Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audition bombs, and Finnegan must go on chasing real-life bad guys, toxic-waste dumpers, into the wilds of Tijuana. A couple of beautiful women detectives assist him in this nonsense, whose seriousness may be judged by Finnegan's dire judgment that "the watershed event that signaled the collapse of American civilization was the colorization of The Maltese Falcon...
...biggest problem here and throughout the Rockies is acidic drainage. Gold-bearing rock tends to contain large quantities of sulfur, which form sulfuric acid when exposed to air and water. The acid puts such highly toxic metals as copper and cadmium into solution, and the poisons kill aquatic life. That happened before when Henderson was mined...
What Crown Butte proposes is to dig out 56 acres of wetlands, moose-breeding ground high on the mountain, and build a 77-acre lake to hold toxic mine residues called tailings. This mass, weighing about 5.5 million tons, would be held back by a 90-ft.-long earth-fill dam (earthquake-proof, say the company's engineers), and lined with clay and long-lasting plastic. At the end of the mine's 15-to-20-year life, the water level would be lowered and the crushed sulfate tailings would be capped with rock and dirt. The remaining water would...
...future suddenly appeared brighter than it had in years. After completing an eight- week course in handling hazardous materials, the students looked forward to new white-collar careers in pollution control. But fewer than one-third of the graduates landed the principal jobs available: on-site work cleaning up toxic spills. "They would be the people out there exposing themselves to hazardous waste," says Robert Nelson, director of government relations for the Los Angeles-based Labor Employment Training Corp., which ran the program from September 1991 until early last year. "A lot of the people we trained had been administrative...
...maquiladoras, most of them American-owned, employ more than 500,000 Mexican workers. Not only has the shifting of the facilities to Mexico cost some Americans their jobs, but lax environmental standards and poorly enforced regulations have turned large stretches of the 2,000-mile border into toxic cesspools. Maquiladoras are blamed for the noxious brown cloud that often overhangs El Paso, Juarez and other cities, as well as for the foul wastes that flow into the Rio Grande...