Word: cleanup
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...Environmental Protection Agency seem only to compound. Two internal reports came to light last week that are not likely to assuage public worries about how well the EPA is protecting the environment. One, commissioned two months ago, is an in-house EPA review of the $1.6 billion hazardous-waste cleanup program known as Superfund. Its conclusion: philosophical conflicts about bureaucratic strategies and efficiencies led to major problems. Infighting between headquarters and regional offices, said the report, effectively stopped the program from going forward. It cast official bickering over procedures and a preoccupation in Washington with saving money in terms...
Acting on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department last week filed suit, in collaboration with California, against 31 of the polluters, including such corporate giants as Stauffer Chemical, Rockwell International, McDonnell Douglas, Weyerhauser and General Electric. Object: to recover the costs of a total cleanup, which is expected to reach $40 million. The Justice Department denied that the suit was instigated by the White House. But as the largest hazardous-waste case ever filed by the Government, it will inevitably appear as an attempt by the Reagan Administration to prove its new toughness on protecting the environment...
Farrell's resurgence at the plate was perhaps the brightest spot in the batmen's performance. The beffy cleanup hitter endured a one-for-13 slump in the team's doubleheaders against Penn and Columbia last weekend. Yesterday he roared buck with a four-for-six outing that lifted his batting average from...
According to legislative observers, the chances are good that Cambridge will be reimbursed to some extent for its cleanup...
...Stringfellow site has been at the center of charges, under investigation by the FBI and congressional subcommittees, that former EPA Administrator Anne Burford last year withheld federal cleanup funds from California for political reasons. Newly appointed EPA Head William Ruckelshaus is doing his own kind of tidying up: his aides are busy screening candidates for top EPA jobs, almost all of which are now vacant...