
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 25, 1993                   TAG: 9305250080
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

EPA SETS $11 MILLION FINE

EPA head Carol Browner and Attorney General Janet Reno announced on Monday the largest fine ever imposed under the Clean Air Act - $11 million.

Browner, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Reno used the occasion to promise tough enforcement against polluters nationwide.

They announced that a wood-panel maker, Louisiana-Pacific Corp. of Oregon, had agreed to pay $11 million in fines and spend another $70 million to develop pollution-control technology for use at plants across the nation.

"That means cleaner air all over our nation, Maine, Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and several other states," Browner said. "We will use the full range of our enforcement powers to make polluters pay for the true costs of pollution.

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