DEC's Maverick Speaks Out On DEC Leadership And Cleanup
Stone, 51, head of the Wildlife Pathology Unit near Albany, criticizes DEC mismanagement and urges changes. In a wide interview, he links Carousel Center cleanup to high level decisions, calls for faster, more protective action, and argues for stronger public outreach and lab upgrades. He also defends his actions against Pyramid and discusses broader state cleanup policy.
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Word Stone
Albany
State Department of Environmental Conservation
Carousel Center
Qit City
Mark Weiner
Stone
Department of Environmental Conservation
DEC
Thomas Jorling
Sierra Club
Syracuse Square
Mr. Jorling
OW City
Bronx
Utica
Pyramid
Bruce Kenan
PCB findings spark mall site health concerns in Syracuse
State investigator reports PCBs in puddles near the Carousel Center site in Onondaga County while nine of ten July soil samples show elevated mercury levels. DEC has said soil is non hazardous, but Pyramid partners cite cleanup costs and regulatory tensions as they near a planned October 15 opening.
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DEC
Carousel Center
Pyramid
Conger
Oil City
Syracuse
Q. Pyramid
Onondaga County
Onondaga Lake
Mall
Marley
New York
Sierra Club
Cnycosh
Central New York Council On Occupational Safety and Health
Carousel Mail
Ward Stone
Stone
Robert Conger
Dying girl's wish to visit Puerto Rico becomes final flight
A terminally ill New Jersey girl Sandy dreamed of flying to Puerto Rico to see her grandmother and feel the clouds from a plane. She prayed in a chapel at 3 a.m. and, despite pain, sought one last joy before burial there with relatives. Her caregiver and aunt spoke of the family’s turbulent past and missing father.
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Puerto Rico
Raisq Her
Minga
Angel Pena
Allendale
N.J
Sandy
Holly Popovich
Popovich
Carmen Candelaria
Candelaria
AIDS may hit 10 million kids worldwide by 2000
WHO forecasts that by 2000 at least 10 million children will be infected with HIV and another 10 million will be orphaned. Most victims will be in the Third World where AIDS becomes a major child killer. HIV is expected to spread to 25 to 30 million people by 2000, widening previous estimates that did not count children.
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Geneva
Switzerland
World Health Organization
Third World
Michael Merson
WEIO
WHO
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Syra
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Tam
New Yorker
Fila
New Mall
Pyra
Kenan
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