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A Fine Kettle of Fish
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06 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| A Fine Kettle of Fish The federal Clean Water Act might be a great thing in theory, but how's it doing in practice? Not so well, it turns out, due to the failure of the U.S. EPA to adequately enforce it. At any given moment, roughly 25 percent of all large industrial plants and water-treatment facilities are in violation of federal pollution standards -- but the EPA generally fails to ... |
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| Topics: health, marine life, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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