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After 17 months of weighing the evidence pro and con, Environmental Protection Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced his verdict last week: "DDT is an uncontrollable, durable chemical that persists in the aquatic and terrestrial environments." Because it lasts so long, it can build up in fish and animals until it "may have a serious effect" on human beings...
...automakers therefore requested a one-year extension of the deadline, but EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus last week turned them down. After considerable study, he said, he had concluded that the technology for cutting pollution was "probably adequate," and that the automakers "have adequate lead time to apply this technology." If automakers cannot meet the deadline after efforts pursued in "good faith," Ruckelshaus said, then they may ask again for an extension...
Practical men like Dingell feel that some minor surgery on the law may be necessary now to avoid wholesale butchery later on. The major conservation groups disagree, warning that such expedient changes would set a dangerous precedent. Urging moderation, William D. Ruckelshaus, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, argues that "the impact statement is a powerful but costly instrument in the fight against pollution. We must not, by [its] indiscriminate application, generate cost and delays leading to a public counterreaction...
...federal agents have used more and more poisons to kill predators. In some areas, foxes, weasels, eagles and a number of other species have virtually disappeared. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned 19 products containing cyanide, thallium sulfate, strychnine and sodium monofluoracetate. These poisons, said Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus, "represent a hazard to the public welfare through the indiscriminate destruction of our valuable wildlife resources...
...polluting the lake. (That ruling is still being appealed.) A series of conferences among federal and state water-quality agencies finally concluded in 1970 that the taconite tailings were killing the organisms on which the lake's fish feed. But it was not until last year that Ruckelshaus formally demanded that Reserve present a plan to stop polluting the lake within six months. According to an EPA-sponsored study, one solution would be to dump the taconite inland, but Reserve said no. The mining company offered instead to pipe the taconite directly to the lake bottom, where it would...