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...view of this thing is it's extremely noxious," Houweling said. "It would be better for everybody if they didn't continue to circulate...
...PLUME OF gas, the Mexican truck drivers leaped out of their cabs and ran for the American side of the border. Acrylic acid, a toxic chemical, had leaked from a tanker waiting in line for U.S. Customs inspection, and the liquid was vaporizing as it gathered in a noxious pool. It was "chewing holes in the pavement," says Lee Thompson, who saw it all happen in early November at the border station outside Laredo, Texas. His hazardous-materials response team, fortuitously on the scene for a training exercise, rushed to prevent the highly flammable acid from catching fire. They barely...
Moscow dispatched technical experts to Baku after some 300 Azerbaijanis perished there on Saturday in the world's worst subway disaster when a malfunctioning electrical system sparked a fire. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that it was not the fire itself, but noxious fumes that killed most of the victims. The fumes were emitted by below-standard subway construction materials that should never have been used. "That train car had just been serviced," says Zarakhovich, "and this tragedy can be attributed to technical incompetence. It's not that the materials were bad -- they were used improperly." Zarakhovich says little money...
...tortures visited on the land. Possibly the largest single source of air pollution in the world is a complex of smelters in Norilsk in central Siberia; it pumps 2 million tons of sulfur, along with heavy metals and other poisons, into the air each year, contributing heavily to a noxious arctic haze that plagues residents of the northern latitudes as far away as Canada. Siberian industrial emissions contribute heavily to the threat of global warming, which in turn may come back to burn the region. Nearly two-thirds of the region lies atop permafrost. Climate models estimate that even...
...study released today claims that more than 44 million Americans are riskingtoxic chemical poisoningbecause they live too close to manufacturing plants that spew noxious emissions. But take those claims by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the National Environmental Law Center with a grain of salt. TIME's Andrea Dorfman reports: "All the study seems to be saying is that a lot of Americans live within the range of factories should there be an accident. What we need to know are the safety records of those companies." The Chemical Manufacturers Association says the study only focuses on worst case...