Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that annually belch from its 565-ft. smokestack and seep from other parts of the plant. Asarco is already spending $4.4 million to install hoods that should cut back emissions to precisely those levels. Despite these safeguards, Ernesta Barnes, EPA's Northwest regional administrator, maintains that "arsenic is toxic at any level" and Asarco's new hoods will "still result in emissions in the air." Counters Larry Lindquist, the smelter's plant manager: "We don't think cancer deaths can be related to the plant. There's been no proof that these emissions cause health...
...leaking. The seepage contaminated surrounding soil and fouled pockets of ground water beneath such communities as Santa Clara, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and San Jose. The California assembly, following the lead of eight cities in Santa Clara County that have passed ordinances to prevent such spills, has approved a tough toxic control law. As the measure moves on to the state senate, the mellow industrialists of Silicon Valley, to their acute discomfort, find themselves accused of poisoning their own hot tubs...
...confidential letter written in 1965, during a time when the Government was purchasing millions of pounds of Agent Orange, Dow's toxicology director wrote to another Dow official that dioxin "is exceptionally toxic; it has tremendous potential for producing chloracne [an ugly skin disease] and systemic injury. . . I trust that you will be very judicious in your use of this information. It could be quite embarrassing if it were misinterpreted or misused." A postscript added, "Under no circumstances may this letter be reproduced, shown or sent to anyone outside...
...effort, for an additional 2½ years. Yet the Pentagon is on record as having ordered Agent Orange from Dow and others specifically on the basis that it would not be harmful to humans. Military leaders said they only learned that the herbicide contained the highly toxic dioxin in 1970, when Dow told them...
...keep an eye on state government University officials have worked with state government leaders, many of whom served as faculty in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. But a couple of box local ressues have given them troubles such as anima' resting at the Medical School, and the toxic that other researchers produce in then work...