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...against Big Oil. Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping new anti-pollution measures that would drastically reduce emissions from trucks and buses and eliminate a significant percentage of the carcinogens and asthma-inducing inhalants currently poisoning the national atmosphere. This is a big step for the once-timid EPA; Wednesday's declaration is an uncharacteristically forceful move, setting the agency on a collision course with the powerful (and increasingly irritable) oil industry. While regulators would continue to grant smaller refiners a now-entrenched degree of latitude in meeting the new standards, larger producers would be subject to fines...
...speech delivered at the Kennedy School Forum on Monday, April 17, the longest-serving administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Carol Browner described the convoluted history of federal responsibility for protecting public health through the assurance of a safe physical environment. So far, the success story has been defined by the national mediation of parochial arguments between the industrial sector and determined environmental activists, with occasional but costly lawsuits filed against the EPA by both sides. This trend will likely continue far into the term of the next EPA administrator whose style and mandate will be determined...
...employers will probably fight against it. But the vision of differential vulnerability and unequal susceptibility can be erased no sooner than the unanimously accepted vision of environmental protection as a justified right of free citizens. These national issues of environmental justice and equity are sufficient to keep an EPA administrator and the President busy for two terms of office, but the increasing globalization of environmental quality and health adds an even more challenging dimension to the responsibilities of the next U.S. President...
...vulnerability and susceptibility that have now been projected into the global theater. Only here, the opposing concerns are the abortion of national economies and the likely demise of millions of poor people crammed into overpopulated coastal cities. So, it is among the vulnerable and the susceptible that the next EPA administrator must make a mark on national environmental conscientiousness and global environmental conscience. The two presidential candidates will do well now to consider carefully the credentials of their choice for the successor to Browner...
...BOTTLED Many parents assume that drinking bottled water is healthier for their families, but recent research shows that may not be true. Tap water is actually more closely monitored by the EPA for bacteria and pollutants. About 20% of bottled water contains higher levels of bacteria than does the tap water in most cities. Another concern is fluoridation: only 5% of bottled water contains recommended levels of fluoride. If your children are drinking primarily bottled water, check with your dentist to see if fluoride supplements are needed...