Toxic emissions from the Exide Technologies plant have the potential to create "neurological changes, specifically a decrease in intellectual function in children," said Jean Ospital, health effects officer for the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Also on Thursday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, who represents communities around the Exide Technologies plant, called on Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint an independent expert to oversee the cleanup and a commission to investigate the ordeal.
Just a few months after the announcement by the U.S. attorney's office, soil testing revealed the mess left behind by decades of pollution from the Exide Technologies plant.
Despite the fact they are communicating diametrically opposed ideas, both al Qaeda and the incoming Obama administration mobilize others to spread their message through the internet, satellite television, blogs, and new other new technologies, planting the seed and nurturing, but not overtly directing, their growing swell of supporters.
Despite recent advances in sequencing technologies, plant transcriptome studies are still in their early stages.
TO save water, high-technology plants like the one in North Fulton will have to begin more processing of treated sewage water, sending it out to be consumed.
Investment in machines and high-technology plants abroad erodes the productivity edge that American workers hold over workers in China or Brazil.
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In this technology, plants themselves can produce the proteins and protect themselves from insect damage.
"When we started to bring a lot of the higher-technology plants over here, we had trouble finding enough skilled labor for those plants.
