Word: epa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Westerners are outraged at the EPA's costly new one-size-fits-all vehicle-emission standards, which they say make no sense in sparsely populated areas. "It's not fair applying Eastern, urban standards to rural areas," complains John Kelly, a policy aide to Arizona Governor Fife Symington...
...benefits of EPA strictures are often worth the cost. Key West, Florida, a tourists' lair with a permanent population of around 25,000, is a case in point. As late as 1987, the village pumped its raw sewage through leaking pipes less than a mile out to sea, where it was laying waste to the nearby reefs and fishing grounds. Outside town, a waste dump had grown into what locals called "Mount Trashmore...
...order directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to "streamline" the process for identifying new items with recycled content to be procured by the federal government. While the EPA met the deadline for proposing 21 new items last April, ranging from paper to carpet, six months later the recycled content standards for these items are still not finalized. Further delay only gives industry opponents of recycled content standards more time to lobby for weakening of the standards...
...time at Harvard: buying votes in a Republican Club election in 1992; conflict of interest and gross violation of council rules in deciding to run the council's general election as acting vice president in the 1993; and deciding to keep for himself a large grant from the EPA that he obtained in the council's name...
...reincarnation as a centrist is fully under way. The election- induced rush to the middle began three weeks ago, when Clinton announced he would contemplate a law allowing for a moment of silence in schools. The next week he boosted Pentagon spending by $25 billion. Last week top EPA officials met with Governors to ease automobile-emissions testing requirements. And the Agriculture Department, a virtual Harvestore of unnecessary spending, announced that it would close 1,274 field offices around the U.S. Though Clinton complained privately last week that he had already made dramatic cuts in government, some top aides pushed...