Word: epa
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...string of court victories and regulatory clearances that is still unbroken. After years of floundering, Harvard and MATEP have begun to look like winners. Following Fierra's decision, Harvard immediately set to work on hurdling the plant's last regulatory obstacle--approval from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)--which it did successfully, if not gracefully...
Herbert Wiser, an EPA science adviser, called the findings no more than "mildly suggestive." One problem, added Shelby Tilford, NASA'S chief of atmospheric processes, is that the amount of ozone may fluctuate with variations in the sun's ultraviolet radiation. To help settle the argument, Harvard's James G. Anderson plans to launch a huge balloon, 450 ft. in girth, in New Mexico next fall. Equipped with a battery of sensitive devices, its gondola will move up and down like a yo-yo through the upper atmosphere, between altitudes of 12 miles and 25 miles...
...only decimating the coyote population but also destroying untold numbers of dogs, foxes, birds and other animals that happened to eat the tainted meat. Livestock herders, who expect that the Reagan Administration may be less concerned about those environmental considerations than its predecessors, are now asking the EPA to reverse the ban on Compound...
Last week the ranchers loudly argued their case at EPA hearings in Denver and outside Washington, B.C. Said Donald Meike, board chairman of the National Wool Growers Association: "Every method of counting shows an increased loss of sheep." But John Grandy IV, executive vice president of Defenders of Wildlife, contended: "Returning to 1080 would bring back the specter of mass, nonselective killing of animals...
Reduced Penalties. Polluters would no longer be required to use state-of-the-art technology to achieve the lowest possible emission rates. States would no longer face federal sanctions for failure to submit approvable antipollution programs to the EPA...