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He apparently was overcome by the variety of toxic gases and the oxygen deprivation that likely occurred.

Rusty Gregory

The California Gold Rush left us a tragic legacy. We appreciate state parks' willingness to take action to end Empire's toxic legacy of contaminating our watershed.

Carrie Mcneil

Everything is non-toxic and easy to clean. And because of that we get a lot of birthday parties and both kids and adults coming in on dates.

Nate Morse

Hazardous materials or toxic materials are a real threat.

Patrick Libbey

[The marital separation may be toxic to more than the couple. Its emotions can spread through a workplace.] Co-workers can take sides, ... That really can mess up an office.

Bill Ferguson

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

Bill Hayden

We try to recycle those components because they contain toxic materials that we don't want in the landfill.

Paula Clark

We need better information on survival rates and recruitment rates of mourning doves. But we have to look at the availability and efficiency of non-toxic shot.

Jay Roberson

They can kill you with the bacteria, with the toxic mold.

Rosemary Shahan

Generally, (Evergreen) releases them in bursts, like when equipment breaks or (through) other pulp mill problems. And if you're breathing (PM-10s), they can lodge very deeply in the lungs and are absorbed in the blood stream and can have very toxic effects on the body.

Patty Clary

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people, ... He was up to his waist in toxic muck.... I'm not going to comment on Sean's trips to Iraq or Iran, but in this case, he was an American hero.

Douglas Brinkley

When I say toxic, I mean it, because these sites are filled with heavy metals that cause nearby watersheds and groundwater to be filled with mine drainage.

John Dawes

Other traps say they're non-toxic, but on the back, it says, 'Keep away from children and pets,'.

David Webster

They said they have no special suits and equipment to battle the thick smoke and toxic fumes from inside the tunnel. They told us they will come back in two days, waiting for the poisonous gas to blow away.

Franco Tito

There's a medical side of that and a recovery side for the parents. We don't know about the toxic effects of methamphetamine.

Jeffrey Greene

Had the technology to dispose off the toxic ship been cheap and easy, the French themselves would have taken care of the ship instead of giving away the business to India.

Vandana Shiva

Emotions tend to be contagious. Toxic ones leak out into the workplace affecting more than just the person afflicted. It can poison a team, a workplace, an organization.

Peter Frost

These residents are frightened. They woke up one day and found out that they are living in a toxic waste dump. They have learned that they had been drinking water that can cause cancer. They are rightfully scared for their well-being and for the well-being of their children.

Gary Kendall

The new data adds $100 million to $150 million on top of that projection [that sales would double] because even though there's less efficacy, it's less toxic to heart patients.

Matthew Geller

Unfortunately, this may be one of the last years when the public gets a complete picture of toxic pollution.

Meghan Purvis

It becomes toxic when it strips a person of hope, damages their self-esteem or detrimentally affects their self-confidence.

Peter Frost

We found consistently less than one microgram of accessible lead in these vinyl lunch boxes. That is not a toxic level and it is a low level.

Patti Davis

Since 1990, we've significantly cut toxic emissions and risks in the United States. This tool will help EPA and states refine our understanding and approaches to further reduce air toxics.

Bill Wehrum

Ninety-nine percent of the compounds rejected for drugs is because they are so toxic. That's a problem we don't have.

Robert Carlson

So someone came on the floor and said if you can walk you should leave, ... We thought we were in serious trouble. None of us wanted to walk in the water. It looked like a toxic soup. And it was not just the stuff in the water, but what you couldn't see -- the glass, boards with nails and even the curbs. We decided if that's the way out, we'll have to walk through the water.

Royce Osborn

It's extremely benign because you're not adding anything to the body that's toxic.

Bernard Rimland

We know that these chemicals are toxic. And we know that they're exceeding the levels the government has set for these chemicals in water.

Richard Wiles

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Daphne Zuniga

If needed, we are ready to take back all the toxic waste from Clemenceau to France.

Dominique Girard

There's a pattern that is noxious and toxic to the traditional American way of life. This is not good for American people. You're losing food safety and property rights simultaneously. And the beneficiaries of this are not human beings with a conscious. They're corporate boardroom financial reports.

Pat Trask

Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease have no cure and no effective therapy. Since the mutation initiates coding for the defective, toxic protein, we feel that it is likely that a successful effort to stop the steps leading to mutation will likely stop the progression of disease.

Cynthia Mcmurray

Gore helped strengthen clean air standards, sped cleanup of Superfund toxic waste sites, reduced automobile tailpipe pollution and protected America's spectacular landscapes, ... This is the kind of leadership the American people are seeking in our next president.

Robert Cox

We'll make sure we tailor the implementation for you. Our goal is that every kid in the county is riding on a non-toxic school bus.

Fred Wright

The public asked to be protected from toxic mercury and the governor delivered.

Jason Barbose

We need to eliminate toxic chemicals from baby products to give our children the right start. Our government should give parents the information they need to adequately protect their children from toxic chemicals, and ultimately remove toxic chemicals from children's products.

Meghan Purvis

People want a strong, light, and porous material, which is almost a contradiction in terms, but nature does it. Bone is made from calcium phosphate and collagen, which are both extremely weak. But nature mixes them together at room temperature and without toxic chemical to create something that is very tough -- this fascinates us.

Antoni Tomsia

If there are just a few seed heads out, then forget it. Manage it like you normally do. But if your field is full of seed heads, then mow it. If it rains in May or June, the new growth will be leafy and less toxic than the fields not mowed.

Craig Roberts

If we don't do something completely stupid like gut the Magnuson Act or release some toxic load, it looks like nature has given us this second chance.

Fred Felleman

Mercury is toxic.

David Kirby

The compounds are very flexible, they don't solidify, they're stable, non-flammable, non-toxic and they pose no threat to the environment.

Robert West

Whether the delay-specific 'tab' for GE shareholders is $122 million--or even more of the $800 million of PCB-related costs--the bottom line is clear: this is a staggering amount of money and an astounding use of corporate funds to postpone the inevitable. The fact is that GE will have to clean up its toxic PCB pollution.

Sister Pat Daly

The fact is that the whole city is now a potential toxic dump or brownfield.

Robert Bullard

NSAIDs have their own risks. So, we have to be careful even with lower doses and we still need to watch the patients very closely if we intend to keep them on these drugs for extended periods of time. But we are aiming to find doses that are less toxic and far more tolerable for the patient.

David Feldman

They're very flexible. They don't solidify. They're stable, nonflammable, non-toxic and they pose no threat to the environment.

Robert West

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

Douglas Brinkley

The objective will be to correlate specific air-toxic data from the state with relevant cancers in the Houston area and compare it to Dallas (another large metropolitan area).

Ann Coker

This is a toxic chemical.

Linda Thompson

From our perspective, we're less concerned with how you pay for it than in getting these toxic products out of the waste stream. The end result is what matters.

David Pringle

The interactions we discovered in yeast could also help researchers select the human versions of these genes suitable as targets for the development of new, more targeted and less toxic cancer therapies.

Jef Boeke

Ultimately, the knowledge we gain about gene-environment interaction will lead to new drugs and therapies to prevent or treat cancers, and improved environmental regulations that protect humans and animals against toxic exposures.

William Schlesinger

At this time in my life, I'm not so interested in playing the same TV movie again about toxic waste or anorexic children. I'm much more interested in going outside of the box.

Lynda Carter

We do not know whether toxic materials have been burned, ... It's possible, it's even likely to some extent, but it's not something to be panicked about.

Greg Mello

We're pushing back against the criminals by aggressively shutting down the labs and making it harder for the crooks to get the supplies they use to cook this toxic drug, ... Now we must concentrate on fighting meth trafficking as well.

Roy Cooper

Maine has effectively eliminated all household products that contain mercury from store shelves and the waste stream. Maine?s ?can-do? common sense approach is leading the nation in reducing the toxic mercury in our environment.

Brownie Carson

There is a power plant on North Lake that uses toxic chemicals, that's no secret. Are those chemicals released into the lake or on the property? We have a right to know.

Robert Hager

The longer these flood waters sit there and toxic deposits build up that need to be cleaned up ... the longer the recovery line.

Laurie Johnson

We'll be putting a list of the items on our Web site soon. In the meantime, more information is available at the California Integrated Waste Management Board and Department of Toxic Substances Control Web sites.

Luke Serpa

This is the largest civil administrative penalty EPA has ever obtained under any environmental statue. Not by a little, by a lot. EPA takes violations of toxic substances laws seriously and is committed to enforcing those laws. This settlement sends a strong message that companies are responsible for promptly informing EPA about risk information associated with their chemicals.

Granta Y. Nakayama

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I think it's important to recognize the distinction between methamphetamine and other drugs out there. They could blow up your house. If children are present in that house, children are being exposed to toxic hazards. There's no cocaine registry because people don't make it in their basement.

Blake Harrison

The primary environmental concern is that it does give off toxic gas in a combustion situation.

Paul Ross

These actions are outrageous and demonstrate the toxic level that political cynicism has reached in state government.

Bill Burga

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

Andrew Weil

If trials in the Canning River prove a success, the team plans further tests in other famous water bodies in Australia's great cities which are similarly afflicted by toxic blooms.

Grant Douglas

Mike has observed many of these things, and he's avoided the less toxic elements of those various personalities.

Sandy Clough

We see low- to moderate-income communities that are distressed from exposure to environmental hazards such as pollution, waste and toxic building practices.

Bob Taylor

We do not use cyanide or mercury in our process. Our mine tailings are simply finely ground natural rock and are non-toxic.

Siddharta Moersjid

People feared there would be toxic pits. The data we have seen so far doesn't support it.

Jerry Fenner

A group called Toxic Audio would be the last place a person would expect to find the types of a cappella sounds that our group creates.

René Ruiz

In safety, it's not going to happen by magic. You have to hold people accountable, for having meetings, doing inspections, and fixing problems you find. You have to pay attention to the tools you use, the equipment, the materials, and the environment. You can't give them broken tools and expect them to be safe. You can't give them toxic materials.

Alan Quilley

Bhopal was a more dramatic example but this sort of thing happens every day all round the world--a lot of them are unseen disasters, even right here in the Bay Area people are poisoned by industries. It's a slow death--heart problems, respiratory problems, and cancer. You don't see people die overnight but the toxic effects of major industry are felt worldwide.

Pratap Chatterjee

It's a truly toxic environment, ... We don't go into deep water, just where it has receded.

Patrick Mcgreevy

It was a sleepy gathering, not yet the make-or-break event for filmmakers that it would become, The festival was regarded by many distributors as toxic.

Peter Biskind

In addition, spacing out alcohol consumption will allow your body's enzymes a better chance to keep up, and likely reduce toxic side effects. A simple strategy to accomplish both is to alternate alcoholic beverages with something like seltzer.

Dr. David L. Katz

Many of the intermediate materials for nano are toxic, so the question is how you manage that process.

David Chen

I?m living proof that toxic gas was not dropped on us that day. Nobody showed any signs of exposure to toxic gas.

Michael Rose

This smoke is very toxic … it's really thick, and anything like that will drop you to your knees pretty quick once you take a few breaths.

John Manning

There is inconsistency in the information about the toxic waste.

Claude Alvares

By evolving in an environment of antibiotic production, incredibly resilient bacteria must develop diverse ways to survive or resist the toxic antimicrobial compounds produced by their neighbors.

Dr Gerry Wright

I feel so much better now that I know it's not toxic and that our park is not going to be closed and our kids can still come here because it's a busy park!

Mary Lavook

While dealing with one public health threat, we don't want to create another one. These pesticides are toxic chemicals.

Matthew Wilson

By allowing the fire to burn, the pesticides and herbicides have been able to completely combust, which pretty much gets rid of the toxic effects of those chemicals.

Steve Zweigart

He not only cares about how things are made and if they are recycled and making sure they are non-toxic, but he also cares about the people who make them.

Alisa Gravitz

All of that was a toxic political brew and ultimately it exploded in his face.

David Taras

We want to get the things that are toxic or flammable out of the house.

Angela King

The fact that PFOA can cross the placenta from the mother to child is very troubling, given the fact that this is a chemical that is broadly toxic and linked to birth defects in lab animals.

Jane Houlihan

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal, ... Just as sexual harassment was ruled by the courts to create a hostile work environment for classes of employees protected under EEOC and Title VII laws, so toxic language poses similar legal liabilities. Companies are being sued today for the language used by bosses.

Art Bell

What's semi-toxic for Clinton was raising money for the library while he was still in office and letting people know, by the way, we're open for pardons, too. We never solicited Mr. Cox's application.

C. Boyden Gray

It's a bacterial, or septic, soup, but it's not a toxic soup.

Darin Mann

[On March 22nd, 2005, DRG Records released a compilation of Toxic Audio recordings titled] Word of Mouth ... Album of the Year.

Toxic Audio

For those who smoke cigarettes, marijuana has 50 percent more tar and volatile cancer-inducing compounds, ... It causes emphysema, changes hormones, changes a whole bundle of things. It is quite a toxic chemical.

Keith Green

We recognize the fact that Project Green is an important initiative, but that being the case, we want to focus in on let's recognize that [carbon dioxide is] not a greenhouse gas and it's not toxic, ... But we are continuing to look at technological improvements, such as capturing and storing CO2 in a positive way.

Guy Boutilier

The fish is even more dangerous for people than toxic water.

Lyubov Kondratyeva

There's no FEMA. No Red Cross. No help. People are sick. The water is like toxic gumbo. We're the forgotten little town that got blown away.

James Gibson

There are a lot of toxic work environments in local government, and it's because of inequity issues that sprout up. I believe that just as performance teams and empowerment energize an organization, equity issues sap energy, and you have to deal with those.

Frank Myers

We have realized that we are not alone in our fight against DuPont and the environmental contamination it causes. DuPont must take steps to protect workers, communities and the environment from dangerous and toxic chemicals.

Becky Gillette

We owe it to future generations to ensure that toxic chemicals do not destroy the frog or the wetlands it depends on. These pesticide-application buffer zones are reasonable and effective protection.

Brent Plater

It's troubling. It means the public and environmental protection agencies like us will have less information about toxic substances being released into our environment.

Steve Owens

We don't see the very elevated levels of toxics that would make you think of this water as toxic waste.

John Pardue

The Clemenceau issue is just the tip of the iceberg, and a dirty one at that. Loads of other toxic stuff is dumped.

Sunita Narain

The toxic soup is touching every square inch of the flooded areas.

Paul Farmer

The comparison with PCBs suggests that toxic flame retardants have emerged as a major environmental health concern, ... PBDEs could be as potent a problem as PCBs, which are still polluting people and the environment decades after they were banned. In order to avoid the same outcome with PBDEs, we need to act quickly.

Clark Williams

Mold is everywhere. There are 1,800 types of toxic mold ... Mold gets triggered by water and it needs food, like paper, wood, cardboard and fiberboard.

Joseph Tomaselli

The male suffered some minor first- and second-degree burns to his arms. But the most life-threatening injuries were due to the toxic smoke the two inhaled.

Fire Capt. Emmit Kane

Therefore, predators who learned to associate either the bright colors of the less toxic or more toxic model frog species will avoid the mimic of the less toxic model frog. So, the mimic of the less toxic frog receives double the protection from predation.

Catherine Darst

These are all state of the art technologies. It's a very stable and non-toxic system.

Jim Benson

The toxic cocktail of pesticides in our drinking water can't be addressed by the chemical by chemical regulatory approach of government. Citizens can take action at the local level to reduce or eliminate pesticides in their own back yard, in their local parks and schools.

Jane Nogaki

Since 1990, we've significantly cut toxic emissions and risks in the United States.

Bill Wehrum

The guide was developed to give people a concise resource for identifying the most common weeds in home landscapes and choosing the most effective and least toxic weed-control option.

Skip Richter

We see that, peeling paint, as a potential for lead poisoning and a toxic threat.

Jackie Hayes

The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount of Presidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin can conceal the truth about the steady downward spiral in our national security since President Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq.

Edward M. Kennedy

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Evan Hirsche

State and some federal officials have been consistently denying there are any significant risks from the toxic mud that has spread across the city. The data they themselves have collected show that, to the contrary, there are significant risks from arsenic and toxic chemicals that have blanketed much of New Orleans.

Erik Olson

We worry that most of the city of New Orleans could end up being a toxic waste site.

Erik Olson

Everyone knows that a bad relationship can be toxic and a good relationship can be magical. We're looking to infuse a little more magic into the lives of these children.

Eric Benker

Facilities that use toxic chemicals such as styrene must follow our reporting rules so that area residents and emergency response personnel are informed of possible chemical hazards in the local environment. This penalty should remind others that we are maintaining a close watch over chemical reporting practices and are serious about enforcing community right-to-know laws.

Enrique Manzanilla

I'm very pro-environment, but let's figure out how to do it better and not jump through a dozen hoops to achieve what is obvious in the first place. There should be a categorical exclusion [for Falcon] just like airplanes that use non-toxic propellants. That would be a huge improvement.

Elon Musk

Hopefully, these reference materials will also provide consumers with another tool that can assure them that the products they buy and use are not adulterated in any way and don't contain harmful levels of potentially toxic substances.

Elisa Zied

We know there is a toxic cocktail that results when you put Ford explorer and Firestone tires together.

Edward Markey

This decision is a great disservice for people who live around large factory farms. It basically gives these farms a free ride on the backs of the public. There's really nothing in this that holds the polluters accountable for the toxic air emissions they release.

Ed Hopkins