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Ruckelshaus wades into EPA...
That may require the fullest exercise of his considerable political and personal skills. Only hours before the President hailed "a new beginning" for the agency, the House of Representatives voted, 413 to 0, to hold former EPA Official Rita Lavelle (head of the hazardous-waste program until she was fired in February) in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena to testify before a House subcommittee. Meanwhile, the Justice Department was reported to be considering a grand jury investigation into allegations that Lavelle and former EPA General Counsel Robert Perry committed perjury in their testimony before Congress...
Protect and Serve Troubles at the Environmental Protection Agency seem only to compound. Two internal reports came to light last week that are not likely to assuage public worries about how well the EPA is protecting the environment. One, commissioned two months ago, is an in-house EPA review of the $1.6 billion hazardous-waste cleanup program known as Superfund. Its conclusion: philosophical conflicts about bureaucratic strategies and efficiencies led to major problems. Infighting between headquarters and regional offices, said the report, effectively stopped the program from going forward. It cast official bickering over procedures and a preoccupation in Washington...
...second EPA report summarized a probe of the work of a private testing firm responsible for evaluating the health and safety hazards of some 212 chemicals, primarily pesticides and herbicides, during the '70s. The study concluded that there had been a pattern of sloppy and fraudulent testing procedures by the firm, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, of Northbrook...
...agency subsequently ordered a review of all chemicals tested after EPA investigators in 1976 first discovered problems with the firm's work. The Justice Department was then asked to investigate. Four former employees of Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories are currently on trial in Chicago's federal district court on charges of submitting false study reports to the Government on four chemicals. Said an EPA spokesman in Washington: "We don't want to frighten anybody. Many of these chemicals are supported by other tests. We're trying to find out just which ones they...