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Michael J. Nalipinski, the EPA official who is studying the report, is sharply critical...
...EPA has had a very difficult time coming up with the same conclusions that Grace has, based on the same information," he said...
...expect such protection for activities that are "visible to the naked eye" by police "traveling in the public airways." In the Dow case Burger went further, saying that a factory area was not comparable to a private yard, and that the $22,000 magnifying camera used by the EPA was not in the same league as high- tech snooping devices that might require a search warrant. The majority's course worried Lewis Powell, who spoke for the dissenters in both cases. The failure to protect privacy rights, he said in the Dow decision, "will permit their gradual decay as technology...
...currents could bring some radioactivity to North America, U.S. Government sources expressed little worry. "We don't expect any significant health effects in the United States," said Sheldon Meyers, acting director of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of radiation programs. Still, the U.S. is taking no chances. The EPA increased its measurement of airborne particulates from twice a week to daily in order to spot fallout quickly...
FOOTNOTE: *Under current, overlapping regulations, frost-inhibiting bacteria are considered microbial pesticides and must be approved by the EPA for field testing or use. Gene-spliced animal biologics and plants require USDA clearance; human and animal drugs need Food and Drug Administration approval...