Word: epa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive that millions of cars now capable of passing inspection are likely to fail. And not just old smokies: the EPA estimates that as many as a third of recent-model cars will flunk, instead of the current...
...EPA had good reason to issue the new rules. More than 20 years after the government began requiring annual emissions tests for many cars, half of the smog and 90% of the carbon monoxide in the air still pours out of tail pipes; the rest comes mainly from the smokestacks of factories and oil refineries. The new regulations could reduce smog-producing emissions and carbon monoxide pollution from vehicles by 30% in many cities. But repairs to pass the test could cost drivers from $25 to $450, a stiff increase from the present average of $50 to $75. (Anyone whose...
...says any risk at all is unacceptable, and a San Francisco court ruled that the epa must ban the four; 31 others will probably be affected too, and 30 more could be. That adds up to 20% of all pesticides used on crops. The EPA is deciding whether to appeal -- and the pesticide industry is holding its breath...
...shots aimed at the epa chief are just a preview of what awaits George Bush when he joins more than 100 other world leaders this week for the culmination of the summit. The Brazilian press has already labeled the U.S. a "party pooper" and called Bush "Uncle Grubby." And many of the President's harshest critics in Rio will be fellow Americans. At the first day of the Open Speakers Forum, a meeting place for the 20,000 activists, scientists, spiritual leaders and other people on the periphery of the Earth Summit, environmentalist Sharon Rogers of Wright City, Mo., announced...
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