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...time runs out for his presidency, Clinton is desperate to leave an environmental legacy that will not be swept away like last year's leaves. Just last week he decreed the preservation of 84 million acres of coral reefs in Hawaii, his EPA ordered the long-delayed dredging of chemical waste from the Hudson River, and he started a new effort to salvage the Kyoto treaty to fight global warming after negotiations broke down in the Hague last month. With a flurry of pronouncements this year, he has locked away from loggers and developers more public land in the lower...
...second term, Clinton's EPA moved to tighten clean-air rules, putting particularly tough new restrictions on trucks and coal-burning power plants, but the proposals are still tied up in lawsuits. Clinton has also not achieved as much as he wanted in the fight against global warming. Though Gore led the U.S. delegation that helped forge the Kyoto climate-change treaty in 1997, it was immediately criticized by opponents in the U.S. Senate, where it still needs to be ratified. Perhaps the recent negotiations to fill in the details of the treaty will change the Senate's negative attitude...
...think it's terrific that the EPA has cracked down," senior Jeffrey A. Klein said. "By and large, people are saying that the fine is a shame, but that it's also a shame that hazardous wastes are being dumped...
...EPA has fined three other New England universities--University of New Hampshire, Yale University and Boston University--for violations of hazardous waste management laws and the Clean Water Act over the last five years...
Brown spokesperson Nickel said he hopes the EPA report will not mar Brown's longstanding reputation as an environmentally conscientious school...