Congress has been wrestling with chemical security standards for over a decade and it is now the Senate's turn to pass common-sense measures that reduce the risk of a catastrophic release of poison gas.
While global mercury emissions are on the rise, negotiators, unfortunately, appear to be leaning towards a treaty with soft measures unlikely to prevent continued catastrophic impacts from this deadly and debilitating poison.
This much poison is bound to cause something catastrophic.
The health effects caused by arsenic poisoning in this area is as catastrophic as any other natural calamity that occurred throughout the world in recent times.
"This is of catastrophic, almost Armageddon proportion, that an American city has been poisoned," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md .. Her voice rising, Mikulski shouteD-Md .t's get real".
But on Sept. 29 they accused Wall Street of supporting foreclosures, encouraging inequality, undermining the agricultural system and poisoning the food supply, stripping employees of healthcare, pay and negotiating rights, determining "catastrophic" economic policy, blocking alternate energy sources, and more.
The conversion of cell residual water into ice at sub-freezing temperatures by the water retention/accumulation mechanism and the access of poisoning contaminants through the water transport mechanism are considered to fall into the catastrophic category.
Here, doctors concluded that Litvinenko's baffling symptoms – hair loss, a catastrophic decline in white blood cells, vomiting – were probably caused not by a bug, but by radioactive thalium poisoning.
There has been a catastrophic decline in farm wildlife in the past few decades, as a result of grazing, drainage, sheep dip residues poisoning the streams and farmers' clearance of habitats.
