"We called in all the available resources, " said Dr. John Simkovich, director of public health for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).
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Two years later, they founded Yantai Jereh, which grew into a major supplier of oilfield equipment and services for oil and gas drilling, natural gas liquefaction and environmental control.
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In government, where its clients include the Environmental Protection Agency, Homeland Security, and Centers for Disease Control.
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Finally, the Ohio Department of Agriculture moved to revoke the company's operating permits--not for environmental violations but on the grounds that DeCoster controlled or had the right to control the new company, and should have, but didn't, disclose that fact.
"The evidence is stacking up that indicates it is not environmental, " said Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
The jury also convicted the plant's environmental control manager, Mark Kamholz, on 15 counts, most of them for violating clean air laws, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and believe they maintain such a policy for idealistic reasons, the fact is such a strict environmental policy is also a great cost-control strategy.
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Some parts of the new regulations simply reiterate rules that were already in place -- such as requirements for dust-control measures at construction sites -- but have been poorly implemented because the environmental authorities have lacked clout.
They point to the Sakhalin-2 project off Russia's Far East coast, where Gazprom gained majority control from Royal Dutch Shell last year, after Russian authorities refused to give Shell environmental clearance for the scheme.
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