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...internal reports on the notorious Stringfellow toxic dump in California, admitted that it did have two EPA reports confirming that Burford prepared to announce a grant to clean up Stringfellow last year but changed her mind at the last minute. There have been charges that the Administration delayed the cleanup in an effort to hurt the Senate campaign of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown...
...delays have already cost more than $3 million. And the tab could climb still higher. At week's end technicians found that a lashing rainstorm had left deposits of fine grit, possibly beach sand or salt crystals, inside the payload bay. This could mean an expensive, time-consuming cleanup...
UNDER the mismanagement of Reagan-appointed administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has suffered its worst year ever. Charged by environmentalist critics with moving slowly in toxic-waste cleanup efforts, the Agency is currently under investigation by the Justice Department and a half-dozen congressional subcommittees seeking answers to allegations of mismanagement of the $1.6 billion Superfund and of the use of cleanup decisions for political leverage. Each day the list of charges grows longer, highlighting the agency's failure to meet its responsibilities, and raising serious questions about Burford's understanding of her job description...
...have been thwarted by Superfund administrator Rita Lavelle, whom Burford recently fired for her connections with chemical-industry polluters. But many insiders see Lavelle as Burford's scapegoat. Burford herself may have business or personal links amounting to a conflict of interest: the EPA recently awarded a $7.7 million cleanup contract to a company accused of being a polluter in its own right--a company represented by Denver attorney James Sanderson. Sanderson, who is currently being investigated by the FBI, recently finished a 15-month stint as a part-time consultant to Burford...
...some eight centuries, the site was overrun by tropical growth, shaken by quakes and lashed by monsoon rains. Still, when the British Lieutenant Governor of Java, Thomas Raffles, rediscovered the ruins in 1814, he was sufficiently impressed to order a cleanup of the stone pyramid. The Dutch, who regained Java from the British in 1816, continued the custodial work, which culminated in a major restoration after the turn of the century, but their well-meant efforts failed to stem continuing damage from tremors and poor drainage...