Word: epa
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...expect such protection for activities that are "visible to the naked eye" by police "traveling in the public airways." In the Dow case Burger went further, saying that a factory area was not comparable to a private yard, and that the $22,000 magnifying camera used by the EPA was not in the same league as high- tech snooping devices that might require a search warrant. The majority's course worried Lewis Powell, who spoke for the dissenters in both cases. The failure to protect privacy rights, he said in the Dow decision, "will permit their gradual decay as technology...
...currents could bring some radioactivity to North America, U.S. Government sources expressed little worry. "We don't expect any significant health effects in the United States," said Sheldon Meyers, acting director of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of radiation programs. Still, the U.S. is taking no chances. The EPA increased its measurement of airborne particulates from twice a week to daily in order to spot fallout quickly...
...suspended its permit to field test a preparation called Frostban, which contains re-engineered bacteria designed to retard the formation of frost on plants. The agency charged that the Oakland firm misrepresented data and violated the national pesticide-control law by conducting outdoor tests without a permit. (EPA officials had been alerted by newspaper stories initiated by the indefatigable Rifkin...
FOOTNOTE: *Under current, overlapping regulations, frost-inhibiting bacteria are considered microbial pesticides and must be approved by the EPA for field testing or use. Gene-spliced animal biologics and plants require USDA clearance; human and animal drugs need Food and Drug Administration approval...
While that ruling was being appealed, A.G.S. was proceeding on its own. Late in 1984 it applied to the EPA for a permit to test Frostban on a strawberry patch in Monterey County, Calif.; last November the agency granted A.G.S. permission to spray some 8 trillion altered bacteria onto the field. But unknown to the EPA, the financially struggling company had already conducted outdoor tests of Frostban...