1.   As a result, she said, the EPA will propose no later than February strict air standards for reducing dioxin and other emissions from medical waste incinerators.

2.   In a news conference, the EPA said that in February it would propose rules for controlling dioxin and other air pollutants emitted by medical incinerators.

3.   It was the only medical waste incinerator in the city.

4.   Medical incinerators are already being replaced by autoclaves, devices used to sterilize equipment.

5.   Most often, community advocates fought to stop the construction of what they perceived were environmentally harmful projects, like the medical waste incinerator in nearby Hunts Point.

6.   The rest comes from local medical waste incinerators, whose regulations will be toughened this fall, and from coal- and oil-burning local power plants.

7.   They also cut out sections of mattresses and carpet for transportation to medical incinerators.