Word: epa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite a remarkable achievement," says David Howekamp of the Environmental Protection Agency. Adds Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition: "It's a bold attempt to grapple with the real pollution problems." The EPA is expected to approve the Los Angeles plan and use it as a blueprint for a federal program that will include cities like Chicago and New York...
...NRDC report goes on to charge that the Government is failing to protect youngsters adequately from such dangers. It points out that current legal limits for pesticide residues, set by the EPA, are based on the consumption patterns and physiology of adults. Children eat a great deal more food for their body weight than adults. They also consume more fruit, which makes up an estimated 34% of preschoolers' diets, in contrast to 20% for adults'. Youngsters eat six times as many grapes, seven times as many apples and seven times as much applesauce as their parents. The typical preschooler drinks...
Many agree with the NRDC's basic contention that pesticide-residue limits need to be tightened. Says Dr. Richard Jackson, a member of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, which is examining this issue at the EPA's request: "The food tolerances are set on good agricultural practices. The Government does not adequately address the impact of pesticides on children." The baby-food companies have already got the message. Gerber and Beech-Nut, for example, do not use Alar-treated apples in their products, and pesticide residues on the crops they accept for processing into baby foods...
Under mounting pressure, the EPA has begun to take action. Last month the agency announced its intention to ban the use of daminozide by next winter and said that it was barring use of the fungicide captan on 42 crops. Some find the Government's response too slow. California's Democratic Representative Henry Waxman and Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy plan to introduce federal legislation that would force the EPA to act quickly to remove dangerous pesticides from the food supply...
...anxiety surrounding asbestos is based on its deadliness in massive doses, but many researchers contend that low levels of exposure are not necessarily hazardous. Since the mineral occurs naturally, trace amounts can often be found in fresh air and water. Yet the EPA has said that the only guaranteed safe amount of airborne asbestos is zero...