Word: epa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inhaled, swallowed or brought in contact with the eyes. The fact that small children often swallow household cleaning agents increases the threat. Last year alone, 3,900 such poisonings were reported, and last month a 15-month-old Connecticut girl died from eating a non-phosphate detergent. Says an EPA official: "When you weigh the death of a child against the possible death of a lake, there's no choice. The human health factor has to outweigh any environmental damage...
...Drug Administration or should more properly be considered part of a community's water supply and therefore in the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency. A bill pending in Congress, sponsored by Democratic Representative John S. Monagan of Connecticut, would help solve the dilemma by giving the EPA authority to set uniform standards for all bottled water...
...refineries and chemical plants. So bad is industrial pollution along the Houston Ship Channel-a 50-mile-long passage from Houston to the Gulf-and in Galveston Bay that the Environmental Protection Agency openly attacked the Texas Water Quality Board last June. In a 200-page report, the EPA charged that oil and hydrocarbon residues, fecal matter and toxic metals in those waters are all grossly in excess of natural background levels...
...wastes into U.S. waters. The act stipulates that persons and corporations shall not dump wastes into navigable waterways without first obtaining permits. To get permits, they would have to comply with stiff guidelines on dumping which were to be set down by the Environmental Protection Agency. Last week the EPA threw in the sponge; there will be no national guidelines. Instead, said a terse EPA memorandum, regional officials will set their own standards...
Will Detroit succeed in time? Last week in a report prepared for Congress, William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, gave his official view. "Although it is very early for any predictions, it appears that progress is being made in controlling the emissions," he said. "EPA is moderately optimistic...