In fact, the EPA has worked aggressively with industry in order to protect those large polluting corporations while those corporations keep spewing out dioxin in their manufacturing processes or products. The early cover-up was successful. As a result, the health consequences to this country are serious. Dioxin is everywhere. The EPA has been part of the problem, not part of the solution, because the EPA would not take action on this political chemical and still may not, even after the 1994 reassessment.
Actions are now political.
Both the federal government and industry have waged a successful war to obscure the known seriousness of dioxin as a contaminant in both Agent Orange and in the present careless manufacture of dioxin through industrial processes. After the Vietnam War the issue was product liability and veterans compensation. The issues now are pretty much the same thing. EPA's big goal has been to protect industry. Dr. Kligman even increased the dosage dramatically at one point, without Dow's knowledge.