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Once completed, the system will handle effluent waste from the Science Center, Mallinckrodt, and other laboratories north of the Yard...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Chemical Wastes | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...hold a glass under the kitchen faucet and savor Moskva water straight. The citizens of Singapore and Amsterdam, too, will shortly be able to drink from their polluted rivers. Between the stream and the lip, in all these cases, is a remarkable process developed in France that changes effluent into elixir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: New Water | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Development of tax incentives -- like taxes on sulfur emissions and effluent discharges -- as a means of curbing industrial pollution...

Author: By Jeremy S. Bluhm, | Title: Roberts Helps Devise McGovern Ecology Policy | 10/10/1972 | See Source »

...once interviewed for a Raidership by Edward Finch Cox, now married to Tricia Nixon. Unhappily, the Raiders' work is marred by contradictions and errors. The Du Pont-owned Chambers Works in Deepwater, N.J., which makes a variety of chemical products, does not discharge 100 billion gallons of effluent daily into the Delaware; the figure is 100 million gallons of dilute effluent-still no small amount. The report complains that the Du Pont company contributes only $5,000,000 to charity annually, when in 1969, for example, it could have taken a deduction for $35 million; at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Elephant and the Chickens | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...change? With as many as 300,000 applications, processing would be impossible to accomplish in any reasonable time. At the core of the problem was the fact that the guidelines for effluent controls bombed out: it was impossible to come up with a standard which would fit every waterway involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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