Word: epa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...samples taken in the outlying boroughs. While it is uncertain whether asbestos was used in the towers, which were completed in 1973, it may have been used elsewhere in the area. "We have not seen anything that would lead to long-term environmental or health problems," says EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who toured the site Thursday. The bodies trapped in the twisted-steel mausoleum also pose no major health threat; undiseased bodies do not spread disease when they decompose...
Still, even the EPA lauds Kennecott's stewardship in the valley. "That particular mine is at the forefront of the industry. Having a booming metropolis has forced Kennecott to deal appropriately at that site," says Dan Randolph, the EPA's Southwest-circuit rider...
...bring goo things to life! Loses war with EPA; must clean up Hudson River sludge
...tough enough these days, as any American builder can attest, to comply with regulations of the EPA, EEOC, OSHA and a Scrabble board of other U.S. agencies. But when Marasco proposed his International Gateway of the Americas--$225 million worth of shops, restaurants, offices and hotel rooms spread over 67 acres--he also had to deal with U.S. Customs, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the federal, state and city governments on the Mexican side. Marasco observes that "it requires a great deal of, um, flexibility...
...EPA has ordered that the Hudson River be dredged...