This time, the danger came from powdered anthrax sent through the mail in small, but deadly, amounts.
Exactly what we are doing with fossil fuels: raze more forests, build more meat farms, expand industrial agriculture, produce more cement, and fill more landfill sites, all of which will pump deadly amounts of greenhouse gas into the air.
Apparently, Charles Cullen, a New Jersey nurse who confessed to sneaking into hospital rooms late at night and injecting patient after patient with deadly amounts of drugs, is trying to exert his last bits of leverage from a solo cell in the Somerset County jail before he is sent away for life.
In their attempts to extract gold, deadly amounts of lead were released - it is thought that soil containing lead deposits was dumped in water sources and in places where children played.
"Even the gloomiest analysis [the pessimistic model] shows a significant gain in years of life if nicotine is obtained from vaping instead of much more deadly amounts of toxicants inhaled with cigarette smoke," Levy said.
As a Western Resource Advocates report found, the coal generated by LA and California consumption results in some of the highest emissions of deadly amounts of mercury, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide pollution in the nation, uses up desperately needed and costly water, devastating the quality of life in the Four Corners area of Arizona and Utah.
Kris Brown, co-president of US-based Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, told VICE the arguments about how vans and knives can be just as deadly as guns amount to a red herring because the vast majority of mass murders that take place on American soil are carried out with guns.
As the historian David McCullough notes in "The Path Between the Seas," the nine-mile cut was "the special wonder of the canal," a project so arduous and deadly that it amounted to a seven-year battle, consuming more than 61 million pounds of dynamite, a "greater amount of explosive energy than had been expended in all the nation's wars".
