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Since becoming a TIME correspondent in 1981, Dolan has covered such major science stories as the implications of nuclear power and the dilemma of toxic waste...
Garrity concedes that his harbor order was "draconian" but adds that it was also essential. Says he: "Because of human and toxic waste, the condition of the harbor is in violation of both state and federal law. It is unsafe, unsanitary and totally indecent. It is a condition profoundly inconsistent with the public interest." Massachusetts Attorney General Francis Bellotti plans to call for a stay of the order this week so its impact can be assessed...
...launched EPA as its first Administrator in 1970, had restored morale and raised the competency of the agency's top officials during his brief return. He fired all ten of the presidentially appointed bureaucrats and replaced them with able administrators. He took the task of cleaning up toxic-waste dumps away from officials friendly to polluters. Ruckelshaus ordered that nearly all of the lead in gasoline be phased out by 1986 and banned the use of the cancer-causing pesticide...
...least 12 billion gallons a year of human waste and toxic chemicals flow into Boston Harbor, polluting the beaches, turning the Harbor's fish into swimming carcinogens, and creating a health hazard for residents of the North and South Shore...
...company drew the most fire for what neighbors said was its unwillingness to explain exactly what chemicals were in the dump. "I just want to see some facts. I want to see results that show that it's safe to start digging," said Toxic Alert Coalition member Wendy L. Baruch...