Word: epa
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...concentration was five times the safety level recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ground-water studies conducted by the EPA in 1982 traced the TCE to dumping at the Cryovac plant, which is owned by the W. R. Grace & Co. industrial conglomerate...
...Protection Agency finally proposed a program to phase out all use of the carcinogenic mineral within ten years. Agency experts calculate that the ban would save some 1,900 lives during the next 15 years. "I believe there can be no debate about the health risks of asbestos," said EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas...
Stymied for more than six years because of objections from the Office of Management and Budget (which monitors agency regulations), the EPA's complicated phaseout will be analysed for a year before taking effect. Even then, it would not apply to any asbestos products already in place but would ban future sales of the material in roofing and flooring, tiles, cement and clothing. Other asbestos-related products would be labeled as such. Replacing asbestos with more expensive substitutes should cost consumers about $1.8 billion through the end of the century...
...Friday--As of yet, no Commencement speaker has been selected. Finalists are rumored to be: newly appointed Ambassador to Ireland Margaret M. Heckler, former EPA administrator Anne G. Burford, and the Walker family...
That may soon change. This month the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to approve a limited experiment, to be conducted by California-based Advanced Genetic Sciences, in which genetically altered organisms will be allowed to enter the environment. The EPA believes that the fears about ecological damage are unfounded...