Word: epa
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...EPA grant, totaling more than $700,000 over the next two years, will fund a cost-benefit analysis project of federal environmental regulations. Officials said this money will definitely not be cut because the EPA has allocated it under an executive order by the Reagan administration...
Researchers have not set an agenda for the EPA-sponsored project, David Harrison, associate professor of City and Regional Planning and a principal investigator, said...
...Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week promised a total of about $2 million to a Kennedy School of Government study center for research on air pollution and the effects of environmental regulations...
...ducks and geese, Environmental Protection Agency standards allow only a maximum daily intake level of 0.3 parts endrin per million. Tests in Montana showed concentrations up to four times greater than that. It looked like a solid case against hunting until the EPA chimed in to announce that its own standards provide a margin of safety "100 times higher" than the dosage that would affect a normal person. "A 60-lb. child could eat a whole teal and still be five times below the 'no effect' level," said an agency spokesman. To that, National Wildlife Federation Toxicologist George...
...Governor responded by asking the EPA to re-evaluate its policy on endrin use and petitioning Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for more money to monitor the problem in Montana. The state fish and game commission, meanwhile, conducted studies of toxin levels in 100 game fowl and announced that it would decide whether or not hunting could go on. Most hunters, busy polishing their shotguns and checking their decoys, would not comment on the situation...