Word: epa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rowers in this weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta will compete in the cleanest river in the event's history, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week...
...University makes its final preparations for the event, the EPA announced that the Charles "is clean enough for boating almost all the time and clean enough for swimming a great majority of the time...
According to the EPA, Class-B municipal waste is safe for fertilizing crops and revegetating surface mines. But, says CDC senior industrial hygienist JOSEPH COCALIS, who talked to TIME not as a CDC spokesman but as a private citizen, "I personally would not want to eat food grown with human waste." The problem, Cocalis says, is that Class-B sludge is "biologically active" when dumped. The EPA places a 30-day restriction on public access, but pathogens can survive much longer. And surrounding dumps with earth mounds won't keep out trespassers like Tony Behun, 11, who died after riding...
...Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste- treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David Lewis? The agency has come under fire for harassing its scientists who question regulations. Now the intimidation may have spread. "I must be on to something, or he wouldn't be coming at me like this," says California dairy farmer and anti-sludger Beswick, who got eight letters...
Rubin, contacted by TIME, denied all charges. He says he regularly sends communications to those who oppose EPA policy, not to harass or threaten but to inform...