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...permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants had to be modernized to meet federal standards. The seven companies under fire decided to dodge these guidelines by claiming multimillion-dollar upgrades were routine maintenance, according to EPA administrator Carol Browner. The government is demanding speedy upgrades in all the offending plants and is looking to levy millions of dollars in fines...
...feigning surprise, but to many, the lawsuits were long overdue. "The EPA has been dealing with a long list of languished initiatives that were forgotten during the environmentally lax Republican administrations," says TIME environment editor Charles Alexander. The EPA came on very aggressively under Clinton, says Alexander, and Browner has been particularly effective. And it's not just these seven companies who are taking note of the change in the political weather. "Business is paying more attention to environmental laws these days," adds Alexander. "And these lawsuits will definitely bolster the Clinton administration's image as being tough on environmental...
Environmental Protection Agency chief CAROL BROWNER is in for an angry letter from some Congressmen this week. At issue: "serious, perhaps even illegal" behavior on the part of EPA senior scientist ALAN RUBIN, author of the 503 Sludge Rule, which declared municipal wastes safe for spreading in forests and farmlands...
Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner is in for an angry letter from some congressmen this week. At issue: "serious, perhaps even illegal" behavior on the part of EPA senior scientist Alan Rubin, author of the 503 Sludge Rule, which declared municipal wastes safe for spreading in forests and farmlands...
...answer is a quick and unequivocal yes, and there's plenty of evidence to back him up. Thanks to Gore, the Clinton Administration is the most pro-environment in a generation. Gore has placed staunch allies in top environmental positions, most notably his one-time Senate legislative director, Carol Browner, as boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, where she has been a tenacious pollution fighter. The next proof of that will be tough new EPA proposals, expected by the end of the month, for regulations mandating cleaner gasoline and lower limits on auto pollution, particularly from sport utility vehicles...