Critics Attack EPA Reversal On Use Of Radioactive Byproduct For Roads

Environmentalists and radioactive-cleanup experts are criticizing EPA for reversing course on a decades-long policy that prohibits the use of a radioactive byproduct from fertilizer production as a component in federal road construction, with the critics saying the move is a “give away” to a powerful industry. They say the agency’s decision suggests officials have not shown the byproduct’s use is any less harmful than it previously was but rather have decided that that same level of risk is acceptable, and...