Health threat to infants ignored

ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) director Dr Pádraig Larkin’s insistence (Irish Examiner, May 6) that the agency is responsible for protecting human health from the effects of emissions from licensed facilities is somewhat confusing...

Health threat to infants ignored
Thu, 19 May, 2005 - 01:00

... given that the role of the EPA in this matter was never in question.

This responsibility is laid at the door of his organisation quite unambivalently in all the relevant domestic and EU legislation.

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