Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the waning decades of the 20th century. The embattled state must also try to reverse a disastrously declining birthrate, which began to slide with the growing acceptance of abortion and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in the bad old days. It grew worse after the toxic effects of various ecological disasters...
Some of Berger's stories cover standard topics of environmental abuse: pumping industrial waste straight into rivers until they are opaque with sludge, or a plant's 20 years of illegally disposing of toxic chemicals making groundwater poisonous. In recent years the frequency of such pollution has become all too clear. In Massachusetts alone, there are over a thousand toxic waste dumps that will take the next hundred years to clean up under current laws...
Greenpeace: From Sea to Shining Sea: video and discussion on toxic waste, Quincy JCR, Harvard...
Most of the thousands of substances which are at least mildly toxic are used in very small amounts, and the state should exempt research labs from having to report what they are doing with the chemicals and get permits, Doherty said...
Task force members said the Environmental Protection Authority, which bears federal responsibility for controlling toxic substances, will be coming out with a new list of the several hundred most dangerous chemicals...