Word: epa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EPA report, released last week by the agency's New England regional office, indicates that none of the surveyed 81 miles of the Charles River meet EPA's class B standards of suitability for fishing or swimming...
...demise was followed by those of other insecticides. In October 1974, the EPA halted the manufacture and restricted the sale and use of two products that are highly effective against corn pests: aldrin and dieldrin, which had also been linked to cancer in laboratory animals. Last year, for the same reason, it placed severe restrictions on the sale and use of heptachlor and chlordane, effective termite killers. The EPA has also curtailed the use of Mirex, the pesticide that is most effective against the fire ant as well as harvester and Texas leaf-cutting varieties. Tests showed that the substance...
...circumvent Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Life Science and its two owners, Virgil Hundtofte and William Moore Jr., were charged with 153 counts of polluting the river. The town of Hopewell was named in three counts for discharging Kepone through its sewage-treatment plant and for failing to inform the EPA. If convicted on all counts, Life Science, Hundtofte and Moore could be fined some $3.8 million, the city of Hopewell $3.9 million and Allied Chemical $17 million...
...days after the California action, the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department sued Chrysler Corp., alleging that a few 1974 Valiants and Darts were equipped with combinations of emission-control equipment not certified by EPA. The EPA found exactly 42 such autos and asked for a fine of $420,000. Chrysler admitted to an "accidental production error," but protested: "The severe penalty for such a trivial incident is unjustified...
...problem for the automakers is that California and the Federal Government not only set different standards but use different methods of testing to see whether those standards are met. The EPA requires testing during a car's pre-production stage, long before it begins rolling off assembly lines. California, on the other hand, tests production-line cars. That difference will soon end; within a month the Government will adopt the stiffer procedure, also requiring tests of actual production vehicles...