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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant awarded to an officer of the Undergraduate Council remains in the form of an uncashed check, as Council members allege that the officer apparently misled the EPA about the grant...
Randall A. Fine '96, secretary of the Undergraduate Council, was awarded the grant to develop a student program for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last summer...
Still other sites show why lawsuits proliferate so quickly around a toxic site. In Naugatuck, Connecticut, when the EPA targeted Uniroyal Chemical and 18 other companies for dumping waste, they turned around and sued 24 municipalities and more than 1,000 individuals and small-business owners...
Even when a company or individual has agreed to pay damages and follows all the EPA's rules, there is no guarantee that current cleanup procedures will ! work or that lawsuits will not continue to be filed against that company or individual indefinitely. That is because the EPA has never produced a legally acceptable definition of how much of any given contaminant is permissible in air, water and soil...
...across-the-board failure of Superfund to achieve its charter is now the responsibility of Carol Browner, President Clinton's new EPA administrator. With 22% of the EPA budget, Superfund is her biggest single program, and 1 in 4 Americans now lives within four miles of a Superfund site. Browner says her agency's Superfund specialists are working around the clock to prepare a "reauthorization proposal" for Congress in November that will suggest ways to make the system work. She says one of her first priorities is to reduce the percentage of the monies flowing into lawyers' pockets in litigation...