Word: toxication
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...good example is the environment. Toxic waste and acid rain are not the concern only of isolated special interests, nor are they left-wing issues. The special interests in the case of toxic dumping are the chemical companies, in whose interest it is to contaminate public drinking water. Real special interests, the Democrats should remind people more often, are mostly under the Republican umbrella: defense contractors, the tobacco lobby, the NRA, chemical companies. Those groups speak for themselves and no one else, usually against the public interest...
Constructive solutions to the problems of toxic dumping and acid rain are in everyone's interest, and you had better believe that the average urban worker cares about them. There are 1000 Superfund dumpsites in Massachusetts alone, and only 300 towns. Local and state public-interest groups have had enormous success organizing and fundraising in working-class neighborhoods on the hazardous-waste issue, but on the national level Democrats seem either ignorant of the potential of this issue, or afraid to be seen as No-Nukes flower children. Democrats have become accustomed to expressing support for environmental cleanup with...
...last week White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan wrote to Dole saying that the President might veto the Senate's hard-won deficit-reduction plan for fiscal 1986 because of tax increases on cigarettes and some imported goods and a new tax on manufacturers to help pay for toxic- waste cleanups. Despite Reagan's hang-tough posture, a top White House aide admitted that "we may be whistling past the graveyard" on the chances of seeing the cherished tax-reform proposal emerge from Congress...
Toxins like organic solvents, PCBs and dioxin will be broken down ^ completely only when burned at temperatures exceeding 2,400 degrees F. Some conventional incinerators can generate such heat, but without careful controls to maintain high temperatures they may spew toxic gases into the air. People fear the fumes may prove as perilous as the chemicals from which they come. But new technologies may overcome these obstacles...
...unit. Because the bacteria possess a sticky body surface, they pick up zinc, iron and other metals in the water as it passes over the plates. They also eat the cyanide that once threatened to kill the waterway's marine life. Barely a year ago, the creek was too toxic for trout, but now they seem to be thriving...