Which is a good thing, because modern systemic pesticides have made them highly toxic.
Michigan's Kalamazoo River is polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic chemicals banned in the 1970s.
Serious concerns have been raised here over levels of highly toxic dioxins in the emissions from the plant.
Bush announced his support for a global treaty which calls for the elimination of a dozen highly toxic chemicals.
That's problematic because the therapy has a low success rate, and the highly toxic drugs often make patients sick.
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"Carbon tet", as it is known, is a highly toxic pollutant which is known to cause cancer and liver damage.
While reluctantly agreeing, Kazakhstan said it feared that highly toxic fuel had contaminated water and soil over a huge area.
The display case is sealed, not to protect the contents from visitors, but the visitors from the highly toxic relics inside.
Fumonisin and some other mycotoxins are highly toxic, causing fatal diseases in livestock that eat infected corn and esophageal cancer in humans.
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It said they contain large amounts of plastic and flammable insulation, which can cause large fires that spread quickly and highly toxic gases.
One contentious moment was when Jackson and the EPA told BP to stop using highly toxic chemicals in the Gulf to disperse the oil.
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Campaigners worry that incinerators produce dioxins (a highly toxic family of chemicals that can cause cancer and birth defects) and tiny particles of soot (also carcinogenic).
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The highly toxic H2S (hydrogen sulfide) and CO2 (carbon dioxide) are removed along with excess water to get the gas below 7 ppm (parts per million).
The authors say that they expect the use of highly toxic methods will continue to grow among small-scale miners as the price for gold continues to rise.
Welsh Assembly Government Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies has concerns about the cost of nuclear stations, their security, and the difficulties of disposing of highly toxic nuclear waste.
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AIDS. The council's scientists refused to let the drug be tested on humans because it is highly toxic, and because there is no evidence that it does any good.
Those that use photovoltaic collectors are also challenged on environmental grounds because they are manufactured using highly toxic heavy metals, explosive gases and carcinogenic solvents that present end-of-life disposal hazards.
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The propellants, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO), are highly toxic but they will almost certainly be consumed in the fireball that engulfs Phobos-Grunt when it makes its death dive to Earth.
Fire officials said Thursday afternoon that a hazardous materials team will deal with a store of highly toxic pesticides that caught fire at a Laguna Farms property near the university, according the Ventura County Star.
It seems in this highly toxic world of fast food, cheap and plentiful booze and lifestyle factors such as exhaustion and job stress, are making us reach for solutions that promise some sort of transformation and purity.
With plutonium no longer needed for use in the world's abandoned fast breeder reactor programmes and nuclear powers getting rid of their atomic weapons, large stockpiles of the highly toxic plutonium metal are starting to build up.
It aims to trap toxic free radicals, the highly reactive molecular fragments that are believed to spread damage several hours after a stroke.
It is timely and important for two reasons: first, the interest and investment in Shariah-compliant finance in the West continues to grow, and second, the fragile state of our financial system of late is due to the catastrophic impact of toxic financial products designed as highly sophisticated black box solutions to undisclosed market risk.
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Revolutionary at the time, RoundUp came to dominate the market because it was highly effective but broke down quickly, making it less toxic than other herbicides in common use.
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