Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Committee to Make Polluters Pay gathered in Cambridge last week to support a ballot initiative which would tax companies that produce toxic waste...
...passed, Question 4--known as the Polluter Pay Initiative--would place a tax of one fifth of a cent per pound on the production and import of toxic chemicals and industrial petroleum products in Massachusetts...
Supporters say the legislation will provide the funding to cleanup Massachusetts' 2,700 toxic waste sites. But opponents say the referendum is badly drafted and provides no guarantee that the tax money raised will be used for environmental clean-up. The measure, they say, will simply increase prices for consumers...
...their grandparents because they've swallowed up the wealth of several future generations and spent it on a Winnebago. The teens' opportunities are grim because their little Northwestern town is dying from the loss of the nuclear industry, and they grow depressed because they could all die from the toxic waste left behind. The only light of hope for Tyler reflects from the glass skyscrapers of the huge Bechtol corporation in Seattle, where he wants to work...
...will now consider granting conditional approval to experimental treatments for terminal diseases for which there are few or no medical alternatives. This is a radical shift for the nation's pharmaceutical watchdog. Drugs conditionally approved will be closely monitored and withdrawn if they prove to be too toxic or ineffective. "We may be wrong," says FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "but with life- threatening illnesses, those risks are acceptable...