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...injected the elms with genetically altered bacteria in an attempt to treat them for Dutch elm disease. The experiment had shown encouraging results, but it was, he acknowledged, an act of civil disobedience that was in violation of Environmental Protection Agency regulations. After receiving a reprimand from the EPA and a warning that any similar experiments in the next year must be co-sponsored by another investigator and receive special permission from the university, Strobel requested that the elms be disposed of to end controversy over his actions. His troubles, however, were not yet over. At week's end University...
Disturbing new evidence emerged last week that Strobel had released altered bacteria into the environment prior to his experiment with the elms. In an Aug. 10 letter to the EPA, Strobel admitted he had released a "new strain of Rhizobium meliloti . . . in South Dakota, Montana, California and Nebraska in 1983-84." The Rhizobium had been altered to enhance nitrogen fixation in alfalfa plants. Though it is not yet clear that those experiments violated regulations in force at the time, they are under investigation by Montana State and the EPA...
...treat cuts and abrasions. But now the substance has ended up in the middle of a bruising bureaucratic scrape. Last week a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that it lacked authority to order the Environmental Protection Agency to remove bacitracin from a list of 406 hazardous substances, where EPA officials concede that the drug landed by mistake...
...EPA peremptorily added the antibiotic to its hazardous-substances roll call in 1985, using misinformation from another agency. The listing sets strictures only on the warehousing of more than 10,000 lbs. of the substance in one place. Even so, it is particularly vexing to a leading maker of bacitracin, New Jersey-based A.L. Laboratories, which is fighting to have the EPA erase its mistake. EPA officials say their administrative process is grinding its way to a decision on whether to make the change. But even they concede that things could drag on for at least another month before...
Meanwhile, environmental groups protested the EPA move. Reason: distributors and pest-control companies can still sell or use the two-month supply of the pesticide they have in stock. Snapped Cynthia Wilson, director of the Washington-based Friends of the Earth: "It's a travesty...