Word: epa
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...Charles River has been awarded a `B-' grade for water quality this year, up from a `D' in 1996 and a `C' just last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday...
Harvard, MIT and 10 other waterfront institutions have formed a partnership to help the EPA clean up the river, the institutions announced yesterday...
...Environmental Evaluation Group, a watchdog organization. The debris, mostly plutonium-tainted clothing, tools and sludge, will be lowered a distance equal to the height of two World Trade Centers into a rock tomb hollowed from a salt formation. Gradually the walls will collapse, burying the refuse snugly, the EPA hopes, for 10,000 years. That's less than the radioactive half-life of plutonium, so elaborate barriers with Stonehenge-like giant granite monuments are planned...
Frank Labato, director of the department of Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Connecticut and a speaker at one afternoon panel, said the EPA responded to a "turf issue" rather than a serious offense. However, he said, it showed that the EPA was serious about pursuing action against violators...
Harvard's Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental Services Tom E. Vautin, who did not attend the conference, said yesterday that Harvard has been working toward these goals for several years and that no specific actions have been taken as a result of EPA's recent action...