Word: toxication
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Several nearby residents, including members of the community group, North Cambridge Toxic Alert Coalition (NCTAC), however, charged that not enough tests had been run and that they had been unable to get results from the agencies named...
Residents said Haley & Aldrich also did not test for toxic chemicals such as dioxin, which they said is not included on the EPA's list of 129 priority tests which the firm conducted...
...Toxic Alert Coalition members and other area residents have stepped up their efforts at getting a full range of tests in the dump this fall. They said they hope to discover which chemicals are present and in what quantity before Grace and Hines Industrial--Grace's partner in the building venture--pave over and build there...
...Government has been planning to create gigantic, underground waste dumps where the deadly byproducts of nuclear-power and -weapons plants could be isolated. The Department of Energy is currently considering nine sites in six states for the high-level radioactive garbage. But since the material will remain toxic for thousands of years, the Department of Energy contracted a special 13-member study panel in 1980 to explore how future inhabitants of earth might be protected from hazardous waste sites. The Human Interference Task Force, a team of nuclear physicists, linguists, engineers, anthropologists and psychologists, has come up with a number...
...proposed nuclear freeze would only prevent the exacerbation of the atomic threat instead of actually alleviating the problem. Where do the Democrats propose to put the toxic waste? Decrease military spending and put it into education? Surveys show that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to significant military budget cuts, and it still believes that social spending should be deposed. There are no quick-fix solutions to America's problems, regardless of the public's desire to believe in them. Issues are not created by desperate political parties; they arise out of crisis...