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President Carter this week nominated William Drayton, Jr. '65, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, to be assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for planning and management...
...negotiated truce with the EPA, the company also consented to pay $3.45 million in fines for violating federal and state water-and air-pollution standards...
...EPA Midwest Enforcement Director James McDonald calls the consent decree a "monumental first" that will help the agency in bargaining with other companies and communities (including the city of Detroit) that resist its decrees. Says McDonald: "We are going to be very ties." firm One and seek indication of the substantial penal agency's hard line: before the consent decree, it had begun proceedings to make...
...skepticism, in its present maturity, turns out to be essentially political in its aspirations. Its successes include the very existence of the Environmental Protection Agency and, as a particular example, the EPA'S recent action obliging the Ford Motor Co. to recall 54,000 cars to make sure that they meet emission standards. Skepticism can be credited with last year's California referendum on nuclear power; the fact that the voters did not veto nuclear expansion misses the point, which is that an arcane subject hitherto considered the sole province of the scientist and engineer was submitted...
...EPA Administrator Russell Train acknowledges that the report contains "some valid criticisms and very good suggestions" and insists that his agency will tighten up its reregistration procedures. The EPA is also planning to take a closer look at other pesticide products, and last week moved against a compound called EPN, which was developed in 1949 and is chemically similar to leptophos. Reason for the agency's unaccustomed haste: a study by an independent researcher indicating that EPN, which attacks the nervous system in much the same way as leptophos, is even more toxic than its close relative...