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Platt, Anne E. – World Watch, 1994
Discusses the environmental problems posed by the development of coastal tropical forests and other lands into golf courses that use more pesticides per hectare than agricultural land. (MDH)
Descriptors: Ecology, Economic Development, Environmental Education, Herbicides
Regenstein, Lewis – USA Today, 1983
The Reagan Administration has crippled laws and agencies set up to cope with the toxic chemical crisis. Cancer and other dangers from dioxin-contaminated herbicides, dioxin waste disposal, pesticide exports, and cancer-causing consumer products are discussed. We are sowing seeds for future epidemics of cancer, deformed children, and Love Canals.…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Cancer, Environmental Standards, Futures (of Society)
