Word: epa
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...There is sufficient parking for employees even with the cutbacks." Samuel Gilfix, a spokesman for the University Parking Office said last night Gilfix said his office was treating the ruling as only temporarily suspended because the EPA has yet to officially submit to his office an alternate plan. The EPA ruled last year that employers with 50 or more workers reduce employee parking space by more than 25 per cent...
Before the EPA ruling a lot of the space were empty anyhow," he said, because of a Cambridge ordinance that set a minimum requirement on parking spaces...
Harold L. Goyette, director of the University planning office said yesterday that the increased parking rates have no bearing on the compliance with the EPA regulations. "They are intended only to shift some of the costs from the Faculty to the user," Goyette said...
Henry Ford II estimates that if the tough 1977 rules are not postponed, they will add $750 to the cost of a car and further depress sales. (The EPA estimates the added cost at $250 to $350.) In addition, GM's Murphy contends, "If you set emission standards higher, there's got to be a sacrifice of fuel economy." The EPA disagrees. Astonishingly, a study it released last week argues that there "is no inherent relationship between exhaust-emissions standards and fuel economy." The best guess now is that Congress will push back the 1977 regulations...
...EPA Administrator Russell Train expressed "shock" at the company's decision, saying: "Our intention is to clean up, not close down this facility." The cost of the fine, he figures, comes to an additional 94? per worker per day, and 75? per ton of steel produced. Unemployment benefits, on the other hand, cost the company $7 per day per laid-off worker. Train urged U.S. Steel to "reconsider" its decision. But the company still refuses to pay the fine, and the EPA refuses to accept any compromise solution. Both sides apparently fear setting precedents that might influence their future...