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...increasingly shrill battle overGOP efforts to roll back environmental regulations, EPA head Carol Browner warned local officials late Wednesday that one in 10 Americans drinks from a water system that violates public health standards. "We cannot take the safety of our drinking water for granted," Browner told a group of local officials. "More remains to be done." GOP House members want to do less. Hours earlier, a subcommittee voted to gut the long-sacred Clean Water Act, which protects lakes, rivers and streams from pollution.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonnotes that Browner, whom Republicans are now attacking for running a "partisan...
Dockery said their findings may help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set new pollution standards...
...EPA has been aware of four studies for quite a long time," Dockery said. "As the EPA undergoes its next review and reevaluation, the recent findings on measurable health effects will be evidence suggesting the need for new standards...
...EPA warning: places featured in "Under the Cushions" are ecological sanctuaries. Although they might be news to us, they are a haven for some. Regulars at L&P's loft expressed their concern about damage to their environment due to exposure. So if you choose to go, conduct yourself accordingly. I suggest tweed for easy assimilation...
...EPA admits to being overzealous at times and points to corrective steps now in the works, such as changing the 11-day rule in the wetlands definition. But environmentalists contend that reform is not what's on Republicans' minds. Says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope: "The agenda they have set is not to fix these laws but to weaken them...