“By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.” NeedsHas BeensTogetherPastNamesWasteCleanEnvironmentalCongressListsPrioritiesFormerFundChemicalsAbandonedPollutionSiteManufacturingNotoriousEpaLandfills Book:Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment Source: Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
“We certainly ... hope that the Congress will act in an appropriate fashion and not waste its time with ineffectual, sham legislation on Keystone XL that has no impact on the price of gas and is irresponsible because it, as we've said before, tries to legislate the approval of a pipeline for which there is not even a route.” TryingSaidFashionWasteImpactCongressGasAppropriateApprovalLegislationRoutesIrresponsiblePipelineKeystones Author:Jay Carney
“Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.” ActionNationsAnimalCommonClearWasteCleanCongressFarmersSiteLiabilityHazardous Waste Author:Ike Skelton
“Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers” PeopleDoeUsedTimeLiteratureNamesSocialLosesMoralAirDangerWastePaperDeserveLettersCongressDareContemporaryCategoriesSovietFourthThreateningFacadeContemporary Society Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.” LongSometimesMatterDealsSpeechWasteImportanceSorryCongressLawyerGentlemanApologyI Am SorryAm SorryPrecious TimeChicanery Author:William Whipple
“There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.” LiteratureWasteCriticismMeetingsCongressWasting TimeConferences Author:Fredrik Bajer