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Mourning “The Meadow”

Description: Back of the Hill CDC holds mock memorial procession to mourn destruction of The Meadow in Mission Hill, highest elevation in Boston, to be turned into a parking lot. Sen. Royal Bolling, Sr., speaks. Poetry reading, dirge, eulogy mark somber occasion. New England Baptist Hospital expansion blamed for violating state environmental policy. Pan of threatened green space adjacent to hospital. ‘No trespassing’ sign behind chain link fence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1984

Myth of degradable products

Description: Products labelled degradable are often not, and will remain garbage in landfills forever. James Shannon wants these claims removed. Sea gulls fly over trash heap. Packages of disposable diapers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1990

Natural gas alternative

Description: Dukakis proposes generating electricity by burning natural gas. Douglas Foy says it is too inefficient & backward method of conservation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/03/1988

Neponset River polluter

Description: Grant Gear Co. is responsible for cleanup of PCBs dumped by previous tenant into Neponset River. Contaminated oil barrels. Route 1 in Norwood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/19/1989

New Hampshire tires

Description: New Hampshire must find solution to the accumulation of over a million tires which pose environmental hazard. Dump site full of tires.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1989

Newspaper recycling

Description: Volume of newspaper offered for recycling exceeds demand of paper mills. Recycling plant interior. Bundles and piles of newspapers. People dropping off bottles, cans, and paper at bins.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1989

Nuclear weapons testing danger

Description: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War releases study on ill effects on the environment of radiation from nuclear testing. File of atmospheric bomb tests. IPPNW.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1991

Oil spill

Description: Cleanup of no. 2 diesel oil spilled in Quincy Harbor. Suds on surface of water. Pump on dock. Jet-Line Services oil pollution control tank truck. Seagull on pier. Vacuum barge. Wide of bay. Estimated 28,000 gallons spilled. Interview with Mike Downey of Coast Guard Marine Safety Division says oil spills not unusual in state and talks about method of cleanup. Man in hip boots and rubber gloves wades in water with pitchfork. Brown residue visible near surface. Interview with fisherman Tom Galgana about secret clam flat and lobster grounds being damaged by spill for at least ten years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1979

Opposition to Scheme Z

Description: Conservationists object to Scheme Z interchange in Central Artery project. Boston Sand and Gravel yard near train tracks into North Station. Many shots of expressway from afar.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1990

Peddocks Island

Description: Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor is proposed as prison site, but Ilyas Bhatti & John DeVillars want to preserve it for its park land, old brick buildings and fort.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1990