Politics
The chemical industry and major environmental groups have agreed on sweeping revisions in the federal law regulating pesticides, which would require new health data on scores of common farm chemicals and hasten the banning of dangerous ones, House experts said Monday.
Sept. 10, 1985
Greenspace
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Jan. 31, 2011
Money & Company
Nov. 16, 2010
California
For many people who know of the South Coast Air Quality Management District from its own press releases, the agency’s image as a hard-hitting, even Draconian, enforcer of anti-pollution laws is still in the air.
March 10, 1994
Business
The Environmental Protection Agency agreed Thursday to protect an industry-led group from up to $10 million a year in legal damages that could stem from the group’s voluntary efforts to clean up Superfund hazardous waste sites.
Feb. 8, 1985
World & Nation
The food world was rocked by a series of unprecedented news events in 1989.
Dec. 28, 1989
April 26, 2010
Books
The author of a controversial book about food and water contamination claims an industry-sponsored campaign used slanderous tactics to discredit his recent publication.
Nov. 29, 1990
Aug. 25, 2011
Galvanized by the death of more than 2,000 persons after a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, local and national officials in this country are moving to clamp costly new safety and pollution restrictions on U.S. chemical makers and others who use or transport hazardous substances.
Feb. 6, 1985