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...former employ ees. The executives, all of whom could face prison terms, are charged with con spiring to conceal from the Environmental Protection Agency the results of tests that showed that two widely used pesticides may cause cancer in humans. The indictment is the first ever sought by the EPA against a company for covering up adverse information about a product...
...chlor and chlordane. Velsicol, a subsidiary of Northwest Industries Inc., sells them to other firms, which market them under myriad brand names. They have been widely used by both farmers and homeowners against termites, fire ants and the like. According to the indictment, Velsicol, at the behest of the EPA, began studies of both chemicals in 1971 to determine what, if any, dangers they posed...
...EPA on its own gathered information and in November 1974 the agency announced it was drastically restricting use of the chemicals. That decision led to three years of public hearings. The chemicals are still being used by professional exterminators and to control fire ants, mainly in the South. Finally, in 1975, the EPA turned the case over to the Justice Department...
...course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...
NONATTAINMENT. Because areas that do not meet the 1970 act's minimal clean-air requirements cannot legally attract more polluting industry, the EPA last fall announced a Solomonic compromise: it would permit new factories and power plants in a "nonattainment" area if their pollution was offset by curbs on existing emissions. It is under such an arrangement that Volkswagen is building its first U.S. assembly plant-in New Stanton, Pa. Yet the imaginative offset policy has touched off howls from industry, and the Carter Administration wants another year to study its effects. In a surprising reversal, the House voted...