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Trouble On Tap
Sierra Magazine reports on the state of the nation's tap water. Despite the number of illnesses and death due to contaminations in drinking water, EPA regulation and enforcement may be weakening. "Close to a sixth of the U.S. population drank water that was at times polluted and another third drank water of questionable quality," Sierra Magazine reported.
Tags: tap water; water safety; National Resources Defense Council; Environmental Protection Agency
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The Bethesda Gazette series examines the contoversy surrounding National Institutes of Health (NIH) incinerators. The series finds that the NIH does not test emmissions from their three medical waste incinerators. Citizen groups and activists band together to oppose the building of more incinerators until the public is given more information about what the incinerators burn. Follow-up articles show that NIH finally shut down the incinerators and agrred to test the soil around the incinerators. Oct. 1993 - June 1994.
Tags: MD Patner NIH Environment EPA Natural Resources Defense Council 65 pages