Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME correspondents who visited dozens of toxic dumps and waste sites across the country to get material for this week's cover, the story entailed some eerie hazards. "If you are reporting a riot and get hit with a bottle," says New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, a veteran of the science and environment beat, "you either come home well or you don't. But with hazardous waste, you become acutely aware of every sneeze, every rash. You wonder about being well 20 years from now." Chatting with fire fighters near a blazing Elizabeth, N.J., dump site...
Awkwardly confined in the hot body suits and encumbered with heavy cameras, photographers found their job doubly difficult especially when they were trying to compose a picture while wearing goggles. Says Photographer Bill Pierce, who surveyed toxic dumps in New Jersey, as well as farms and woodlands that hide chemical waste sites: "Hazardous waste does not always look ugly. Quite often these dumps are neat rows of beautifully colored drums shining against a gorgeous, air-pollution sunset. We found too that some of the most photogenic slime was harmless. We had to get precise shots of the right slime...
Part of Carter's plan to help the auto industry includes rescinding certain pollution regulations, relaxing standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and easing up "on certain auto durability test requirements." Has it occurred to those who devised this plan that the way to build, or rebuild, an industry is to raise the quality of the product...
Regulation. The Government will rescind some costly federal rules, such as emissions standards for pollution-prone high altitude areas like Denver, relax factory standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and ease up on certain auto durability test requirements. The Department of Transportation promised that it would not issue any new regulations for the rest of the year...
...issue was benzene, a chemical whose vapors are known to be toxic. By the time OSHA was functioning in 1971, the Government and industry had agreed on a benzene standard of 10 parts per million (p.p.m.) in the air in workplaces. OSHA, concerned about new evidence that breathing benzene vapors could cause leukemia, slashed the standard in 1978 to 1 p.p.m. The American Petroleum Institute contended that OSHA was forcing industry to spend $500 million or more to meet a standard that it had not proved to be any safer than...