Word: epa
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Dockery said their findings may help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set new pollution standards...
...EPA has been aware of four studies for quite a long time," Dockery said. "As the EPA undergoes its next review and reevaluation, the recent findings on measurable health effects will be evidence suggesting the need for new standards...
...EPA warning: places featured in "Under the Cushions" are ecological sanctuaries. Although they might be news to us, they are a haven for some. Regulars at L&P's loft expressed their concern about damage to their environment due to exposure. So if you choose to go, conduct yourself accordingly. I suggest tweed for easy assimilation...
...then that the EPA mandated that the village lay new pipes, erect a sewage-treatment plant, close the dump and build an incinerator. While the EPA eventually footed $18 million of the initial $32 million expense of the treatment plant, the village was forced to raise utility bills to pay the rest, and the costs associated with the improvements continue to climb. That helped bring Key West's cost of living to the highest level in the state, forcing many "conches"-native Key Westers-to move away. Even so, John Jones, the village engineer, admits "it was something the city...
...EPA admits to being overzealous at times and points to corrective steps now in the works, such as changing the 11-day rule in the wetlands definition. But environmentalists contend that reform is not what's on Republicans' minds. Says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope: "The agenda they have set is not to fix these laws but to weaken them...