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...both sides settled into the legislative agenda, the White House was moving quickly on other fronts. Within the first few months the Administration helped strike down workplace-safety regulations, tried to make it harder for people to declare bankruptcy, froze stricter regulations governing road building in wilderness areas and arsenic pollution, and rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty over the objections of Bush's own EPA chief, Christie Whitman. Democrats were appalled by what they saw as a hard right turn. The Bushies suggest that Democrats just got mad at being outmaneuvered. "Democrats think he's not nearly as smart...
Wilson has continued to work with needy countries. Currently, his focus is the arsenic contamination crisis in Bangladesh. According to Wilson, Bangladeshi wells are contaminated, the government is paralyzed by its own problem and international calls for help have gone unanswered for seven years. “I decided to work independently, with a small group with a small amount of money and demonstrate what could be done,” Wilson says. “It’s been the worst man-made environmental disaster in the world, probably 50 to 100 times more disastrous than Chernobyl...
...over an hour from Boston, across from an elementary school in the heart of Fairhaven, Mass., sits the Atlas Tack Company. More than 7,000 people live within a mile of Atlas. More than 15,000 live within three miles. And for more than twenty years, Atlas released cyanide, arsenic and other toxic solvents into an adjacent marsh. Then in 1990, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials finally put the site on their National Priorities List for cleanup under the Superfund program—a landmark initiative from 1980 that used to force polluters to pay for the damage they...
...Whitman's successes - promulgating regulations that slash diesel pollution and issuing fiats forcing General Electric to clean up part of New York's Hudson River -? may eventually outlive her struggles. But White House reversals on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions and last-minute, Clinton-era rules for regulating arsenic in drinking water smashed her credibility with environmental groups early in the administration. The White House has yet to name a successor or indicate when it will decide...
...SENTENCED. MASUMI HAYASHI, 41, former insurance saleswoman; to death for killing four people and sickening 63 others after serving arsenic-laced curry to her neighbors at a summer festival in western Japan following a heated dispute in 1998; in Wakayama. Dubbed by the tabloids as the "the poison woman of the era," Hayashi sparked off a wave of copycat poisonings throughout the country. Hayashi pleaded innocent, though arsenic collected in and around her home matched that found in the curry...