Word: dioxins
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...midweek the "fresh start" fizzled. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer, who heads one of the six congressional panels investigating the agency, charged that Hernandez personally intervened to allow Dow Chemical Co. to edit a July 1981 agency report about dioxin contamination of two rivers and a bay near its Midland, Mich., plant. EPA officials agreed to Dow's suggested deletions of critical passages linking the deadly poison to fertility problems and birth defects, as well as the conclusion that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination" in the waterways...
Three Harvard professors attended an international conference in Vietnam in January that examined the impact of dioxin on the offspring of males exposed to Agent Orange...
Research done by Vietnamese scientists indicates a link between exposure to dioxin-faced Agent Orange and birth defects of offspring born to males who were exposed to the chemical American researchers, however, have yet to discover such a link...
...John Constable, associate clinical professor of Surgery, who attended the conference, said there is "sufficient evidence that unnecessary exposure to dioxin should be rigorously avoided," but additional studies are needed...
...Advisers James Baker and Craig Fuller were quoted as saying at midweek that, despite President Reagan's public expressions of confidence in beleaguered EPA Administrator Anne Burford, firing her had indeed become an option. The Administration had counted on its showy, if belated, one-two punch-buying out dioxin-tainted Times Beach, Mo., and bolstering Burford with five seasoned deputies-to cool the controversy that has paralyzed the agency. But it soon became apparent that the EPA tar baby was not so easily unstuck...