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Ilene Hollin


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State pollution laws allow for infrequent checks

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently launched the Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) website (www.epa.gov/echo/), making available a complete compliance history of major facilities (locations such as power plants where pollution can occur).The website reported only 27 percent of the major facilities in the State and 15 percent of those in minority neighborhoods (defined as having at least a 50 percent minority population) have been inspected in the past two years.


Travel to Israel steady, despite violence

Although Israelis are currently at war with the Palestinians and although the United States government has administered an advisory warning against its citizens traveling to Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, many members of the Brandeis community are still traveling there.The Director of Student Activities for Brandeis Hillel,Cindy Spungin, said many students travel to Israel this summer.


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