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Filling the Deregulatory Vacuum
Green, Mark | October 23, 1989 issue

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State attorneys general are more likely than not to be working with consumer and environmental activists against corporate polluters, white-collar criminals and lax Federal agencies. Once the laws were in place, ambitious attorneys general began to use their considerable prosecutorial power for the public good. State attorneys general have also taken the lead in the well-known case of Alar, a ripener used on apples that is carcinogenic. Despite its own studies showing that a break-down product of Alar can cause cancer, the Environmental Protection Agency not only wouldn't ban this hazardous substance but also spent years opposing a lawsuit.

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ATTORNEYS general; LAWYERS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; ADMINISTRATIVE agencies; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; HAZARDOUS substances
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