Word: plante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environment, Dukakis implemented one of the country's strongest toxic waste clean-up programs and fought for safety controls at the Seabrook nuclear power plant. While Dukakis opposed offshore oil drilling, there is little hope that former oilman Bush will. As head of Reagan's task force on Regulatory Relief, Bush led the administration's effort to cut regulations on air polluion, toxic waste and curbing use of lead gasoline...
...Question 4 fails, we will continue to have a factory of toxic waste festering in our backyard. A "Yes" vote on this binding referendum would close Massachusetts' notorious Pilgrim and Yankee Rowe plants, two of the most dangerous nuclear power plants in the country. Pilgrim is simply referred to by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the worst-run nuclear plant in the country; Rowe is the oldest in the country and called by the Union of Concerned Scientist one of the five most likely plants to have a serious nuclear accident...
...little more likely. "We have been messing about with the atmosphere in a truly Faustian way. That and the garbage on the shores have put people in a rotten humor." But what will really "be the key to the evolution of Ecotopia" will be a catastrophe at a nuclear plant. "One of these days a nuke is going to blow in the country, as surely as the sun goes up and comes down. It's practically bound to happen, and it will put a whole new complexion on environmental politics...
...usually formed when organic solids are subjected to intense heat and pressures. But under the right conditions, the glittering crystals can also be manufactured from a carbon- rich gas -- something the Navy's lab has in abundant supply. Its facilities abut Washington's giant Blue Plains Waste Water Treatment Plant, which each day generates 650,000 cu. ft. of methane (CH4). Tapping that supply, chemist James Butler passed a sample of the gas over a filament of tungsten glowing at 4,000 degrees F. To his delight, a sparkling film of synthetic diamonds began to appear. The searing heat...
...champagne was readily at hand. Huber, 51, and fellow West Germans Johann Deisenhofer, 45, and Hartmut Michel, 40, were recognized for revealing the "atom by atom" structure of the molecule at the heart of photosynthesis, the process by which sunlight is converted into the chemical energy that fuels plant and animal life...