It isn 't the pox that menaces us any more, or the plague. It's strange new creatures of our own making, and they are all around usin the air, our water and food, and in the things we touch.
Russell Train, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Thousands of Americans are already suffering the grim consequences of excessive exposure to such chemicals as asbestos, vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which canand too often docause metabolic disorders, birth defects or even cancer. But now there is hope that many others may be spared such...