Environmental Research Foundation . . P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403 . . Subscriptions are free. To subscribe, E-mail the words . . An important shift is taking place in the environmental movement in the United States and, indeed, around the world.
Dioxins are supremely toxic by-products of many industrial processes, especially incineration.
The new global treaty has the potential to change the way the chemical industry is allowed to conduct its business world-wide. International arenas are offering new opportunities to curb the power of corporations. As a class, POPs create problems that can only be solved on a global scale. POPs are persistent in the environment. POPs travel like grasshoppers, rising into the air, settling back to earth, rising again, moving on air currents.