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...Canal Vu. Toxic-waste-disposal kit may be required...
...decade ago, nearly all the residents along the Love Canal in Niagara Falls abandoned the neighborhood after the discovery that thousands of buried barrels of toxic waste had been leaking into basements and backyards. Their homes were bought by the Government, and 200 or so were torn down. Now, after $275 million for relocation and cleanup, the Environmental Protection Agency says the area is again safe. Next month 236 remaining houses are scheduled to go on sale...
...nonmilitary aspects of security comes none too soon. If it ever did, national self-interest no longer calls for more arms, and it may currently depend on fewer. Now that some veils are being lifted on national- security obscurity, indications are that military facilities are major sources of toxic pollution. Military activity, it appears, has been undermining security of a physical kind, in the name of protecting the metaphysical kind contemplated by geopolitical threat assessors...
Eastern Europe's majestic waterways, fouled by sewage, toxic chemicals and acid rain, are in no better shape. Fish catches in the Baltic Sea, long a dumping ground for industrial wastes from Poland, East Germany and Lithuania, are declining dramatically, and summer bathing is in jeopardy. The Vistula River, which runs through Poland, is so laden with poisons and corrosive chemicals that stretches are considered unusable for factory coolant systems, much less for drinking water. The Danube is endangered at every turning by runoff from nitrogen-rich agricultural fertilizers and by the industrial plants that discharge along its banks, from...
...Establishment of a new committee to establish guidelines for recycling of used motor oil, considered one of the state's most severe toxic problems. The law also bans disposal of motor...