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Instead Section 6001 was inserted in the appropriations bill by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, to take the nation's scrap-metal dealers off the hook for millions of dollars in potential Superfund liabilities at toxic-waste sites. In doing so, Lott had the support of colleagues in both parties...
Eskew has also worked to protect Gore from another formidable adversary: himself. When the Vice President seemed to be overstating his role in uncovering Love Canal, Eskew within hours produced elaborate documentation of Gore's hearings on the issue and his crusade to clean up a similar toxic site in Tennessee. He made sure reporters had an accurate version of Gore comments that had been slightly misquoted in early reports, and then drafted what is euphemistically known in politics as a "clarification." Says a top strategist for the Vice President: "We stopped that story from ever getting legs...
...just one household dumps the same amount of dioxins, furans and other chlorine-containing pollutants into the air as the burning of trash by a state-of-the-art municipal waste incinerator serving tens of thousands of homes. Just about all types of garbage--paper, plastics, food--emit the toxic pollutants. And toxic they are; even tiny amounts of dioxins and related burning by-products may increase cancer risk...
...generates less heat. The technology - which has reportedly been available since the 1980s - will be test-marketed in the company's Merit brand, and if it's successful (presumably if fewer deadly fires are inadvertently started and the paper doesn't cut down on the smooth taste of toxic chemicals), it will be introduced in more popular brands, such as Marlboro...
...certainly sounds as if Columbine is, like many other large American high schools, a toxic environment for those who dare to be different. MARIE LOZON Ann Arbor, Mich...