Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems, Adamkus may have the last word. The preliminary findings of a new EPA study of the site, released last week by the agency's Midwest office, indicate that more than 40 toxic chemicals, among them the most dangerous form of dioxin, are being released by Dow into the Tittabawassee River. The report estimates that there are up to 35 lbs. of toxic organic pollutants in the approximately 61.4 million gal. of waste water Dow discharges daily...
...audience responded with applause as he outlined what he termed the mounting dangers of careless toxic waste disposal and an escalating arms race. He lambasted Reagan's treatment of the Environmental Protection Agency adding that he couldn't think of a time since Watergate when we have seen such flagrant violation of law by high officials...
...When outsiders visited a cleanup site in Seymour, Ind., for instance, they saw work crews in protective clothing taking samples from drums of hazardous refuse for white-coated chemists to analyze in nearby laboratories. Other neatly uniformed workers transported the waste to two of the company's 15 toxic-chemical disposal sites, where it was buried in a landfill under tons of clay or injected into a deep underground well. Such attention to niceties helped Waste Management become the U.S. leader in the disposal of hazardous garbage and made its stock a Wall Street favorite. Two weeks...
...last week some highly toxic public muck was flying in Waste Management's direction, and some of it seemed to be sticking. Former employees, including two who left to work for competitors and a third who was fired, charged that dangerous materials had been handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that...
...part, Waste Management is a victim of heightened visibility brought on by the dioxin contamination of Times Beach, Mo., and the scandal in the Environmental Protection Agency over the program to clean up toxic wastes. Yet the company has been the target of a number of lawsuits, and it has been found guilty of price fixing in Georgia. Says Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan: "They are always saying the same thing, that it's just a technical mistake. What it is is corporate irresponsibility...