51. The expectation, they said, is that in a few months or perhaps years Pyongyang would allow the inspections of the nuclear waste sites. 52. The GAO recommended that the EPA improve day-to-day operations and maintenance of contaminated waste sites. 53. The groups suspect landfills, contaminated drinking water, toxic waste sites and pesticides may cause cancer in people living nearby. 54. The low-level waste site is needed, state officials said, because of federal mandates that states find long-term burial plots for the waste they generate. 55. The man was a stranger, a panhandler who lived in a cardboard shanty along the edge of a toxic waste site in Benin in West Africa. 56. The North also agreed to special inspections of its waste sites, though not immediately, to clear up questions about possible past diversions of nuclear fuel. 57. The Senate on Tuesday failed to pass an amendment that would uphold a Department of Interior regulation limiting the size of mining waste sites to five acres. 58. The Senate wants to overturn a five-acre limit for mine waste sites on federal land. 59. The state also must clean up its galaxy of toxic waste sites, which taint groundwater and keep that resource off limits for drinking, he said. 60. The suit was filed after a campaign by schoolchildren, homemakers and politicians forced Texas to halt construction of a nuclear waste site across the border near El Paso. |