"toxic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To the Editor: Roughly half the toxic PCB's in the New York Harbor have chemical "fingerprints" tracing them to General Electric's factories 200 miles upriver.
- A year ago, G. E. scientists reported that some bacteria found in PCB sediments attacked and released chlorine atoms from PCB's, thus rendering the PCB's less toxic.
- A manufacturer of outboard motors has agreed to pay for a $20 million cleanup of toxic PCB's in Lake Michigan's Waukegan Harbor, ending years of bitter dispute over the problem.
- A Houston-based gas pipeline company today released the names of 51 sites in 12 states where it has acknowledged burying toxic PCB's.
- The overnight acquisition of Honeywell, a $45 billion company, stands in stark contrast to the 20-year battle to remove the million pounds of toxic PCB's that G.E. dumped into the Hudson River.
- The Department of Health is considering whether to investigate an elevated rate of respiratory diseases among people who live near hazardous-waste sites containing toxic PCB's and pesticides, a department spokeswoman said yesterday.
- For the dwindling number of commercial fishermen on the river, the fish, although plentiful, are a mixed catch - a legacy of a 16-year-old controversy about toxic PCB's in the river.
- That is why high levels of toxic PCB's found in the stream and their unlikely source have sent a ripple of shock through this central Montana town of 4,000.
- The Environmental Protection Agency disclosed today that it had found high levels of toxic PCB's in wells for drinking water near a pipeline company dump near Lambertville, N.J.
- An industrial accident in Taiwan nine years ago that spilled high levels of toxic PCB's into cooking oil has caused an epidemic of birth defects, a new study has found.
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