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...from environmentalists was deafening. Companies that had already invested in alternative disposal methods also lodged protests. The abrupt change in standards, said Connecticut Congressman Toby Moffett, who chairs a House subcommittee on the environment, was "ill-conceived and a danger to public health." A congressional resolution to force the EPA to reconsider its decision quickly won support from both parties. Last week the agency reversed itself and reimposed the ban. "It was a mistake to suspend the rule," admitted Gary Dietrich, director of the agency's office of solid wastes. Added Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch: "I believe the EPA...
...contaminating thousands of disposal sites. Critics of the ban, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had claimed that sorting out liquid from solid toxic wastes and then getting rid of them was prohibitively expensive. Incineration, for example, costs more than $100 per bbl., vs. $25 simply to bury the stuff. EPA officials admitted last week that even before the ban went into effect, they had decided to scuttle it as "unworkable." Edgy environmentalists think that may still happen, despite last week's retreat by the agency. Reason: the EPA filed a separate proposal last month to replace the ban with...
Reagan's proposed budget would slash EPA funding in half, and in his testimony Duehay explained that state and local governments could not assume financial responsibility for the eliminated programs...
...argument is the Clean Air Act, one of the more successful and popular pieces of environmental legislation to emerge from Congress. Passed in 1970 at a time of heightened concern about pollution, the law empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a much needed atmospheric cleanup. It required the EPA to set strict limits on seven major pollutants, including toxic agents such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and lead. It mandated steady reductions in emissions from automotive tail pipes and factory smokestacks. It also gave the EPA power to force the states, some of whom showed little or no interest...
Despite protests and omissions, the Administration insists that the new bill will continue the cleanup of the nation's air, but at what EPA Chief Anne Gorsuch calls "a more reasoned pace." Some House Democrats from industrial states, notably Michigan's John Dingell, head of the Energy and Commerce Committee, have given it strong support. But, as in 1981, there is no shortage of opponents. In the Republican-controlled Senate, Vermont's Robert Stafford, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has pledged to keep the 1970 Clean Air Act as is, except for minor revisions...