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Back in 1994, at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Borden Chemicals, accusing the company of a series of environmental-law violations. Among the charges: the company stored hazardous waste, sludges and solid wastes illegally; failed to install containment systems; burned hazardous waste without a permit; neglected to report the release of hazardous chemicals into the air; contaminated groundwater beneath the plant site (thereby threatening an aquifer that provides drinking water for residents of Louisiana and Texas); and shipped toxic waste laced with mercury to South Africa without notifying...
Each year the EPA compiles a catalog of the toxic chemicals discharged into the environment. Congress ordered the accounting after a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing thousands of people--and after the company released a smaller quantity of an equally toxic gas from its plant in Institute, W.Va., less than a year later...
This fall may be one of the best times to buy a new car, with low prices and high rebates. And when it comes to the gas tank, some good deals are better than others. Among 1999 models on the EPA's brand-new mileage survey, Chevrolet's Metro offers the best bang for your buck, with 47 highway m.p.g., followed by Suzuki's Swift, Honda's Civic and Toyota's Paseo...
Since the letter was written, there has been some progress, Ellenbogen said. A four-agency team including representatives from the EPA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Forest Service has assembled to discuss chip milling and make a full recommendation...
...late 1980s, though, the EPA banned the so-called organochlorine pesticides as being too toxic. That left termite fighters with a badly weakened arsenal. Even then, Formosan termites might have been controlled with an all-out effort, but few experts understood how grave the problem really was. (One exception, according to a multipart series on the termite threat that appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune last week, was Louisiana State University entomologist Jeffery LaFage; tragically, he was killed in a robbery just as he was rallying support for a termite-treatment program in the French Quarter a decade...