Word: toxication
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Part of Carter's plan to help the auto industry includes rescinding certain pollution regulations, relaxing standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and easing up "on certain auto durability test requirements." Has it occurred to those who devised this plan that the way to build, or rebuild, an industry is to raise the quality of the product...
Regulation. The Government will rescind some costly federal rules, such as emissions standards for pollution-prone high altitude areas like Denver, relax factory standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and ease up on certain auto durability test requirements. The Department of Transportation promised that it would not issue any new regulations for the rest of the year...
...issue was benzene, a chemical whose vapors are known to be toxic. By the time OSHA was functioning in 1971, the Government and industry had agreed on a benzene standard of 10 parts per million (p.p.m.) in the air in workplaces. OSHA, concerned about new evidence that breathing benzene vapors could cause leukemia, slashed the standard in 1978 to 1 p.p.m. The American Petroleum Institute contended that OSHA was forcing industry to spend $500 million or more to meet a standard that it had not proved to be any safer than...
...Corporation recently reiterated its position when it abstained on two more, ACSR-endorsed resolutions--one called on the owner of the firm that dumped toxic wastes in the Love Canal neighborhood, to establish a policy on toxic waste disposal; the other asked the Atlantic Richfield Company not to expand its operations in Chile. see Section...
When the nature of this toxic time bomb finally became fully understood in 1978, New York State relocated 239 families whose homes were closest to the dump (cost: $37 million...