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...Democrats immediately charged that the President was slashing the venerable retirement program. Conservatives charged that Bush had signed on to wealth redistribution. And many allies of the White House warned that Bush's very endorsement might galvanize the opposition. "He's taken the one good idea and made it toxic," said a White House supporter...
...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...
...large share of the biggest environmental threats to human well-being. Energy is responsible for most indoor and outdoor air pollution, most of the acidification of rainfall caused by human activities, most of the oil polluting the seas, most radioactive waste, and much of the environmental burden of toxic trace metals...
...water (both surface and sub-surface) with complex consequences for both human and ecosystem health. It was relatively easy to associate cause with effect. Burning coal adds large concentrations of sooty materials to the atmosphere, in addition to gaseous compounds of nitrogen and sulfur oxides and a variety of toxic elements including, for example, mercury. The effluents from coal burning have a demonstrably negative effect on human health. It took a series of air pollution disasters, however, in Donora, Penn., and in London in the late 1940s and early 1950s before public opinion was aroused to a level requiring action...
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...