Description: George Bush tours Boston Harbor, purporting to be guardian of the environment, and criticizes Dukakis' lack of early attention to the polluted conditions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1988
Description: Canoeist Denny Alsop on his cross-state journey by river and lake to campaign for clean water. He paddles under a bridge and poles against the current.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/18/1988
Description: Canoeist Denny Alsop on cross-state crusade to point out pollution of rivers. Portaging over wetlands, gliding on Walden Pond, talking on cellular phone in canoe. T commuter train on tracks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1988
Description: Canoeist Denny Alsop on Sudbury River and Lake Cochituate on his cross-state journey to draw attention to contaminated waterways. Warning sign "Do Not Eat the Fish."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/21/1988
Description: EPA issues findings on contaminated seafood from Boston Harbor and Quincy Bay. Diseased fish and shellfish include clams, lobsters, flounder with viruses, tumors and PCBs. Rep. Brian Donnelly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1988
Description: In Quincy Bay, EPA finds flounder with cancerous tumors and lobsters with PCBs in their livers. Water life is contaminated by sewage pumped from Nut Island treatment plant. Men fishing from shore.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1988
Description: Reps. Susan Tucker and Mary Jeanette Murray take MWRA tour of Boston Harbor on Envirolab boat that measures pollution and examines marine life.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/01/1988
Description: Environmentalists defend Dukakis' record in response to Bush's attack on Boston Harbor pollution. Paul Tsongas, Sen. George Mitchell, William Golden
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/31/1988
Description: Huge spill of raw gasoline on partially frozen Malden River in Medford. Cleanup crews try to contain environmental damage. pollution.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/15/1988
Description: Lawsuit against state for failure to clean up harbor pollution is closed because of good faith plans to improve sewage treatment. MWRA. James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Michael Deland.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1988