New Jersey: Nerve Gas Disposal Creates a Political
Submitted by Templar Titan on Mon, 04/19/2004 - 03:21.
New Jersey: Nerve Gas Disposal Creates a Political
Dilemma
(Wilmington, DE, News Journal <http://www.delawareonline.com/>
)
"The military science is clear to the Army brass, who must destroy the United States' stockpile of VX nerve agent," reports the News Journal. "Chemists at the DuPont Co. say their science is safe and their huge New Jersey treatment plant will make the wastewater a harmless addition to the Delaware River. But the political science may prove the most volatile part of the equation. Elected officials must try to balance election-year pressures with environmental concerns, international treaties, national security, global economies, local business considerations and, especially, the well-being of their constituents and other living things."
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