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...late 1980s, though, the EPA banned the so-called organochlorine pesticides as being too toxic. That left termite fighters with a badly weakened arsenal. Even then, Formosan termites might have been controlled with an all-out effort, but few experts understood how grave the problem really was. (One exception, according to a multipart series on the termite threat that appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune last week, was Louisiana State University entomologist Jeffery LaFage; tragically, he was killed in a robbery just as he was rallying support for a termite-treatment program in the French Quarter a decade...
...years, the Department of Energy's half-mile-deep subterranean nuclear-waste repository in New Mexico has been ready for business, but legal challenges and bureaucratic rigmarole have prevented the WIPP site (for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) from opening. Now, with the EPA about to bestow its blessing, the DOE is gearing up to begin receiving plutonium refuse from the nation's mothballed bomb factories. With activists vowing legal action, that's no sure thing. Though officials insist that concerns about everything from fractures to flooding have been addressed, opponents still question the safety of shipping millions of pounds...
...last minute because she was not yet a citizen. Since her parents were not themselves U.S. citizens, Grossman had to wait until she was 18 to begin the citizenship process. "If [the application process] had gone according to schedule, I would have been able to work at the EPA," she says...
...grapes. Table grapes use such cosmetic pesticides such as Captan, Methyl Bromide, and Parathion because of the grapes thin and fragile skin. According to a report by the U.S. General Accounting office, many of these pesticides cannot be washed off and one-third of them are considered carcinogenic. The EPA reports that 300,000 farmworkers every year receive pesticide poisoning...
...leave from the firm to manage the vice- presidential campaign for Gore. After the election, he became deputy director of personnel for the transition, helping salt Gore loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy and playing a role in the appointments of top officials like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, EPA Administrator Carol Browner and Assistant Energy Secretary Tom Grumbly...