Word: epa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants had to be modernized to meet federal standards. The seven companies under fire decided to dodge these guidelines by claiming multimillion-dollar upgrades were routine maintenance, according to EPA administrator Carol Browner. The government is demanding speedy upgrades in all the offending plants and is looking to levy millions of dollars in fines...
...reach its goal--"to make the river fishable and swimmable by Earth Day 2005" --the EPA announced it will allocate $200,000 in additional projects...
...EPA administrator John P. DeVillars said the report was timed carefully...
...EPA deemed the River this year suitable for boating 91 percent of the time, up from 39 percent in 1995. Its improvement in "swimmability" is even greater--a jump from 19 to 75 percent...
Regatta participants and others in the community have long had concerns about pollutants in the river. On Earth Day last year, Harvard joined the EPA and other universities and firms in formally resolving to clean up the Charles...