Word: toxication
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...hazardous wastes. Drawing on contributions from chemical and oil companies, with costs to be recouped from violators, the measure was hailed as an important beginning in coping with the worst public health threat of the 1980s. It gave the Environmental Protection Agency the money and authority to purge the toxic dumps environmentalists called "ticking time bombs...
...session and is scheduled for the President's signature this week, it required four years of tinkering in nine separate House and Senate committees to cobble together the 100-page bill. It authorizes the Department of Energy to find a permanent home for the 8,800 tons of toxic nuclear waste that have piled up since the dawn of nuclear power...
...federal Centers for Disease Control, advised residents who had left Times Beach after the flooding to stay away. He told those who had returned to avoid exposure to soil and debris until new tests were completed. Falk said that scientific studies with animals show that dioxin, an acutely toxic substance that is produced as an unwanted byproduct in the manufacture of herbicides and other chemicals, can have extremely adverse effects on the skin, liver and immune system. Many of the residents attending the session told Falk about persistent rashes and other medical ailments that may be related to dioxin pollution...
...Toxic waste at an arsenal...
...lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes have leached out of both ponds, infecting the area's ground water and killing crops...