The World - News from Dec. 4, 1986
The West German Cabinet approved a crackdown on the nation’s chemical industry, blamed for a recent series of toxic chemical spills into the Rhine River. It decided to restaff its accident commission with independent technical experts and also endorsed a revision of pollution laws to require reporting of accidents involving a broader range of poisonous chemicals. There have been at least eight toxic leaks into the waterway in the last two months.
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