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Perhaps this was shown most clearly by Bush's performance at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development last June. As Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator William K. Reilly sought to formulate a version of the international treaty to curb carbon dioxide emissions that would be agreeable to Bush, the president criticized Reilly for suggesting support for binding limits...
...Kevin Reilly, an Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) drinking water expert, agreed thatCambridge water is safe to use. But he saw twopotential problems with the city's practice ofdumping sludge back into the water supply...
...from tobacco-related jobs -- almost double the 435,000 that the Surgeon General estimates die each year from tobacco-caused disease. A ban on promotion would cost some of those jobs. Still, it's ironic that, as a society, we spend billions to keep people from breathing asbestos -- the EPA estimates 17 non-occupational asbestos- related deaths a year -- but billions more to promote smoking...
...attempt to address these problems, Demydenko is working to convert the Kiev Mohyla Academy, founded in 1615, from a naval academy to a private university focusing on environmental issues. This project was made possible by an agreement signed last February between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Environmental Protection...
...cooperative agreement between the EPA and the North American Association for Environmental Education completed this August, the EPA agreed to provide $100,000, as well as technology and equipment to assist the Ukrainian environmental research center. The Ministry of Environmental Protection will also contribute about $57,000 to help start up the private university. Construction is expected to begin in September...