EPA LOOKS TO BROADEN DIOXIN STRATEGY FOR OCEAN DUMPING

EPA is considering broadening its guidance for determining thresholds for ocean-dumping of wastes containing dioxin, according to administration sources who say that the agency is now interested in expanding the effort to include other bioaccumulative contaminants. But agency staff warn that the management strategy has been slowed considerably and that no definitive decisions have been made on whether the scope of the dumping guidance should be expanded. Nonetheless, one environmentalist says any effort to get this document out in any...