Word: burford
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...Green movement, critics have argued that environmentalists exaggerate the dangers that humans pose to planet earth and understate the resilience of nature. Historically, the naysayers have had a key influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials James Watt and Anne Burford nearly destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency. But a worsening environment has put the naysayers on the defensive as they struggle to explain ever dirtier air, moribund forests and lakes, oil spills, desertification and the ozone holes over the poles...
...Reagan heads West, to retirement in California, he will leave in his wake a trail of names, men and women who have graced the United States government with gracelessness. James Watt. Anne Burford. Ed Meese. Oliver North. Reagan's Hall of Shame is fuller than any president...
...hand. Students analyze actions by federal and state bureaucracies who routinely play out roles in public drama, ignoring any number of weighty female public figures. Carla Hills, Juanita Krepps, Anne Armstrong, Nancy Kassebaum and even Massachusetts' own Margaret Heckler have escaped Harvard's notice. One exception is Anne Gorsuch-Burford. But never mind, hers is just a sideshow in the public drama starring William Ruckleshaus...
When Reagan appointees took control of various agencies, they sometimes sabotaged the institutions -- from the top. At the Environmental Protection Agency, Anne Burford and more than a dozen of her senior aides resigned in the face of a variety of charges, including one that they had deliberately ignored environmental violations by chemical companies whose officials they were chummy with. For them the agency was the problem, not the solution; their remedy was to create the kind of chemistry that would neutralize...
...Friday--As of yet, no Commencement speaker has been selected. Finalists are rumored to be: newly appointed Ambassador to Ireland Margaret M. Heckler, former EPA administrator Anne G. Burford, and the Walker family...