Word: toxication
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...This year we've had 540 accidents due to the release of toxic chemicals into the environment," he said. "I think it is more important now that we consider the development on a federal level of a management team that can move to any part of the country to deal with these problems...
...attracted the attention of real Clamshell Alliance demonstrators outside the Sheraton, as opposed to Proposition 13's absent masses, was nuclear power. However, it was given short shrift inside the conference hall. When I asked Milliken if support for nuclear power plants was inconsistent with his concern for toxic chemicals and the environment, he lowered his voice a little and said, "Well we are going to have to go ahead in a very cautious way, but wind and solar energy are not going to solve this country's energy problems," adding that "environmental risks and economic advantages are not mutually...
...other scientists findings indicate that dioxin may accumilate in the body. Even if a person is exposed to a very low dosage of dioxin, repeated exposures have the same effect as one massive dose. Some scientists also speculate that dioxin may build up in the body fat producing toxic effects when the fat is broken down by weight loss. Accumulation would explain the characteristic symptoms of dioxin that occur years after a veteran served in a sprayed area...
...leopard spots" of contamination and continues to defy all attempts at purification. "It may be a wasteland forever-we just don't know what to do," admits a committee member. Even total incineration of the entire area has been rejected for eradicating a poison 1,000 times more toxic than strychnine...
Washington has already helped prevent the creation of new Love Canals by enacting strict laws regulating the disposal of toxic substances. But, says Environmental Protection Administration Regional Director Eckhardt Beck, "we've been burying these things like ticking time bombs. They'll all leach out in 100 or 100,000 years." There are at least 30 sites like the Love Canal in New York alone. Nationally, according to EPA officials, there are more than a thousand...