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Anxious to counter the rapidly spreading perception that safeguarding the environment has not exactly been one of its highest priorities, the Reagan Administration last week began a refurbishing of the Environmental Protection Agency. First, EPA Administrator Anne Burford showed up in Missouri with a dramatic offer to buy out the homes and property of residents of the dioxin-poisoned town of Times Beach. Then, after Burford left for speaking engagements in California and Arizona, the Administration put the broom to the EPA, sweeping out of office two top officials who were under investigation and appointing five top deputies. Democratic congressional...
Despite these moves, several congressional leaders clamored for the sacking of Anne McGill Burford, who was known as Anne Gorsuch until her marriage to Robert Burford, an aide to Interior Department Secretary James Watt, two days before her appearance in Times Beach. But there was no gratis honeymoon period for her on the Hill. Investigators for congressional subcommittees probed charges of political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement at the EPA. They began to focus on Burford's role in overseeing the Superfund, a $1.6 billion program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps. Some Administration...
Imaging, for example being forced to admit that you earn your keep at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and respectfully humble yourself before a boss who is none other than Anne Burford. Jokes from the in0laws could wear thin after a short time...
While he didn't jump. Edward A. Kurent, a senior enforcement lawyer at the EPA, did resign last wek, saying his office can no longer do its job properly. Kurent cited "the fatigue and low morale of the staff" and pointed the finger at Burford for undermining the agency's enforcement efforts. Similar frustration prompted civil rights attorneys at the Justice Department to sign petitions twice last your opposting administration policy in that area...
Whether intentionally or not, Burford is not doing her job, controlling and cleaning up pollution. If she will not follow the Congressional mandate which created the EPA she should resign, leaving her agency free to clean itself up and recommit itself to making America safe...