Word: epa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years ago," contends New Jersey Democrat James Florio, who as a Congressman from one of the most seriously contaminated states became the key author of the 1980 Superfund law. "It's much, much greater than anyone thought." Concedes Lee Thomas, the third director of the scandal-tarnished EPA during the Reagan Administration: "We have a far bigger problem than we thought when Superfund was enacted. There are far more sites that are far more difficult to deal with than anybody ever anticipated." That comes as no surprise to Barry Commoner, the venerable environmental gadfly. Says he: "We are poisoning...
...given priority in any national cleanup. The cost, OTA estimates, could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites may require corrective action. So far the EPA has put only 850 dumps on its priority list (see map). In its five-year effort, it managed to clean up only six sites and, critics protest, not very thoroughly at that...
...congressional watchdogs claim that when EPA finally does tackle a waste site, it seeks only a stop-gap solution to the chemical seepage. When a dump is cleaned up, its wastes are often merely shifted to other locales, "which themselves may become Superfund sites," the OTA report says. "Risks are often transferred from one community to another and to future generations...
...cars. Dr. Barry Henderson, an Atlanta physician, has a Jaguar XJ6 on his shopping list, a burgundy-colored four-door sedan. "You can get a Jaguar in the mid-20s," he says, "and they're at least $35,000 in the U.S. You have to have it modified for EPA regulations, but the savings outweigh the modification costs...
Some oil companies complained that the EPA ruling gives them too little time to retool their equipment to produce fuel that meets the new standards. As a result, the producers warned, temporary shortages of low-lead gas could occur...