Word: toxically
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...regulations gone awry. But this year the Republican majority has filled the Capitol with stories of absurd excesses, many of them apocryphal. According to one bogus story, the Federal Government requires buckets to leak so children won't drown in them. Another says sand has been ruled a toxic substance. Nevertheless, myth and personal anecdote are powerful weapons...
...animals feeding on in the absence of any detectable food supply? How were they surviving without light? The answer, surprisingly, had been found by a Russian scientist more than 100 years earlier. He had shown that an underwater bacterium, Beggiatoa, lived on hydrogen sulfide, a substance that is highly toxic to most forms of life. The bacterium was chemosynthetic--as opposed to photosynthetic--getting its energy from chemicals rather than from...
President Clinton signed an executive order that requires companies seeking to do business with the federal government to report toxic chemical emissions. "This is an insurance policy," said Carol Browner,Environmental Protection Agencychief. "The idea is to prevent another Love Canal," says TIME's Andrea Dorfman. The move by the President is seen by some political observers as a response to the GOP's attempt last week in the house to weaken right-to-know laws...
...moderate Republicans joined forces to defeat 17 measures designed to stop new EPA rule-making for one year.Part of a $79.4 billion bill that funds environmental, housing, veterans, and space programs for next year, the amendments would have halted regulations that keep drinking water free of arsenic, reduce toxic emissions for oil refineries, check pesticides in food, and control sewage overflows. GOP freshman Dave Macintosh, who chaired former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways, harm the environment...
...Soviet Union. After being released, immigrating to the U.S. in 1985 and becoming a citizen, he embarked on a crusade to publicize the nightmare of China's prison system. Using a hidden camera, he once sneaked into a Chinese tanning factory and filmed naked prisoners standing in vats of toxic chemicals. Last year, while he posed as a wealthy American searching for a kidney for a relative, the BBC filmed transplant recipients who told Wu that their organs had come from executed prisoners...