own announcement tightening controls on dioxin and other toxic substances. Compiled during three years by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the new study warns that 255 million to 275 million tons of chemical poisons are being dumped in the U.S. every year, a ton for every person. It estimates that it will cost from $10 billion...
...John Constable, associate clinical professor of Surgery, who attended the conference, said there is "sufficient evidence that unnecessary exposure to dioxin should be rigorously avoided," but additional studies are needed...