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...Friday--As of yet, no Commencement speaker has been selected. Finalists are rumored to be: newly appointed Ambassador to Ireland Margaret M. Heckler, former EPA administrator Anne G. Burford, and the Walker family...
That may soon change. This month the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to approve a limited experiment, to be conducted by California-based Advanced Genetic Sciences, in which genetically altered organisms will be allowed to enter the environment. The EPA believes that the fears about ecological damage are unfounded...
Among other things, townspeople wanted a barrier around the site. In August the EPA finished a new chain link fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire and hung with warning signs. (Some days, however, its gate has stood wide open.) The source of all the trouble is a ratty compound of cinder blocks and sheet metal, pink clapboard and silver tanks. One large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits...
...town well, and concentrations of arsenic and lead were detected in a sample of private well water taken in town last spring. Traces of benzene, 1,4-dioxane and other chemicals were found in air samples taken around Casmalia last December, but all were at levels below those the EPA considers dangerous...
...Times Beach, Mo., J.M. Huber Corp. has used a mobile electric reactor that heats up to 4,000 degrees F to destroy the dioxin in several hundred pounds of soil. Also tested at Times Beach is the EPA's mobile incinerator. It got rid of 99.9% of the dioxin in 1,750 gal. of liquid waste and 40 tons of soil in six weeks. Another movable unit is Westinghouse Electric's plasma arc furnace, which is housed in a 46-ft. trailer. The furnace reaches temperatures of 20,000 degrees...