Nature's way with dioxin.In reference to your report "New accord targets long-lived pollutants" (SN: 12/16/00, p. 389), dioxins occur in nature. I quote former Washington governor Dixy Lee Ray Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914–January 2, 1994) was the seventeenth governor of Washington State in the United States, and the first woman to hold that position (for one term, from 1977 until 1981). and coauthor Lou R. Guzzo in their book Environmental Overkill overkill Vox populi An excess of anything (1993, Regnery Gateway): "The fact that dioxin dioxin Aromatic compound, any of a group of contaminants produced in making herbicides (e.g., Agent Orange), disinfectants, and other agents. Their basic chemical structure consists of two benzene rings connected by a pair of oxygen atoms; when substituents on the rings are is found widespread in nature, is formed whenever organic material is burned (for example, during forest fires This is a list of notorious forest fires: North America Year Size Name Area Notes 1825 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) Miramichi Fire New Brunswick Killed 160 people. ), and is broken down chemically by microorganisms in the soil does not seem to faze the regulators." Bogus science will wind up killing more people than it will ever help. Shelton, Wash |
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