Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friday's ruling officially renders the company's brand new $1 million Levins Laboratory, specially designed for the safe testing of the toxic gases, inactive for an indefinite period of time...
...offered to help the city draw up regulations which would allow limited testing of toxic agents, while restoring the community's confidence in industrial research, Triner added...
...This is one of the very few issues in this city where there is one hundred percent unanimity on what should be done," added City Councilor Alice Wolf, who said the toxic agents pose "a clear and present danger" to the community...
American Caster, a furniture-equipment maker, was nabbed by the Los Angeles Toxic Waste Strike Force, a team formed of police, sheriff and sanitation and health officials. The unit has devised unusual penalties for big polluters. Among those caught was a Los Angeles franchise of Culligan International, which was found guilty of improper toxic-waste disposal. It had to supply free, bottled, purified water to several customers, and its president spent three months in jail and paid a $100,000 fine. Confessional ads are the latest strike-force tactic. Says Barry Groveman, who directs the special unit: "An ad like...
After its plant in Bhopal, India, leaked deadly methyl isocyanate in December and killed at least 1,400 people, Union Carbide stopped making the pesticide ingredient at its facility in Institute, W. Va. Last week officials of the U.S. company announced that they expect to resume production of the toxic chemical at the Institute plant by April 1. Before that time, Union Carbide will have completed its investigation of the Bhopal disaster...