New EPA FY06 Research Program To Develop Terror Detection Methods

EPA's fiscal year 2006 budget includes funds for establishing a new emergency response research program to develop new detection methods for a host of contaminants that could be used in terrorist attacks. A former agency official says the need for new detection methods became apparent after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks on postal and Senate office buildings. Although there were proven detection methods for anthrax, the incidents drew attention to the lack of technologies for...