Word: epa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House, which had reacted slowly at first, moved to stanch the political damage. With EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch facing a contempt-of-Congress citation, the Administration acquiesced to a plan to give a subcommittee of the House Public Works Committee full access to toxic-waste-enforcement files that Gorsuch had refused to yield. The subcommittee agreed to follow certain safeguards when reviewing the documents so that sensitive material will not leak out. The White House had claimed that the documents subpoenaed by Congress were protected by Executive privilege, but was prodded into a "compromise" by mounting public pressure...
...President also ordered the Justice Department to investigate whether EPA employees shredded subpoenaed documents and whether the agency's ousted assistant administrator, Rita Lavelle, violated conflict-of-interest laws. In addition, the Administration agreed to settle the case of EPA Whistle Blower Hugh Kaufman, who had charged that Lavelle and other agency officials had harassed him after he publicly criticized the EPA'S sluggish record on purging poisonous wastes. Kaufman's "unsatisfactory" rating was The struck and his pay made...
...alarming lack of attention to environmental causes of cancer has been exacerbated by recent actions of the Reagan Administration. As part of its deregulation craze, the current Administration lately took steps to ease the control of cancer-causing substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ostensibly the watchdog of the environment, markedly loosened its regulations in dealing with the recent dioxin contamination crisis at Times Beach, Mo. The FPA established much higher acceptable exposure levels after the crisis than those dictated by previous risk assessments. This recent backslide in the regulation of carcinogens reflects the same problem manifested in the misdirection...
...LONG AS the government continues its current deregulation bonanza, the incidence of cancer could continue to rise. The more lax attitude of the EPA underscores a more general insouciance towards carcinogens in our midst. For example, Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code allowes prospering companies--like the asbestos producer Manville Corporation--to use government funds to help pay the enormous liabilities incurred by worker suits. (Asbestos, an insulator, has been shown to cause lung cancer in humans...
...government conducts a little over half the research done in this country into the causes of cancer via the National Cancer Institute (NCI). And the NCI, which spent over $1 billion researching he causes of cancer in 1981, devotes a miniscule amount to investigation of potential carcinogens. Both the EPA and Food and Drug Administration refer suspected carcinogens to the NCI but the NCI tests only 26 suspected chemical carcinogens per year, according to a spokesman for the National Institute of Environmental Health Services...