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...regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants had to be modernized to meet federal standards. The seven companies under fire decided to dodge these guidelines by claiming multimillion-dollar upgrades were routine maintenance, according to EPA administrator Carol Browner. The government is demanding speedy upgrades in all the offending plants and is looking to levy millions of dollars in fines...
...companies are feigning surprise, but to many, the lawsuits were long overdue. "The EPA has been dealing with a long list of languished initiatives that were forgotten during the environmentally lax Republican administrations," says TIME environment editor Charles Alexander. The EPA came on very aggressively under Clinton, says Alexander, and Browner has been particularly effective. And it's not just these seven companies who are taking note of the change in the political weather. "Business is paying more attention to environmental laws these days," adds Alexander. "And these lawsuits will definitely bolster the Clinton administration's image as being tough...
...reach its goal--"to make the river fishable and swimmable by Earth Day 2005" --the EPA announced it will allocate $200,000 in additional projects...
...EPA deemed the River this year suitable for boating 91 percent of the time, up from 39 percent in 1995. Its improvement in "swimmability" is even greater--a jump from 19 to 75 percent...
Regatta participants and others in the community have long had concerns about pollutants in the river. On Earth Day last year, Harvard joined the EPA and other universities and firms in formally resolving to clean up the Charles...