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unusual facts about U.S. Environmental Protection Agency



BoRit Asbestos

The BoRit Asbestos Area Community Advisory Group (CAG) was established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and community members to represent the interests of the communities surrounding the 32 acre BoRit Asbestos Area near the intersection of Whitpain Township, Upper Dublin Township, and Ambler Borough, Pennsylvania, in providing advice and input regarding the BoRit Asbestos Area.

Fountain Place

Fountain Place is the headquarters of Tenet Healthcare and contains many financial institutions and offices that serve as Region 6 headquarters for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

McGill EMF Conference

They knew that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was threatening to regulate workplace smoking as a carcinogenic pollutant in the ambient air—and therefore that their old standby claims that the 'smoker made the choice to smoke or not'... that smoking was a personal choice... would no longer excuse the damage to health.

New Idria, California

In 2011, New Idria was re-listed as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site, owing to unchecked mercury run-off and contamination.

New York City Law Department

Among the better-known cases that the Department has litigated before the U.S. Supreme Court are Goldberg v. Kelly, Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, Ward v. Rock Against Racism, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, and Permanent Mission of India v. City of New York.

Presidio Graduate School

Employers include: Accenture, ClimateCHECK, the cities of Berkeley and Mountain View, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Goodwill Industries, Mattel, NBC, PETA, Sundance Channel, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and Wake Forest University.

Teck Resources

The company's Red Dog mine operation in north-western Alaska has been ranked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as one of the most polluting facilities in the United States based on output tonnage of toxic waste, largely (over 99%)in the form of blasted and moved, but otherwise unprocessed, waste rock from mining operations.

Westcott Reservoir

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant in 2005 was to replace the deteriorated Hypalon lining; as of October 2005 the reservoir stood empty.

William J. Mitsch

Mitsch has served on committees of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2001–2011) and on several United States National Research Council (NRC) committees of the National Academy of Sciences (1991–2004).


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Bradley M. Campbell

Campbell was nominated by President Clinton on December 15, 1999, to serve as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Middle Atlantic Region succeeding W. Michael McCabe, who had been named the EPA's Deputy Administrator.

Cigarette filter

Using standard tests adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Novotny and other researchers discovered that a cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water for four days will kill both the topsmelt and the freshwater fathead minnow fish species.

John Richard Sheaffer

In 1973, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chose Dr. Sheaffer’s plan for Muskegon, Michigan as its first-ever waste water project post-The Clean Water Act.