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...choice as the candidate who best understands the urgent need to safeguard the country's land, water and air. Under Reagan's stewardship-or rather, lack of stewardship-the environment has suffered a brutal attack from the forces of neglect unleashed by the lies of James Watt and Ann Burford...
Despite the politics-above-all mood, even many Republicans deserted the White House in its attempt to bring Anne Burford, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, back into Government as chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Forced to resign after charges of mismanagement and fostering a cozy relationship between her agency and polluters, she turned off many of her supporters by belittling her new job as a "nothing-burger." The Republican Senate joined the Democratic House in passing non-binding resolutions asking Reagan to withdraw the appointment, which did not require Senate confirmation. Last week Burford...
...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...
William Ruckelshaus, who replaced Burford at EPA, concedes it will be hard to defuse the issue. "Reagan's environmental image is hurt by the style and the approach of both my predecessor and [former Interior Secretary James] Watt," Ruckelshaus told TIME. "What happened here in the first couple of years of the Reagan Administration is not easy to defend...
...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...