Word: toxicants
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...tales of Bolton's ferocious management style seemed to strike a toxic note. One charge came from Melody Townsel, who dispatched an impassioned e-mail to the committee about her encounters with Bolton while working for a private subcontractor on a 1994 U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) mission in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Townsel says she wrote a letter to AID officials complaining about the lack of funds for the project from the contractor, a company that had hired Bolton as a lawyer. "Within hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began...
...major focus of the expedition is pollution. Although concentrations of many contaminants have been markedly reduced in the Great Lakes (Superior is the cleanest), toxic chemicals like PCB remain a problem. Researchers plan to devote 16 dives to studying the nepheloid, a cloudy, particle-laden 6-in. layer of water just above the lake floor that seems to trap, and then rerelease, pollutants. "We had thought that bottom sediments were sort of permanent sinks for contaminants attached to particles," explains Steven Eisenreich, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Minnesota. "Now we're finding out that under certain...
...clue to how pollutants travel may lie hi the giant furrows (up to 3 ft. deep and 20 ft. across) that stretch for miles along the lake floor. Scientists think that the trenches, similar to those on ocean bottoms, are carved by currents of water that can also disperse toxic material. Other investigators will concentrate on collecting two shrimp like organisms in the food chain, including Ponto-poreia hoyi, that dwell on the sediment and may ingest toxic chemicals...
...Editors: After reading "The Poisoning of America '85" [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 14], I have concluded that it will not be the Soviets who do us in. It will be toxic wastes and our own stupidity. Edgar Dorton Bowers Salisbury...
Your article identifies industry as the culprit in hazardous-waste dumping. Companies have not always used the best judgment in dealing with their toxic garbage, but we should ask ourselves why all these unwanted chemicals exist. We, the consumers who purchase these products, are also responsible for the by-products. David A. Moskowitz Litchfield, Conn...