California
In response to “Wasting the World With a Plague of Plastic Debris,” by Donella H.
Oct. 7, 1989
World & Nation
The greening of U.S. trade policy is taking place in an unusually harsh environment: the gritty manufacturing corridors along Mexico’s northern border, where foreign investment has left a toxic backwash of untreated sewage and industrial waste.
May 12, 1991
Business
In July, 1991, Robert Petcavich amused reporters in San Diego by tossing a degradable plastic cup into a bowl filled with goldfish.
Sept. 29, 1992
An “urgency ordinance” approved unanimously by the City Council will require new businesses that handle hazardous waste from outside facilities to obtain conditional use permits.
April 30, 1991
By unanimous vote, the City Council approved an ordinance that will prohibit Stauffer Chemical Co. from opening a hazardous-waste incinerator without a city permit.
April 24, 1986
Pacific Waste Management Corp. has announced plans to reduce the size of its proposed waste-to-energy plant in Irwindale by two-thirds, promised to improve the plant’s pollution controls and abandoned an agreement that would have imported trash into the San Gabriel Valley from the South Bay.
April 30, 1987
Jack Gallagher wants to create a city from a handful of semi-rural communities in northwestern Riverside County.
Dec. 1, 1985
Greenspace
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March 10, 2010
A roundup of business developments spotted by other publications.
Sept. 12, 1990
Autos
Four days after the California Supreme Court upheld most of the features of Proposition 103 to cut insurance rates, five major consumer groups proposed a banner program for a nationwide consumer revolt against the auto-insurance industry.
May 8, 1989