Word: noxiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Bureau of Economic Research, which was once headed by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, is trying to revise the system of economic accounting so that it will gauge the cost of noxious factories, landscape wreckers, noise and other "disproducts." The job will not be quick or easy. "I look forward to the day when statisticians add up the national accounts to take account of the depreciation of the environment," said Burns to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week. "When we learn to do this, we will discover that our gross national product has been deceiving...
...threatened by the prodigal garbage of the world's richest economy. In the President's own boyhood town of Whittier, a part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the once sweet air is befouled with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country. What most Americans...
...absorb only so much filth; many ecologists are worried about the effects on phytoplankton. If the supertanker Torrey Canyon had leaked herbicides rather than oil, the spillage would have wiped out all plankton life in the North Sea. Other ecologists fear that the oceans will become so burdened with noxious wastes that they will lose their vast power...
...industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green algae...
After this blunt exchange with an executive of a large chemical company, Illinois Attorney General William Scott Jr. haled the corporation to court for fouling the air with "divers noxious fumes, gases and chemical substances." It was typical of more than 200 lawsuits that Scott has brought against the state's polluting industries, government bodies and others in the past six months -and his crusade for clean air and water has just begun...