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...safeguarding the environment has not exactly been one of its highest priorities, the Reagan Administration last week began a refurbishing of the Environmental Protection Agency. First, EPA Administrator Anne Burford showed up in Missouri with a dramatic offer to buy out the homes and property of residents of the dioxin-poisoned town of Times Beach. Then, after Burford left for speaking engagements in California and Arizona, the Administration put the broom to the EPA, sweeping out of office two top officials who were under investigation and appointing five top deputies. Democratic congressional leaders dubbed it the "Wednesday-night massacre...
...much choice," says former Times Beach Mayor Charles Yarbro. But many insist they will go permanently only if they get what they consider a fair price for their property. And some, no matter how attractive the federal buyout money, still want to stay, the health dangers notwithstanding. "The damn dioxin doesn't bother me as much as the river," insists Michael Keeler, 42, a lifetime resident who owns a four-bedroom ranch house. Says Gerald Johnson, 51: "If we are forced out, then we're forced out. But we will not volunteer to leave our home." Wayde Dake...
...daughter at home and two married children living within a few blocks. "When we go on a two-week vacation, I get homesick." And those who have left cannot easily forget what they went through. "I worry still about illness that may come up later from the dioxin and whether my kids will be able to have kids," says Keith Young, 29, who already has started life anew 25 miles south in Ware, Mo. But he feels that one indignity is behind him. "Before, some kids didn't want to touch our kids if they found out we were...
With toxic wastes posing health hazards to hundreds of thousands of Americans, the EPA has a task crucial to the nation. Just last week the Agency had to spend over $30 million to buy the entire town of Times Beach. Mo., to protect its 2500 former inhabitants from poisonous dioxin, a suspected carcinogen. With 14,000 dumps to monitor and clean up, the EPA has its work cut out for it. Yet Burford has been remarkably reluctant to begin the task in earnest...
...been exacerbated by recent actions of the Reagan Administration. As part of its deregulation craze, the current Administration lately took steps to ease the control of cancer-causing substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ostensibly the watchdog of the environment, markedly loosened its regulations in dealing with the recent dioxin contamination crisis at Times Beach, Mo. The FPA established much higher acceptable exposure levels after the crisis than those dictated by previous risk assessments. This recent backslide in the regulation of carcinogens reflects the same problem manifested in the misdirection of cancer research--a dangerous lack of attention...