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...drawbacks, including the damage it can do to artwork and furniture and the fact that it doesn't work as effectively if the temperature isn't maintained at 70[degrees]F and humidity at 50% to 70%. "Doing this on an enormous scale needed a second look," said EPA Administrator Christie Whitman...
...plan got that second look, and it was scrapped--or at least scaled back. Last week the EPA began spreading Sandia foam on a contaminated stairwell and freight elevator. Next, the ventilation system, Senator Tom Daschle's office and perhaps a neighboring office will be treated with chlorine dioxide. Only if tests show that parts of Hart are still contaminated will officials reconsider gassing the whole building...
...water quality for boating when it’s dry is fine,” said Bill Walsh-Rogalski, counsel for Special Projects for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “The water quality even meets swimming standards virtually all the time [when it is dry]. The real question is whether or not it is going to rain...
...goal of the EPA, however, is to make the Charles “swimmable by 2005,” and have stable, high water quality regardless of the weather. According to Walsh-Rogalski, that goal is still attainable and the CRWA’s statistics may be misleading...
Rogalski’s assertion is supported by the annual grading the EPA does of the river. In April, the Charles River earned a “B,” an acceptable quality for boating...