Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional watchdogs claim that when EPA finally does tackle a waste site, it seeks only a stop-gap solution to the chemical seepage. When a dump is cleaned up, its wastes are often merely shifted to other locales, "which themselves may become Superfund sites," the OTA report says. "Risks are often transferred from one community to another and to future generations...
This attitude toward the slow pace of dump cleanups is part of a broad public sense that Government is failing to respond adequately to environmental concerns in general. Some 45% of those polled said that current laws to protect the environment do not go far enough, while 29% are satisfied with them and 16% think they go "too far." Fully 63% feel that even the inadequate governmental protections are not being enforced strictly enough by the agencies involved...
...quadrangle also served as the College pigpen and garbage dump prior to the Kirkland administration. Historical accounts say University Minor was rat-infested and dangerous...
...down where he couldn't stand up, I couldn't stand his suffering, so I called the vet. Then after he was gone I called the boys, and they said if ever a dog deserved a decent burial, this one did. I was gonna take him out to the dump, but then I said we'd just come out here to the old hunting ground. We all loved these hills and hollers, men and dogs. Still...
...unconscionably pusillanimous approach, the Maryland State Police have started hiding in dump trucks and yellow lawn mowers alongside the highway to catch speeders, according to The Washington Post. The federal government has been putting the heat on Maryland to crack down after a study earlier this year found 76.2 percent of drivers were speeding. That compares to 56 percent nationwide and 44 percent in Massachusetts...