Sentences with phrase «toxic remnants»

Their mission: to prevent workers from unloading so - called e-waste, the toxic remnants of computers and other electronic devices.

When a mile - wide tornado roared through Joplin, Mo., it killed 158 people and injured thousands, and it also kicked up toxic remnants from the city's industrial past that are still haunting its residents on the third anniversary of the disaster

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

Not exact matches

But much of the debate in the race to succeed City Councilmember Bill de Blasio revolves around what to do about a remnant of the area's far grittier past — the notoriously noxious and toxic Gowanus Canal.

A toxic liver loses its ability to eliminate chylomicron remnants.

His pictures of these manufactured landscapes document the ravages and remnants of industrialization as well as the rejuvenating forces of nature, where trees and grass implausibly grow out of the often toxic waste.