Word: burford
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...budget. In a speech before some 20,000 members of the National Campers and Hikers Association, Reagan pledged to "take all necessary steps to protect the American people against the menace of hazardous wastes." All the while, he was dogged by questions about his recent appointment of Anne Burford to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere; Burford was forced to resign as head of the Environmental Protection Agency last year amid allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement of its toxic-waste fund. The EPA payroll had been reduced by 4,300 employees because of Reagan...
...planned to have a peaceable luncheon last week with leaders of five of the nation's major conservation groups. But instead of a fence-mending meeting, the President got a showering of Third of July fireworks. The cause: his announcement the previous day that he was appointing Anne Burford, who was forced to resign last year as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, as chairwoman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Emerging from the stormy 90-minute session, Jay Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, blasted the President for having made the Burford...
...fact, the three-year appointment to the unsalaried 18-member advisory panel, which advises Congress and the Ad ministration, was made quite deliberately. When Burford left EPA in March 1983 amid charges of mismanagement of the agency's toxic-waste-cleanup fund, Reagan told her he would eventually want her back. But the decision to make the controversial move the day before the luncheon was unplanned. Said White House Chief of Staff James Baker: "We all approved the appointment, but none of us approved the timing...
...February 8 editorial, "Bring on the Veto," The Crimson called for the Senate to reject Meese's nomination, but noted, "to his credit, Ed Meese's name has not been linked to the sort of sordid activity associated with colleagues like Ann Burford, James Watt, Paul Thayer, Rita Lavelle, Charles Wick or Ray Donovan." But the charges brought against Meese during the recent hearigs clearly qualify him for a choice spot on that list, representing the standard bearers of what former Vice President Walter F. Mondale has aptly termed Reagan's "sleaze factor...
...Anne Burford, the former Environmental Protection Agency chief, was investigated for her preferential treatment of certain toxic waste producers...