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...until last week, it looked as though a new killing ground had emerged for destroying U.S. toxic materials: the ocean. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has appeared to favor the burning at sea of deadly substances like PCBs, announced a preliminary decision to delay the issuance of operating permits for incinerator ships. The halt meant that three specially designed vessels were temporarily left high and dry. The move did not calm environmentalists, who are concerned about the fate of the oceans and the coastlines. Says EPA Director of Water Regulations and Standards Steven Schatzow: "The definition...
Some critics are worried that monitoring Waste Management's vessels would be difficult. Over the past year the company has been battling charges of improper handling of toxic materials at various of its landlocked disposal sites around the nation. Others object to toxic wastes being trucked to and stored at dockside facilities. Says John Vaughn, a Lake Charles, La., municipal official: "We know there is a problem with hazardous wastes, but we don't want to solve it for all of Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and Mississippi...
...selection committee based its decision on Wilson's work on island biogeography--the study of small isolated habitats because of its impact on conservation in the Amazon jungle, and on the chemical secretions of insects, because of its contribution to non-toxic insect control, according to Walker...
...actions arouse more spontaneous revulsion than the deliberate use of toxic substances and pathogens against other humans. The thousands of mustard gassed blind and lung burned soldiers returning from World War I (and those that did not return) sparked an immediate world outcry. The result was the 1925 Geneva Protocol outlawing both biological and chemical weapons. The United States did not sign, perhaps as a by-product of the same isolationism that prompted the Senate not to ratify' entry into the League of Nations, but all other major powers were signatories to the treaty World War II saw no large...
Also this month the Cambridge health authorities have tried to bar the Arthur D. Little Co. from manufacturing binary nerve gas shells in a North Cambridge laboratory. The weapons, budgeted two years ago in heated Congressional debate, contain two non-toxic substances which combine to make nerve gas only after the weapon has been fired. Before producing any evidence that a health hazard was posed by local manufacture, the department sought a ban, which was promptly overturned by a local court. The city has now actually sought an extension of the ruling in order to try and build a case...