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SILICON VALLEY FEARS TOXIN IS FAR WORSE THAN FIRST BELIEVED
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:21:57 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: "Jonathan M. Smith" <jms () central cis upenn edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:13:05 EST To: farber () central cis upenn edu Subject: FYI: SILICON VALLEY FEARS TOXIN IS FAR WORSE THAN FIRST BELIEVED from The Chicago Tribune SAN FRANCISCO -- In Silicon Valley, the land of technological whiz kids, astronomically expensive bungalows and glorious palm trees, the underside of the computer revolution keeps seeping up--literally. The valley, located about 25 miles south of San Francisco, has been struggling for more than a decade to deal with semiconductor manufacturing solvents that have seeped into the groundwater, a problem that has made pricey Silicon Valley the home of the largest concentration of Superfund toxic waste sites in the nation. Now the news is worse: The Environmental Protection Agency said last week that the suspected carcinogen trichloroethene, known as TCE, may be many times more harmful than originally thought, and that vapors from the substance have been found inside homes and office buildings. <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0301280307jan28,1,466674 7.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsnationworld%2Dhed> ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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