Word: toxication
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...Some 15,000 facilities in the U.S. house toxic chemicals, and 123 of these have enough stockpiled that a leak at any one could threaten more than a million people in surrounding neighborhoods. U.S. intelligence has evidence that terror groups like al-Qaeda have eyed chemical facilities as targets; homeland security czar Tom Ridge worries there are "security deficiencies at dozens and dozens of those" facilities...
...Safeguards at some are "horrendous," says Corzine. "People can walk into these plants with no one stopping them." Chemical facility owners worry the new federal regulations could cost them millions, particularly if they're required (as in some cases) to use less toxic chemical in their production line, which they argue is an expensive change. The American Chemistry Council, which represents the country's major chemical manufacturers, also insists that security measures its members are already voluntarily drawing up can be in place faster than anything the government dictate. The Corzine bill "in effect slows down the work that...
Human activities, though, may be part of this fatal mix. Some scientists, Geraci among them, connect a rise in marine-mammal deaths to a sharp increase in toxic plankton blooms--great eruptions of poisonous algae in the sea. As the toxins from these tiny plants pass up the food chain, they become increasingly concentrated until they contaminate the fish on which seals, sea lions and whales feed. Suspected causes of the blooms: the inadvertent fertilization of coastal waters by agriculture runoffs and, most alarmingly, the rise in seawater temperatures from global warming. If so, the death of the whales last...
...Adelphia scalps gave the Administration a chance to look as if it was taking charge amid the dreadful financial news. Through much of July, as toxic stock syndrome plunged the market to five-year lows and nudged his poll numbers to mortal levels, the President and his top economic advisers appeared helpless and sometimes befuddled. Wall Street was not impressed. As a private equities fund manager told TIME, "It doesn't seem like his top priority. It doesn't seem like he understands. It doesn't seem like they have their act together." Each time Bush gave a speech promising...
...decade later, deep-diving submersibles scanning the midocean ridge near the Galapagos Islands stumbled on something totally unexpected: plumes of toxic water spewing from cracks in the sea floor. Huddled around these awful oases were entire ecosystems made up of hundreds of hitherto unknown species, ranging from bright red tube worms to ghost-white crabs and anemones...