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Thanks to emission-control equipment installed on new autos since 1975, the air over U.S. cities is cleaner than it was ten years ago. Even so, millions of cars continue to spew out microscopic particles of a toxic pollutant: lead. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency told refiners that by next January they must eliminate 90% of the lead they put in leaded gasoline. The EPA said it is proposing a ban on all such fuel...
Countering ADL guarantees that the laboratory--located about two miles from the University--is safe for employees and neighborhood residents, Toxic Alert member Steve Schnapp showed slides of environmental disasters resulting from industrial accidents...
Sharon Moran said during Toxic Alert's 30-minute presentation that Cambridge is no place for a laboratory testing such hazardous substances, since the city is "one of the top five most densely populated...
...Cambridge's] elected representatives, neighborhood groups and scientific advisory committee, the risks posed by the testing of toxic substances are not acceptable," said Dr. David Ozonoff, a Boston University professor of public health and member of the city's 16-member scientific advisory board. "I have a bias in favor of public health...
...will be happy to abide by any regulation that is reasonably established," said Magee, who accused the Toxic Alert Group of opposing the whole concept of chemical warfare testing...