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...across-the-board failure of Superfund to achieve its charter is now the responsibility of Carol Browner, President Clinton's new EPA administrator. With 22% of the EPA budget, Superfund is her biggest single program, and 1 in 4 Americans now lives within four miles of a Superfund site. Browner says her agency's Superfund specialists are working around the clock to prepare a "reauthorization proposal" for Congress in November that will suggest ways to make the system work. She says one of her first priorities is to reduce the percentage of the monies flowing into lawyers' pockets in litigation...
...restoration project being debated this week is nearly as ambitious as the plumbing it is trying to fix. The driving forces behind it included former acting U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen, who filed the first lawsuit, and Carol Browner, who headed Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation from 1991 through '92 and is now chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To purify the runoff and restore some of the sheetlike flow of the original ecosystem, the state of Florida proposed setting aside around 35,000 acres of cropland to act as "filtering marshes." Irrigation water drained from the fields would...
...past five years, the big sugar companies and vegetable growers of central Florida have fought the cleanup plan at every turn, filing about three dozen suits, appeals and challenges. (Browner used to refer to these actions ; as the "suit du jour.") The sugar growers complained that they had been turned into scapegoats and that the water-purity standards were unrealistically strict. A series of advertisements sponsored by U.S. Sugar argued that the restoration plan would spend half a billion dollars making swamp water cleaner than Evian bottled water...
...confrontation eased dramatically in May, when the sugar farmers, as part of an "environmental peace proposal," put their lawsuits on hold and agreed to pay for some of the cleanup costs. Perhaps it was the election of Clinton and Gore -- and the elevation of Browner to the EPA -- that changed their mind. Maybe they feared that they were losing the public relations battle and that their federal agricultural subsidies might be at risk. Or maybe they sincerely saw the need for compromise. Says Robert Buker Jr., a senior vice president at U.S. Sugar: "You can't shut down farming...
...reflect this bias, at least where women are concerned. Of Clinton's top female appointees, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and now Reno are unmarried and have no children; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and U.N. Representative Madeleine Albright have grown kids; only EPA chief Carol Browner has to worry about child care. So much for the President's vaunted vow to create a government "that looks like America...