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Although Castellano could have been more careful, the dangers inherent in rowing on the Charles are immense and often unavoidable. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared the Charles River 200 times too dirty for boating and 1,000 times too dirty for swimming earlier this year. Castellano explained that "there's not much you can do, when you're out there in practice and getting splashed all the time." It is telling that Governor William F. Weld '68 was rushed to a hospital after jumping into the river for a publicity stunt to prove its cleanliness last summer...
...demands, but in this case, it is wasting its breath. The staff may as well be calling for imagined fairies named Harvard University and the city of Boston to wave their wands and render the river sparkling. The town of Milford is working to revamp its waste systems, the EPA has warned people, and crew teams producing world-class rowers need a place to practice. This is an unfortunate situation that many people are working to remedy. We believe that the staff is being unreasonable...
Vowing to continue the fight against air pollution, Carol Browner, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposed an increased commitment to reduce national levels of pollutants in the air last night at the Kennedy School of Government's Arco Forum...
Before a crowd of approximately 300 people, Browner discussed recent EPA proposals that call for a revision of the national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter and ground level ozone--better known as soot and smog...
Last week, two days before a court-ordered deadline, the EPA made its move. In a decision that EPA chief Carol Browner calls one of the most important of her career, the agency proposed tough new standards on both particulates and ground-level ozone, a major component of smog. The standards will save 20,000 lives a year, according to the EPA. Under the new rules, however, dozens of cities that meet the requirements of the current Clean-Air Act would suddenly fall out of compliance...