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...talking about the environment in a way no GE chief has before, certainly not his predecessor, "Neutron Jack" Welch, who ran the company with a brass-knuckles approach to the bottom line. Welch had a testy relationship with greens, notably over cleaning the Hudson River of PCBs, a toxic chemical GE dumped, legally, for decades before the practice was banned in 1977. Since Welch retired in 2001, however, Immelt has been remaking GE. He recently announced a restructuring, paring 11 operating divisions to six. He has pruned slow-growth businesses like insurance and loaded up on enterprises with brighter prospects...
There’s a reason it keeps attracting applicants. The 6.25-square-mile area that CFD serves is one of the most densely populated in Massachusetts. It includes hundreds of laboratories with potentially toxic substances. And then there’s the T, which fire officials fear could attract terrorists...
...never have to worry about the embarrassment of laughing out loud in packed trains or at crowded lunch counters. In addition, Buchwald's wit is a comfort, not a goad. He is like a town crier assuring the citizenry of the status quo: the sheep are still in the toxic meadow, the cows in the surplus corn, the politicians reliably hypocritical and venal...
...ultimate costs of providing coverage might be." Most insurers flatly refuse to write policies to protect companies against suits arising from injuries caused by environmental pollution. They say they have no way of gauging the risk. That complicates further the question of who will pay for cleaning up toxic-waste dumps...
...California-Mexico border region flows one way: south to north, in the form of illegal immigrants looking for work or drug traffickers searching for profit. But according to a federal indictment announced last week in San Diego, crooks have been sending trouble southward, in the form of toxic waste...