Word: epa
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...role, giving individual states much greater freedom to decide not only how, but whether, to clean up polluted air. The law now requires the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene if states fail to come up with satisfactory plans for cleaning up their air; the proposed changes would make EPA action discretionary...
...Administration has not yet detailed the changes that it will seek in the Clean Air Act. But, says Anne Gorsuch, the new head of the EPA, "We have to be very concerned with relative cost benefits...
...extension, the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) has been standing for quite some time, although it is still not fully operational. The giant plant moved closer this year to providing the energy it was designed to produce when Gov. Edward J. King requested that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) forego investigation of MATEP's environmental impact, a process mandated by the Clean Air Act, because MATEP is technically a non-profit organization and therefore exempt from the review regulation. The EPA last month decided in favor of the exemption...
...bias to the top environmental jobs. Interior Secretary James Watt, who as a Colorado lawyer used to battle the department he now heads, is only the most prominent example. Another Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules. Fellow Coloradan Robert Burford, chosen to head Interior's Bureau of Land Management, is a veteran of a land-hungry, anticonservationist movement collectively known as the Sagebrush Rebellion, which favors turning federally managed lands over to the states. Even John Crowell...
Linda Murphy, an EPA spokesman, said yesterday that the agency had received "40 to 50 letters" protesting the decision including one from the attorney representing Brookline and some of its residents...