Word: epa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...argues that it has done as much as any government to fight global warming. Speaking at the preparatory meeting this ^ month, William Reilly, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, cited the strengthening of the Clean Air Act, Bush's promise to plant 1 billion trees a year and the EPA's Green Lights program, which helps state governments and corporations install energy-efficient lighting. Moreover, the U.S. has pledged to contribute $75 million to international funds designed to aid developing countries in efforts to reduce production of greenhouse gases. Reilly is convinced that the U.S. will sign...
...complain bitterly about an array of regulations that require refineries to meet costly standards for reformulated gasoline and other clean- burning fuels. As a result, Shell, Amoco and Unocal are among big producers that plan to close or downsize facilities. Oilmen say domestic production is further threatened by proposed EPA regulations that would impose tight controls on drilling wastes and other by-products. Such rules, they warn, will force the closing of hundreds of small "stripper" wells that make up 75% of the nation's total...
According to the GAO, migrant workers' problems included wages below minimum wage, work in pesticide covered fields and a lack of adequate drinking water and toilets on the job. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that farm workers suffer nearly 300,000 "acute illnesses" per year due to these sub-standard working conditions...
Rehabilitating the region will not be easy, but the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and others have sued the EPA to force the state to protect fish like the delta smelt. Efforts are also under way to restore flow to the San Joaquin and Trinity rivers. Water consultant Mark Reisner and the Nature Conservancy have worked with rice growers, the most water-intensive farmers, to promote a plan to store water on paddies, creating wetlands and riverside habitat during the winter. Perhaps the most important aspect of Reisner's project is that it has got the warring water users...
...council has also opposed an EPA plan to require liners and leachate collection systems at all new solid-waste landfills. For nearly a year, the council argued that the plan was too costly, though other officials noted that in the past five years no city has permitted the construction of a new landfill without such equipment. The nation is short on landfills, and the rules for creating new sites are already three years behind schedule...