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...workers in the computer and silicon chip industries are only the tip of the iceberg. The reason for this gloom: the government has not adequately monitored high tech companies, and it shows no signs of starting to do so. And the companies themselves are using more and more toxic chemicals in the production of technology...
...bureaucracy, the best solution to the existing safety problems in high tech industry is to establish a new agency--one that would monitor solely computer and electronic firms. The narrow focus would enable such an agency to spend money researching the long-term effects of worker exposure to toxic chemicals. The agency could be empowered to prevent high tech companies from using potentially dangerous technology at will...
While many environmentalists and health advocates had urged an outright ban on the toxic element, Ruckelshaus said that some lead was needed to protect the engines in older cars. Lead helps lubricate valves and reduce engine knock...
...prevailing winds in Cairo blow north or south. One brings toxic fumes from the lead and zinc smelters in Shubra El Kheima just north of the city. When the wind shifts, it brings poisons from the steel and cement factories in the south, in Helwan. President Gamal Abdel Nasser converted the health resort of Helwan into an industrial showpiece in the late 1950s and 1960s. Today it is notable for its myriad dead trees...
...wastes." All the while, he was dogged by questions about his recent appointment of Anne Burford to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere; Burford was forced to resign as head of the Environmental Protection Agency last year amid allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement of its toxic-waste fund. The EPA payroll had been reduced by 4,300 employees because of Reagan's budget cuts, and work has been completed on only 120 of the nation's 7,000 hazardous waste sites since he took office. Said Adrienne Weissman of the Sierra Club: "He must...