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...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...
...program with our paper suppliers that will significantly reduce a troubling side effect of magazine production that has plagued publishers. To whiten magazine stock, paper plants have long used a chlorine bleaching process. In 1985 the Environmental Protection Agency discovered that this procedure produces traces of dioxin, a highly toxic chemical, in waste water at the plants. Looking for ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce any detectable levels of dioxin. Most of the paper in this magazine is now produced that way. We have asked our other...
What can be done? Predictably, the two sides in the debate mostly talk past each other, with environmentalists stressing the dangers and water providers focusing on costs and the inflexibility of the laws. For example, the EPA requires testing for dioxin, a possible human carcinogen, but, argues Wayne Kern of the North Dakota department of health, "the industries that are common sources of dioxin just do not exist in North Dakota...