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...gets the impression from your article that virtually nothing has been done under the Superfund to clean up hazardous-waste sites. Nothing is further from the truth. Since early 1983, EPA has pursued an aggressive cleanup program. Long-term cleanup is under way at more than 400 national sites. At 300 other locations, immediate threats to human health and the environment have been eliminated and cleanup has been completed...
...OLIVIER HOSLET / EPA Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger uses incense to bless the Pope's coffin...
...radon threat has been intensified over the past ten years by the efforts of many homeowners to save energy. Tight insulation of buildings reduces air circulation and results in the buildup of indoor pollution. Says Richard Guimond, of the EPA: "The more you try to button up a house, the higher the pollutant levels become...
Radon is not the only indoor public-health hazard that has increased because of the pursuit of energy efficiency. The EPA reported in June that eleven toxic air pollutants may pose a threat in the average home, where they are believed to be generated by common household products and building materials. Prior to the report, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and George Mitchell of Maine and Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont introduced the Indoor Air Quality Research Act, which calls for further examination of the hazards of radon and other indoor air pollutants...
Nine states filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) two weeks ago, charging that its reduction requirements for mercury are grossly inadequate and will allow some of the most egregious polluters (typically older, coal-fired power plants) to avoid installing mercury controls indefinitely. I might be inclined to cut the EPA some slack if the rule-writing process didn't smell so, well, fishy. But the Government Accountability Office and the EPA inspector general have criticized the agency for ignoring scientific evidence and allowing industry lobbyists too much input...