Word: noxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian government has been notoriously slow in prosecuting polluters, even slower in legislating to protect the environment. Noxious airborne chemicals continue to suffocate great swaths of Italy's famous umbrella pines. Rank upon rank of concrete box apartments and factories march into the countryside, sprouting on beaches and even in "protected" national parks. Most Italian politicians are still afraid to curb such destructive practices because, in a country with high unemployment, construction provides needed jobs...
Last week 42 U.S. Congressmen introduced a bill to ban phosphates in detergents by June 1973. New York's Suffolk County barred the sale of all detergents after residents complained of suds and noxious odors in their drinking water. A ban on detergent phosphates in Akron, Ohio, is being contested in court...
...company-which spent $59 million last year to fight pollution in its U.S. plants-accepted a consent decree from a U.S. district court. It agreed to stop pouring noxious wastes into the Hudson until its treatment facility starts operating later this year. Meantime, the Tarrytown plant will pump those effluents into railroad tank cars, then haul them to another treatment center...
...basic causes and cures. One school holds that an ever-increasing population's demand for higher living standards must also create ever-increasing amounts of pollution. Unchecked population growth is thus the chief villain. Not so, says another, equally vociferous school, blaming runaway technology instead. By dumping its noxious excrement heedlessly, technological society is overwhelming nature's ability to purify itself. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, four champions from both camps clashed in direct debate...
...root of this phenomenon were the dire warnings of ecologists that man's heedless outpouring of noxious wastes is overwhelming the biosphere's ability to cleanse itself. As the year began, the public's foreboding was bolstered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which devoted 40 symposia at its annual meeting to environmental dangers. Later in January, President Nixon stressed the subject in his State of the Union address, which he followed up with a February special message. Soon the press issued almost daily reports on assorted ecological disasters?oil spills, fish kills, nuclear radiation...