Word: burford
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WHEN Labor Secretary Raymond Denovan, EPA Chief Anne Gersuch Burford, and Secretary James Watt each embarrassed the Reagan Administration with immoral acts and statements, the immediate impulse of the chief executive and his sides was to rush to the defense of the offender. Martin S. Feldstein '61, chairman of the council of economic advisors, has made no grating gaffes and has taken no illegal actions. But he has publicly disagreed with the incredible claims of his boss, and independent thought appears to be the one crime the Administration cannot stand...
...William Ruckelshaus. Highly respected as the EPA'S first head (1970-73), Ruckelshaus was recalled from private life in May to salvage what is now the Government's largest regulatory agency. He has replaced numerous political second-raters and former industry lobbyists hired by his predecessor, Anne Burford, with experienced Government operators. He has restored morale among EPA employees and pleased the White House by getting the agency off the nightly news. Says William Drayton, a top EPA official in the Carter Administration, who formed the Save EPA Working Group to counter the Reagan Administration's attacks...
...sharp contrast to the closed-door management style of his predecessor, Burford, Ruckelshaus announced that he would operate the EPA in a "fishbowl." He has done so, right down to making public his daily appointment book. Known for his integrity (he resigned as Nixon's Deputy Attorney General in 1973 rather than fire the Watergate special prosecutor), Ruckelshaus, 51, is a veteran of Government hotspots, including a stint as acting director of the FBI in 1973. Easygoing and open, he consults widely within the agency before making decisions, walking through the departments and sharing brown-bag lunches with lower...
...abandoned a Burford proposal to make it easier for states to raise allowable pollution levels in lakes and streams...
...Labor Department's asbestos action) the House passed on to the Senate a bill closing many of the remaining loopholes in existing toxic waste law. This is the first major antipollution move made by Congress since the Reagan Administration took office. In addition to the absence of Mrs. Burford, analysts believe that the departure of Secretary of Interior James Watt also aided proponents of the legislation to overcome conservative resistance...