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...GOOD It took real smarts to become the first female Governor of New Jersey and the head of the EPA...
...EPA, investigating a potential link between lung cancer and the chemicals released in the air when making a bag of popcorn, will announce that it’s probably not such a good idea to eat the imitation butter flavoring either...
...Mass., sits the Atlas Tack Company. More than 7,000 people live within a mile of Atlas. More than 15,000 live within three miles. And for more than twenty years, Atlas released cyanide, arsenic and other toxic solvents into an adjacent marsh. Then in 1990, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials finally put the site on their National Priorities List for cleanup under the Superfund program—a landmark initiative from 1980 that used to force polluters to pay for the damage they...
...story of the Atlas site is not extraordinary. Indeed, there are over a thousand superfund sites languishing on EPA lists that continue to be a danger to communities across the country. And just this week, for the third year in a row, Bush added an unusually low number of new sites to the National Priorities List and encouraged Superfund budget cuts...
Many of the Harvard scientists took particular issue with the Bush administration’s treatment of global warming. The UCS statement accuses the White House of demanding “extensive changes” to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), leading the EPA to delete an entire section concerning the impact of human activity on climate change...