Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...routine Tulelake operation stood in marked contrast to the more dramatic previous test, 350 miles away in a Brentwood, Calif., strawberry field. There, technicians wrapped in head-to-foot "space suits" -- required by federal regulations governing airborne use of potentially toxic substances -- sprayed 2,400 strawberry plants with a slightly different strain of the same ice- inhibiting bacterium. The event drew a crowd of reporters and government officials, who arrived with elaborate devices to sniff the air and taste the dirt around the test site. The start of the experiment was delayed for an hour because...
...ordinance, passed unanimously by the city council, penalizes disobedient smokers -- and restaurants that fail to display no-smoking signs -- with fines of up to $500. Mayor Charlotte Spadaro, whose mail is running 2 to 1 in favor of the ban, views it as similar to laws "against pollution and toxic waste, designed to make the environment safe for everyone...
...Bears--Toxic Reasons...
...water samples near the border town of Calexico, Calif., he has seen dead cats and chickens bob past, along with tires, slaughterhouse waste, laundry suds and human feces, and once, a dead man's body. The unseen horrors are, if anything, even more disturbing: the New is saturated with toxic chemicals and teems with disease-causing viruses and bacteria. Warns Imperial County Health Department Officer Dr. Lee Cottrell: "It's an environmental disaster waiting to happen...
...churning through a garbage dump, past cattle feedlots and dairies, and within yards of ramshackle slums. On the edges of town, such classic polluters as food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain into the river. About 100 toxic substances, including mercury and such known or suspected cancer-causing agents as PCBs, toxaphene and benzene have been identified at the border sampling site...