Word: epa
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...formidable contrarian is Bruce Ames, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. He contends that obsessive concern with cancer-causing chemicals in foods, pesticides and toxic wastes has produced a regulatory tangle at EPA and a superfluous Superfund to clean dump sites. Government restrictions on man-made chemicals are absurdly stringent in proportion to ; their risk, says Ames. He notes that while the public panicked last spring because of trace amounts of the synthetic growth regulator Alar found on apples, many fruits contain natural carcinogens in concentrations 1,000 times as great. Observes Ames: "Eating vegetables and lowering...
...California, Berkeley, points out that naturally occurring carcinogens in many foods -- cabbage, broccoli and oranges -- are much more potent than traces of man-made pesticides. "Most of us are more secure with respect to basic survival than we were a generation ago," says Ann Fisher, manager of the EPA's Risk Communication Program. "We're now in a position where we look with fear at what might once have been thought of as less serious dangers...
William Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the EPA and now chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
...guaranteed to be effective for 50,000 miles, be beefed up to last 100,000 miles. Other alterations would range from adding a microchip to monitor a car's pollution controls to expanding a charcoal canister that catches evaporating gasoline fumes when a car's engine is off. The EPA estimates that such improvements could raise car prices as much as $200 by 1996 and $500 more...
...EPA is cracking down on sloppy work. Last week the agency filed suit against 34 organizations and individuals in eleven states, charging them with failure to notify the government of their work or handling the asbestos in a dangerous manner. Among the accused: the New York City Board of Education. If found guilty, the defendants could be forced to pay $25,000 in fines for each day of each violation...