Word: dioxins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...environmentalists say dioxin and scores of other chemicals pose a threat to human fertility -- as scary an issue as any policymakers have faced. But in the absence of conclusive evidence, what are policymakers to do? What measures can they take to handle a problem whose magnitude is unknown...
...again, off-again dioxin scare is, well, on-again. An Environmental Protection Agency report says the chemical, in all likelihood, causes cancer and even in trace amounts it may put the immune, reproductive and developmental systems at risk. "We've gone through a period in which the public has pooh-poohed other potential dangers," says TIME senior editor Charles Alexander. "People have said we've over-reacted to alar and radon and asbestos. This report goes against that trend. It says that dioxin really is dangerous...
...Dioxin Danger...
...alarming preliminary report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency warned that low levels of exposure to dioxin, an environmental contaminant already linked to various cancers, may also impair the immune system as well as fetal development. Dioxin is a product of burning chlorine-based chemicals...
...House, one such measure, the Chlorine Zero Discharge Act of 1993, represents an important step toward ridding our nation's waters of hazardous chlorine-based pollutants like dioxin, which is reported to cause damage in undeveloped fetuses. The amendment bans the discharge of organochlorines, the product of chlorine-based bleaching in the manufacture of pulp and paper. Proposals like these can strengthen the Clean Water Act and help create a safer environment...