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...Boston Harbor clean-up and many Cambridge social programs have a good chance of getting funding from the Clinton administration's proposed "economic stimulus package," according to City Councillor Alice K. Wolf...
...Pearl Harbor made history as the target of the 1941 Japanese air attack. But the 91-year-old naval base earned a more dubious distinction last month when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the site to its list of the nation's most dangerously polluted places. Among the hazards scattered across 12,264 acres: unlined landfills, pesticide-disposal pits, chromic acid- disposal areas, heavy-metal contamination and waste-oil leakage...
Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pearl Harbor's pollution is that it is duplicated at hundreds of military installations around the country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away...
Other parts of the state harbor underground injection wells for toxic-waste disposal. While many experts contest the safety of such wells, the Clinton-appointed Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Department has defended their use. Extensive well-monitoring and seismic testing are not required prior to drilling of such wells in Arkansas, although they are mandated in states such as Ohio...
Harvard is "too big and scattered" to harbor any school-wide spirit, said Amnon A. Bar-Ilan...