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...suspended its permit to field test a preparation called Frostban, which contains re-engineered bacteria designed to retard the formation of frost on plants. The agency charged that the Oakland firm misrepresented data and violated the national pesticide-control law by conducting outdoor tests without a permit. (EPA officials had been alerted by newspaper stories initiated by the indefatigable Rifkin...
While that ruling was being appealed, A.G.S. was proceeding on its own. Late in 1984 it applied to the EPA for a permit to test Frostban on a strawberry patch in Monterey County, Calif.; last November the agency granted A.G.S. permission to spray some 8 trillion altered bacteria onto the field. But unknown to the EPA, the financially struggling company had already conducted outdoor tests of Frostban...
...concentration was five times the safety level recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ground-water studies conducted by the EPA in 1982 traced the TCE to dumping at the Cryovac plant, which is owned by the W. R. Grace & Co. industrial conglomerate...
...Protection Agency finally proposed a program to phase out all use of the carcinogenic mineral within ten years. Agency experts calculate that the ban would save some 1,900 lives during the next 15 years. "I believe there can be no debate about the health risks of asbestos," said EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas...
Stymied for more than six years because of objections from the Office of Management and Budget (which monitors agency regulations), the EPA's complicated phaseout will be analysed for a year before taking effect. Even then, it would not apply to any asbestos products already in place but would ban future sales of the material in roofing and flooring, tiles, cement and clothing. Other asbestos-related products would be labeled as such. Replacing asbestos with more expensive substitutes should cost consumers about $1.8 billion through the end of the century...