Word: epa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EPA announces and proposes but is haunted by the past...
This summer the EPA learned that the chemical had contaminated water supplies in some communities in Florida, Georgia, California and Hawaii. And studies showed that traces of EDB in fruits and vegetables did not decay completely as had previously been thought. Last week, three years after the EPA first circulated draft rules governing the chemical, the EPA announced an emergency ban on soil injection of EDB, only the second such action in agency history, and moved to stop fumigation in 30 days. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also announced a new, stiffer exposure limit for the estimated...
...hearings of the House Government Operations Subcommittee, Democratic Representative Mike Synar of Oklahoma charged that John Todhunter, the former head of EPA'S pesticide program who was forced out earlier this year, had delayed regulating EDB as a favor to agribusinessmen. Synar brandished a letter Todhunter wrote in June 1982 to Florida Representative Andy Irelanda, in which the regulator argued the growers' side of the case, stating, "It is important to your state's citrus exporters that EDB not be phased out unless there is an alternative available." Todhunter dismissed Synar's evidence as proving nothing...
While the EPA mess has been in the spotlight, the struggle over regulations and their enforcement has been just as fierce in three other agencies...
...substantially worse" under Reagan. A critic, Democratic Congressman David Obey, member of a subcommittee dealing with health, admits that OSHA has "shown surface movement in the past three months," but contends that it is only because "Auchter doesn't want to wind up in the same boat as EPA...