Word: epa
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Much of the backlash was directed at the EPA, where more than a dozen...
Reagan appointees have been replaced, chiefly because of evidence that they were too receptive to the pleas of industries that may have been violating EPA regulations. The uproar over EPA prevented the Administration from pushing legislation through Congress that would have softened the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, which have technically expired but remain in effect until Congress acts either to kill or to renew them. Both are now likely to be strengthened...
...EPA's new administrator, William Ruckelshaus, has ordered that waste dumps be cleaned up first and the costs assessed against polluters later, reversing his predecessor's practice of delaying cleanup until EPA could work out a deal with the offending companies. He has asked for 1,100 new employees and a budget increase of $265 million; Congress added an extra $30 million...
ACQUITTED. Rita M. Lavelle, 35, a former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; of contempt of Congress for failing to testify in March about her management of the EPA hazardous-waste-cleanup fund on the ground that she was "emotionally and physically unable to attend," after less than two hours of deliberation by a federal jury; in Washington. Dismissed by President Reagan in February, Lavelle still faces possible perjury charges for earlier congressional testimony...
...Meselson went to Vietnam in the midst of war to monitor the usage of Agent Orange. In recent years, he has been an advocate of greater government attention to Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliant. This spring, the biochemist's name appeared on an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hit list of some 90 scientists singled out for exclusion from EPA advisory boards because of their liberal political views...