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Article: CUT TOXIC WASTE FASTER, ACTIVIST TELLS ENCON 'UNREALISTIC,' REPLIES STATE EXPERT.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- November 4, 1989
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Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer
The state should require industry to stop burning and burying hazardous waste, an environmental group said at a public hearing Friday.
"The only real way to prevent the tragic loss of life and health which are the result of the toxic-waste crisis" is to reduce the waste, said Alan Hays, a representative of the New York Environmental Institute.
Afterward, the state official who presided over the hearing called the non-profit group's recommendation unrealistic.
"It's not feasible to phase out both," said John Iannotti, a hazardous-waste expert in the Department of Environmental Conservation.
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