Word: toxication
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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...
...Ruckelshaus. "He was a very talented apologist for the President's horrible policies," contends Marion Edey, executive director of the League of Conservation Voters. "But," she concedes, "when he wasn't busy defending bad policies, he was working hard to improve them." Environmental groups complained that the toxic-waste program, while freed of favoritism, still moved much too slowly. Ruckelshaus urged action to reduce the impact of acid rain, but when he was overruled by the White House, he stoutly defended the Administration's decision merely to order more studies of the problem. Critics also note that...
...driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...