Word: epa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former employ ees. The executives, all of whom could face prison terms, are charged with con spiring to conceal from the Environmental Protection Agency the results of tests that showed that two widely used pesticides may cause cancer in humans. The indictment is the first ever sought by the EPA against a company for covering up adverse information about a product...
...chlor and chlordane. Velsicol, a subsidiary of Northwest Industries Inc., sells them to other firms, which market them under myriad brand names. They have been widely used by both farmers and homeowners against termites, fire ants and the like. According to the indictment, Velsicol, at the behest of the EPA, began studies of both chemicals in 1971 to determine what, if any, dangers they posed...
...EPA on its own gathered information and in November 1974 the agency announced it was drastically restricting use of the chemicals. That decision led to three years of public hearings. The chemicals are still being used by professional exterminators and to control fire ants, mainly in the South. Finally, in 1975, the EPA turned the case over to the Justice Department...
...authors, told TIME last week that he found tumors and severe liver damage in the mice tested but no satisfactory proof that the pesticides were a cause of cancer. Still, he believes that his findings were alarming and should have been brought to the attention of the EPA. The EPA'S action against Velsicol is likely to be the first of several of its kind. Agency sources say that other similar cases are now being prepared...
...course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...