Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convinced that they can remove all the toxic chemicals from the water and we're also not convinced that the chlorine can remove all the pathogens," Moraff says...
...banner headline was 'Seven Indian Starters Poisoned on Eve of Game," he says. "I remember the subhead because I loved it so much: 'Candy ration proves toxic...
...access to information is only one half of the democratic equation. With a couple hours work anyone can become his or her own publishing house. Think that the mainstream media are ignoring the toxic sludge being dumped in your backyard? Put it on the Web with sounds, pictures and video clips of three-headed squirrels...
GENERAL MOTORS The automaker moved three of its factories to Matamoros, where, a GM manager admitted in a 1989 internal memo, the company sold barrels contaminated with toxic residues to a metal recycler. "This is in direct violation of the law," the manager wrote. A GM study found solvents, which can be carcinogenic and may damage developing fetuses, in GM's wastewater discharge. Still other documents show that GM used three and four times the amount of solvents in Mexico as it did at a comparable plant in Dayton, Ohio. "Not allowed in Dayton," noted a handwritten GM memo...
...chloride, a chemical that causes cancer in lab animals, at its Matamoros plant. In 1988 Kemet's consultant found that airborne methylene chloride waste was 30 times as great in Mexico as at its plant in North Carolina. Later, another Kemet study found that the highest readings of the toxic chemical were found near the high school next door...