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Article: `Startling' totals of toxins emitted by industry: U.S.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 13, 1989
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WASHINGTON U.S. industry is pouring a "startling" amount of
toxic chemicals into the air, water and land, the government said
Wednesday in its first nationwide summary of dangerous emissions.
In releasing the findings, a top Environmental Protection Agency
official called the levels "unacceptably high" and said they
demonstrate the need for factories to take corrective steps now.
In 1987, the report said, at least 22.5 billion pounds of toxic
chemicals, many of them cancer-causing, were released. And that
figure covers only emissions from 17,500 of the nation's largest
factories. No estimate was given on how much the smaller ones would
add to the total.
"The numbers are startling," ...