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...cites "industry and EPA" studies, but the EPA itself says the ad is misleading and has requested opponents to remove the EPA's name from their advertising. A study by the respected Federal Reserve Bank of Boston indicates that beverage prices will be lower if Question 6 passes...
...Since it was created in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been busily trying to protect everyone's health-except, apparently, that of its own employees. The oversight is documented in a draft report prepared by another federal watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, after visits by inspectors to eleven of EPA's 60 laboratories. The report says that more than half the 1,329 scientists, technicians and other employees in these labs had been exposed to toxic and other hazardous substances without the safeguard of satisfactory health-monitoring services, which are required by law. One example...
...EPA report, released last week by the agency's New England regional office, indicates that none of the surveyed 81 miles of the Charles River meet EPA's class B standards of suitability for fishing or swimming...
Only 357 out of the surveyed 1399 miles of river in the state--26 per cent--meet class B standards, according to the annual study, which EPA began last year...
However, the EPA predicted that by 1983, 25 of the assessed 81 miles of the Charles--31 per cent--will meet the fishable and swimmable standards, while the state waters complying will almost triple in seven years from 26 per cent to 69 per cent...