Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Current Republican legislation will curtail regulatory tyranny. Not only will the EPA's plans to make water cleaner be halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons...
...also proposes to rescind laws requiring polluters to pay for cleaning up their own toxic waste. Usually, Republican philosophy is to make the public pay for the externalities and vices of the private sector, but the current budget-cutting fever in Washington has led to even more perverse policy. Since the government's funding of toxic dump cleanups would also be severely reduced, many dumps would not be cleaned...
...many nasty allusions to slavery, we'll pay $2.50 an hour for small Black children that we can wrap our feet in when we're sick or to keep us warm at night. And after we're done gutting the Superfund program, we'll pay $10 per day for toxic waste site cleanup. No, we won't offer medical insurance, but then again, after we decimate urban social services, you probably won't be able to find a hospital in your neighborhood anyway...
...prepare, how will we ever survive such a catastrophe? Of course, that is the extreme worst-case scenario, so I may be overreacting. Perhaps I should just go back to worrying about overpopulation and rapacious development, which, if allowed to continue, will surely turn our battered planet into a toxic wasteland to which inundation would come as a blessing. DOUGLAS E. SHERMAN Brighton, Massachusetts...
Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world...