Word: epa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poughkeepsie was the first city to act on the NYPIRG report, setting aside $250,000 for a new water purification system that would filter out carcinogens, Hang said. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given cities along the Hudson little assistance in coping with the problem...
...Velsicol Corporation began production in 1976 of another pesticide, EPN, which scientists suspect is twice as toxic as Phosvel. EPN and Phosvel have the same chemical base. The EPA has recommended the EPN be banned from the United States. At present, several major companies manufacture EPN, the largest being DuPont Chemical Company...
Plant employees carried the Kepone home with them and contaminated their families. The plant was closed in 1976, but the EPA has discovered that another firm, Allied Chemical (of which Life Sciences is a subsidiary) has been dumping Kepone in the James River in Virginia for over a decade. Fish samples taken during the '60s showed traces of Kepone, leading scientists to believe that many people have low levels of Kepone in their blood. The long-term effects of Kepone are unknown, but recent discoveries have enabled humans to rid their bodies of the substance quickly...
There are no short, stubby brunettes in California?it is an EPA regulation?so Tiegs' kind of beauty is called, in the shorthand of the business, the California look. It is not simply a matter of height and blondeness and blue eyes. Her cheekbones are set wide under a tanned breadth of untroubled forehead, and the result, by some trick of geometry, is a face whose expressions are astonishingly warm and open. Her great length of shank and neck give a powerful impression of health and muscular strength, and there is a sense of physical well-being conferring a benison...
...include an economic impact statement and it is often submitted to state environmental offices for their comments. Costle always asks subordinates: "Have you looked at alternative ways, including doing nothing?" Though Carter's well-touted zero-based budgeting has gone nowhere in most agencies, it has worked well at EPA. Holed up in a windowless room for three weeks, officials constructed a new budget from the bottom up; for example, they shifted half the funds for noise abatement to a program for screening drinking water for toxic chemicals...