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...Dropping a regulation to require cities that incinerate their waste to recycle 25 percent of their garbage, a regulation that the EPA predicted "would pass any imaginable [cost/benefit] test...
...benefit/cost analysis of the recycling bill? Quayle owns $350,000 of stock in family controlled Central Newspapers, a conglomerate that owns seven newspapers, two paper mills and a plant devoted to producing virgin newsprint and that reportedly belongs to the same industry organizations that lobbied against the EPA proposal...
...many cases, the trade-offs make sense -- both financially and environmentally. But in others, long-term costs and dangers can outweigh the benefits. "Pollution problems go up, property values collapse and frequently no real jobs result," says EPA engineer Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist. In East Liverpool, Ohio, some local residents, aided by Greenpeace, launched a hunger strike to protest the start-up of a giant incinerator that promoters say could help uplift the devastated steel region by processing dangerous industrial wastes...
...West Texas the stench of the New York sludge is helping opponents mobilize against MERCO and build support for a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general to force the EPA to require an environmental-impa ct statement from MERCO. "We're trading a few short-term jobs for our way of life," argues antisludge organizer Linda Lynch. Supporters retort that the sludge will eventually revitalize depleted rangelands. Exxon station owner Andy Virdell, who has seen other ventures die in the hardscrabble desert, is ecstatic. "Sure, we'd rather have an electronics plant here," he says, "but in this economy...
Americans dispose of far and away more waste than anybody else on the planet. The EPA estimates the annual cost of this disposal at more than $30 billion, a figure rising 17% a year and predicted to reach $75 billion by the end of the century. On the other hand, despite the dire predictions of some environmentalists, disposal is less of a problem than in many other countries. There are still plenty of landfills available, and they will continue to play an important role. So will new incinerators, despite their many environmental shortcomings. For America to catch up in recycling...