While the United States focuses on figuring out how to keep drugs and other
chemicals out of the nation's waterways, the European Union's approach could be called «benign by design.»
Not exact matches
The situation in Hoosick Falls has led to heightened and some frightened awareness
of PFOA and other potentially hazardous
chemicals, with worries rippling
out to neighboring towns, over state lines and across the
nation.
Leonard Spector
of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC told a US Congressional committee last week that in a recent military exercise, the US and 18 other
nations, and «more than 12,000 participants» rehearsed ways to «prevent the transfer
of chemical arms
out of Syria».
Production
of some compounds in this family
of environmentally persistent
chemicals — associated with liver toxicity, reduced fertility and a variety
of other health problems in studies
of people and animals — has been phased
out in the United States and many other
nations.
Ahead
of the 2015 United
Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, nine international business leaders from Aviva, The Dow
Chemical Company, Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), The Edge Picture Company, Fuji Xerox, Raptim Humanitarian Travel, La Macioche & Sky Television, came together to speak
out about why they take action offsetting carbon emissions.
Subterranean waste disposal, they point
out, is a cornerstone
of the
nation's economy, relied on by the pharmaceutical, agricultural and
chemical industries.