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...DEQE was only one in a series of hurdles the project had to clear. MATEP’s planners insisted that the plant be exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pollution regulations because of Harvard’s non-profit status. In December 1980, Bok wrote to then-Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King seeking exemption from the act, which was granted on a probationary basis...
...This is the kind of job when you come home at the end of the day, you really like to have someone to sound off to, and the plants just weren't doing it for me." CHRISTIE WHITMAN, who resigned as head of the EPA, saying she wanted to spend more time with her husband in New Jersey...
Bush, by contrast, has learned to stand oblique to the current of public opinion on the environment, allowing criticism to slide off his back. His lieutenants in Interior, Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have quietly focused on the regulatory route, using administrative guidance and legal loopholes to achieve what Gingrich could not obtain in the full glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental...
...only would it be smart policy for the EPA to force companies to comply with modern pollution restrictions; it’s the EPA’s job. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must consider only requirements of public health and safety and may not engage in cost-benefit analysis when setting national air quality standards. The Bush administration’s new rule seems to skirt the court’s ruling, allowing polluters to pollute more in some parts of their plants as long as they reduce the pollution overall...
...EPA’s recent behavior directly benefits rich corporations—many of which contributed vast amounts to Republicans in the recent elections. It is very disappointing that the EPA, a well-conceived agency with a noble purpose, has been transformed into a tool for promoting the Republican agenda and for benefiting manufacturing interests...