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riX'AiZX.lSWS W -"4T FIELDS I" STREAMS /.s'*;V;i.. ` By Dan CmAc ' - "*. ',' . Pollution'Score' .... , , . Although pollution 1 one of the moot aerlous issue, : of th* day. mayfce they ahould <et up a football-type acoreboardfor It. Mil (he score 124, poUutenr heed. ; Our side, Public, 'sewed when the Mpnaanto Company, only VS. producer of group of environment all,,y p. ersistant echmemmicals known to chemists as polychlorinated btoheails, announced ft Is restricting pro* ducUon end (i^ftanfng controls over their handling and disposal. PCB't, as they are called tor short, have been in use for mors than 40 years and have been Aow* tng tip with alarming regularity hi tests am wildlife. In the tuts, PCB's were confused for some time with DDT. The two resemble in their chemictl structure. :; The public outcry led to Mon* ; DAN COOK eanto's action. It is commendable. < This chemical will no longer be used to "open systems." These are described as adhesives, sealants, chlorinated rubber, paelalty paints and other similar Hems. H will be limited to j , "dosed systems" such at electrical transformers and capad- lors. - - In this lock et pollution on the national scene, however, (be Folhfler# adit hold the lead on the basis of findings to the Mississippi River. /; , Other pollution cara still unchecked are numerous. / I The testimony presebted on Aug. 2W7 before (he Senate Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources and Environ- I merit, s group chaired by Michigan Senator Phillip A. Mart, f indicate* mere's plenty battle room for congressional heroes to . the war on poftation. . .. The testimony lends to erase any belief that mercury con* tamlnaUen of cur lakes and streams was a mere fluke. It erases (he (bought (hat (his was an isolated case of one metal by-pro duct which happened to slip cut the back door of Industry. Toxic substances such as lead and arsenic were discovered dumped into (be Mississippi- . 1. Leod Found ' 1 Conservation News, an educational service cf the National Wfldttfe Federation which reported the congressional proceed* tags, labels II an-*11l^ft-uiMl*yioiMtm-ine" attitude. ' Almdlt 214 tons of tod Is bring discharged dally Into th lower Mississippi between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, ac- cerdit^ to (he report * v'< , : . The Interior Department's Federal Water Quality Admini stration officials have named the Ethyl Corporation (producer et gasoline lead additives) its the leading polluter with lead. Other firms have been Indicted. .' Dr; Harry gchreeder, prafessor of phySUlegy ef Dart- meuth Medteat School, expressed the oenous awe cl toxic . metalpoDntton. -- *1 must emphasise," he said, "ttutt onvlroftmontri poBu- ` ttoo iff toxic tnaUlt Is rneoh more neriouft and much more lnridtotta prdblem-prituUcMi by organic socstances duch as ' peettcidea, weed kfllere. sulfur dioxide, oxides Cf nitrogen, | carbon mMxndda and other grass contaminant^ of sir and wa* ; "Ihe importance of this problem is lUustrsted by the fact 1 that rata and mice spending Coetr Uvea In au environment eon* I trailed as to metafile coqtnmtaaUoa live 2025 per cent longer ' than do animals to the CMtamhurtnd environment of the usual animal quarters." ( ;; - . ......... r-. NEWS-FREE PRESS CHATTANOOGA, IEHN. 1 ______ R 63,139 . _ . , OCT 41970 Qto. MONS 032376