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Pearl Harbor made history as the target of the 1941 Japanese air attack. But the 91-year-old naval base earned a more dubious distinction last month when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the site to its list of the nation's most dangerously polluted places. Among the hazards scattered across 12,264 acres: unlined landfills, pesticide-disposal pits, chromic acid- disposal areas, heavy-metal contamination and waste-oil leakage...
...other fenced-in, treeless site on this picturesque peninsula that juts into Chesapeake Bay. Yet for decades, O Field served as a dumping ground for vast amounts of toxic chemicals. Soil tests show concentrations of benzene and trichloroethylene (TCE) that are hundreds of times higher than the acceptable EPA limits; the vinyl chloride level is 1,500 times greater than allowed...
...governor, Clinton frequently ignored calls by environmentalists to challenge EPA decisions in cases of toxic-waste management, water quality and wilderness protection. Jacksonville, located 12 miles north of Little Rock, is home to three Superfund sites that contain high levels of dioxin and other toxic industrial chemicals that have been seeping into groundwater and soil and environmental groups challenge Clinton's conclusions that these sites do not pose a significant health problem...
...example, Quayle and the council overruled the EPA when it rejected a proposal that would have required municipal waste incinerators to recycle 25 percent of their garbage. EPA studies showed that the requirement would have saved money and energy as well as cut toxic pollution, but the council rejected the measure, claiming that mandated recycling created too much federal regulation...
...addition, the council discarded a proposed EPA ban on lead-acid automobile battery incineration, even though Health and Human Services Secretary Louis H. Sullivan said that lead is "the number one environmental threat to the health of children in the United States...