Terror Guide Departs From Past Anthrax, Superfund Policies, Activists Say

Activists are urging "major revisions" to a draft guide EPA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have developed for responding to bio-terrorism attacks and accidents at biological laboratories, arguing that the document misinterprets existing EPA Superfund guidelines and suggests vague cleanup standards that may not be health protective. Rather than use the draft guide's vague methods for cleaning up after a potentially harmful biological release, the government should instead adopt the decontamination standard the government used in response to...