Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful and popular pieces of environmental legislation to emerge from Congress. Passed in 1970 at a time of heightened concern about pollution, the law empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a much needed atmospheric cleanup. It required the EPA to set strict limits on seven major pollutants, including toxic agents such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and lead. It mandated steady reductions in emissions from automotive tail pipes and factory smokestacks. It also gave the EPA power to force the states, some of whom showed little or no interest in curbing pollutants, to comply with the tough new federal...
...approach a renewed onslaught of "toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities," people had better realize that behind every Anne Gorsuch stands Ronald Reagan and his wealthy, Big Business, damn-the-public cronies. Their environmental shortsightedness appalls me. I, for one, will not forget at the next election...
...walls of Anne Gorsuch's spartan Washington office are hung with tasteful, unobtrusive pictures of wildlife, as befits her role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her enemies, who are becoming legion, suggest that more suitable decoration would be stark photos of toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities...
...addition, Gorsuch has cut spending on every major EPA program, including the one that she says deserves top funding priority: the new $1.6 billion "superfund" to clean up abandoned toxic dump sites. She has also urged major retrenchments in the Clean Air Act; late last week she proposed a three-year delay and substantial weakening of impending carbon monoxide emission standards for heavy gasoline-fueled trucks. Mistrustful of the presumed environmentalist bias of career EPA employees, she has centralized control. Research scientists now cannot release findings until they have been approved as "appropriate" by four levels of the bureaucracy; public...
...Hampshire, and from 139,000 to 82,000 in previously hazy Detroit. In one of the many rivers cleaned up under EPA rules, the Penobscot in Maine, one salmon was caught in all of 1970, but nearly one a day by 1978. Under EPA pressure, corporate dumping of toxic wastes into the Gulf of Mexico has dropped from an authorized 1.4 million tons in 1973 to zero...