The SEC, he said, has often updated its assessment of what constitutes material risk for investors, beginning with new environmental criteria following the Love Canal toxic dump scandal of the late 1970s.
Last week an American firm whose plans to build a toxic waste dump had been blocked used chapter 11 to win damages from Mexico.
Even though Tampa Bay fans treat the Trop as a toxic waste dump all year, even for big games at the end of the season, history shows they tend to show up once the Rays are actually in the playoffs.
True cost economics is the answer, not finding global hidey holes to dump toxic materials and get away with it.
That is true in an obvious sense when, for example, companies dump toxic waste or use risky technologies in countries whose regulation is relatively lax.
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They have seen the imposition of any measures designed to slow economic activity rather as they might look at a toxic-waste dump: vital for the greater good, to be sure, but better in someone else's backyard.
If manufacturing companies had avoided the urge to increase their profits by taking short cuts that led them to spew harmful chemicals into the air or dump toxic byproducts into the waterways that serve as the source of our drinking water, President Richard Nixon, a Republican, would never have been inspired to sign the executive order ratified by Congress that created the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Dense smoke laden with toxic dust from rubbish burnt at the dump billows for miles around.
But in some areas, sediments are so polluted with toxic chemicals, such as mercury, that the mud must be stored in a dump.
Neighbouring South Korea expressed concern that it was not warned about TEPCO's decision to dump low-level radioactive waste into the sea to make room to store more toxic stuff on land.
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