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ACQUITTED. Rita M. Lavelle, 35, a former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; of contempt of Congress for failing to testify in March about her management of the EPA hazardous-waste-cleanup fund on the ground that she was "emotionally and physically unable to attend," after less than two hours of deliberation by a federal jury; in Washington. Dismissed by President Reagan in February, Lavelle still faces possible perjury charges for earlier congressional testimony...
...Meselson went to Vietnam in the midst of war to monitor the usage of Agent Orange. In recent years, he has been an advocate of greater government attention to Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliant. This spring, the biochemist's name appeared on an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hit list of some 90 scientists singled out for exclusion from EPA advisory boards because of their liberal political views...
...arsenic-emissions standard proposed by EPA and slated for public discussion primarily affects the Tacoma smelter, which is the only U.S. plant using arsenic-rich copper ore imported from the Philippines. The proposed standard requires the smelter to install the best available technology to lower its overall arsenic emissions to 189 tons per year from the 310 tons that annually belch from its 565-ft. smokestack and seep from other parts of the plant. Asarco is already spending $4.4 million to install hoods that should cut back emissions to precisely those levels. Despite these safeguards, Ernesta Barnes, EPA...
...action represents more open-mindedness on the part of the EPA, which in the past has generally invited public discussion only after policy decisions have been made. Nonetheless, some environmentalists viewed the new approach as the kind of morbid cost-benefit analysis they have long opposed. Western Washington University Professor Ruth Weiner said that asking the community to determine what is best is "economic blackmail. People will vote for jobs and cancer." Warned Richard Ayres, head of the National Clean Air Coalition: "You're balancing money and lives, and they just don't balance...
...that the briefing book imbroglio has been thrust into national consciousness, the Reagan Administration can regain its full credibility only by ensuring that investigations go forward. If there is housecleaning to be done, the President has already demonstrated-most recently in the EPA scandal-that he can do it, however reluctantly and unapologetically. He stands by his characterization of the ruckus as "much ado about nothing. " But Reagan has already said what Richard Nixon could never quite bring himself to say about Watergate. Promised Reagan: "If, when the investigation is over and the truth is known, it is necessary...