Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canal Vu. Toxic-waste-disposal kit may be required...
...decade ago, nearly all the residents along the Love Canal in Niagara Falls abandoned the neighborhood after the discovery that thousands of buried barrels of toxic waste had been leaking into basements and backyards. Their homes were bought by the Government, and 200 or so were torn down. Now, after $275 million for relocation and cleanup, the Environmental Protection Agency says the area is again safe. Next month 236 remaining houses are scheduled to go on sale...
...nonmilitary aspects of security comes none too soon. If it ever did, national self-interest no longer calls for more arms, and it may currently depend on fewer. Now that some veils are being lifted on national- security obscurity, indications are that military facilities are major sources of toxic pollution. Military activity, it appears, has been undermining security of a physical kind, in the name of protecting the metaphysical kind contemplated by geopolitical threat assessors...
...Establishment of a new committee to establish guidelines for recycling of used motor oil, considered one of the state's most severe toxic problems. The law also bans disposal of motor...
Only a couple of years after these events, a Komsomol expedition brought back photographs showing the massive destruction of Baikal's fish and plankton caused by toxic wastes. No accidental discharges had been logged. As always, everything was fine on paper...