Word: epa
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NOISE POLLUTION. Congress approved a bill giving the federal Environmental Protection Agency two years to set new standards for major noise sources like motor vehicles and construction equipment. After a separate nine-month study, the EPA will recommend new aircraft- and airport-noise limits, which will be implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration. If signed by the President, the bill takes a giant step forward in the quest for quiet...
...enforcer," said President Nixon when he appointed William D. Ruckelshaus as the EPA'S first administrator. The clean-water act uses him as just that. His biggest job would be to police the efforts of the individual states, which would be directly in charge of the cleanup. The states would issue permits, written to meet EPA standards, specifying limits on every plant that discharges wastes into waterways. If a state is too lenient with a polluter-violations can cost $25,000 a day (plus a year in jail for plant officials)-the EPA chief could intervene and even take...
Precisely how much trouble remained to be seen. Legally, the EPA could force Ford to begin a new round of tests, delaying production of its '73 models for as much as two months. But since some 170,000 Ford employees would be thrown out of work during the wait, EPA Deputy Administrator Robert Fri said that it would be "cruel" to go that far. Instead, the agency might let Ford produce and ship new cars on schedule but force it to withhold them from the market until final certification; that would preserve jobs but could badly hurt Ford financially...
...automakers therefore requested a one-year extension of the deadline, but EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus last week turned them down. After considerable study, he said, he had concluded that the technology for cutting pollution was "probably adequate," and that the automakers "have adequate lead time to apply this technology." If automakers cannot meet the deadline after efforts pursued in "good faith," Ruckelshaus said, then they may ask again for an extension...
...quality agencies finally concluded in 1970 that the taconite tailings were killing the organisms on which the lake's fish feed. But it was not until last year that Ruckelshaus formally demanded that Reserve present a plan to stop polluting the lake within six months. According to an EPA-sponsored study, one solution would be to dump the taconite inland, but Reserve said no. The mining company offered instead to pipe the taconite directly to the lake bottom, where it would supposedly form a harmless reef. That was not the answer, said Ruckelshaus...