11.   But now the issue is chemical waste and crude oil leaking from the growing glut of huge ships passing through the narrow waterway that separates Europe and Asia.

12.   Chemicals found in products like carpeting and particleboard may pose greater long-term environmental hazards than industrial chemical wastes, a study has concluded.

13.   Clean-up operations to contain the spillage of hazardous chemical wastes have begun.

14.   Despite laws governing urban development and environmental protection, increasing volumes of raw sewage and chemical waste are being pumped directly into the waterway.

15.   Discarded drugs are a particular problem, as they are considered chemical waste and their disposal is strictly regulated.

16.   Each was charged with assault and battery in connection with the improper disposal of dangerous chemical wastes and the disposal of hazardous materials without a license.

17.   Kajima had hesitated to bid on the project after discovering there was chemical waste on the project site, Iwamoto said.

18.   One of the earliest environmental laws, NEPA foreshadowed later statutes dealing with air, water and chemical wastes.

19.   One, San Jose, was recently depopulated abruptly while the United States began to clean up chemical waste left there during World War II.

20.   Pending its approval, the Energy Department is planning to bury barrels that are only radioactive, with no chemical wastes.