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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency charged with overseeing how industries and researchers dispose of dangerous chemicals, slapped the university with the fines last April...
...EPA in recent years has cracked down on hazardous waste infractions at academic institutions, officials at universities have begun to question whether the rules are justified. At a recent meeting convened by the National Institutes of Health, environmental safety officials began to rethink the kinds of rules that cost MIT half a million dollars...
Over the last six years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managed to keep the fund afloat with a combination of previously-collected industry taxes and congressional funding. But the amount of money coming from Congress, and thus the taxpayers, has been steadily increasing, from 21 percent in 1994 to 50 percent in 1999. By 2004, all of the funding will come out of ordinary taxpayers’ pockets. It is painfully ironic that a program set up to hit polluters where it hurts them most—in the pocketbook—will soon do the same to those...
...bite. "His claim is ludicrous," says Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. "What he's really proposing is a massive relaxation of the Clean Air Act." Sources tell TIME that Christie Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, fought for tougher restrictions but was rebuffed. The EPA's own numbers say the Clean Air Act left alone will reduce power-plant emissions nearly twice as fast as Bush's new proposals...
...Speaking of which, EPA chief Christine Whitman resolves to start an environmental revolution by phasing in a new, gloriously Republican method of environmental regulation: Charging companies for the pollutants they emit. Cost-benefit-obsessed Bush regulatory chief John D. Graham can take care of the calculations, and together they push the dirtiest industries to clean up out of self-interest and put market forces to work for cleaner technologies. Not to mention bring the EPA - and the government - a whole new revenue stream...