Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agenda for the 12-day U.N.-sponsored summit includes discussing the cleanup of toxic and hazardous wastes and the protection of the atmosphere, the oceans, forests, threatened species and fresh water...
Agenda 21 became the main forum for North-South wrangling on every topic imaginable, including the spread of deserts, disposal of toxic wastes and protection of women's rights. In the end, the conferees were able to agree that some of these problems do need to be solved. What they still have not agreed on is the means to solve them. To bring about meaningful change in most of these areas would require overhauling the way the world does business -- from the laws that control international trade to the financial institutions that direct the ebb and flow of capital. That...
...plants, scattered from Hanford, Wash., to Los Alamos, N. Mex., to the Savannah River plant. The Department of Energy has launched a major clean-up effort, but it might be too late to prevent a host of medical problems in people who have lived in the shadow of the toxic plants for decades...
...efforts of some publicly funded schools to justify their existence by trying to fulfill immediate community needs. The University of New Hampshire has been able to squeeze additional funds from New Hampshire's traditionally tight-fisted legislature by polishing its public image with projects like developing a non-toxic bacterium that virtually eliminated black flies, which plagued some of the state's tourist resorts. But the university's president, Dale Nitzschke, allows that catering to the lawmakers' whims is a high-risk proposition. "We don't enjoy a separation anymore between the university and the political system," he says...
...campaign against the use of toxic pesticides by California fruit growers must continue, said renowned leader of migrant workers Cesar Chavez in a speech last night at the Kennedy School...