Word: epa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancer, and the Environmental Protection Agency found in 1975 that it drastically alters bone growth and bone composition in fish, birds and animals. Yet it is still applied to livestock and just about every food crop in the nation, including soybeans and a wide variety of fruits, even though EPA has banned its use on lettuce and cabbage crops, which are less lucrative for growers and refused to certify toxaphene's safety for permanent...
Another pesticide frontrunner, ethylene dibromide, was years ago shown to cause some chromosome damage, to induce tumor formation, and to cause reproductive problems in several species. The EPA has only begun to look at the pesticide's safety, even though EDB is used on peaches, grapes, beans, peas and other fruits, as well as soybeans and cotton...
...engine, for example). What he really wants is a decent replacement for his air-conditioned, 8-m.p.g. '71 Chevy Impala. He was pretty disappointed when the so-called Moodymobile raised hopes and made headlines by getting from Florida to Washington, D.C., at 84 m.p.g. only to flunk its EPA emissions test...
...Mankato, like many others, failed to meet the EPA's minimum emissions standards. The best diesel got 89 m.p.g., the best gasoline entry only 56. Poor old Wisconsin, Stout, apparently could not keep all that wonderful, inexpensive hydrogen from leaking out of its canister and never got going long enough to complete a road test. The disconsolate car owner makes a date with his local garage to tune up the old Impala...
...giants. Yet Bradshaw noted that his powers, like those of every high corporate executive, are severely limited: "Every decision made at my desk is influenced by some and sometimes most of the following: environmentalists, consumers, tax reformers, antinuclear protesters, the constraints of Government, the DOE [Department of Energy], the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission], the FTC, the state governments, the municipal governments, the effect on inflation, on labor union attitudes, and on the OPEC cartel...