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Real Bad Estate
Bush Administration Lifts Ban on Selling PCB-Tainted Land |
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02 Sep 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Real Bad Estate Bush Administration Lifts Ban on Selling PCB-Tainted Land In yet another behind-the-scenes weakening of environmental rules, the Bush administration last month quietly ended a ban on the sale of land contaminated with PCBs. The 25-year-old ban was designed to prevent polluted sites from being redeveloped in ways that might expose the public to PCBs, which are believed to be carcinogens. The U.S. ... |
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| Topics: land degradation, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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