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...hard to cope with a mess he inherited. "I didn't pollute Boston harbor, but I'm the guy cleaning it up," he has said. Yet environmentalists charge that he resisted complying with the Clean Water Act for so long that costs skyrocketed and federal funds dried up. Mike Deland, the Environmental Protection Agency's tough administrator for New England, says that by stalling, Massachusetts has made "the most expensive public-policy mistake in the history of New England...
...Pesticide residues and other chemicals so taint New York marine waters that state officials have warned women of childbearing age and children under 15 against consuming more than half a pound of bluefish a week; they should never eat striped bass caught off Long Island. Says Mike Deland, New England regional administrator for the EPA: "Anyone who eats the liver from a lobster taken from an urban area is living dangerously...
Stiff fines and even prison sentences may get the attention of landbound polluters. Under Administrator Mike Deland, the EPA's New England office has acquired a reputation for tough pursuit of violators. In November 1986 the agency filed criminal charges against a Providence boatbuilder for dumping PCBs into Narragansett Bay. The company was fined $600,000 and its owner $75,000; he was put on probation for five years...
...addition, Deland served as Alumni Association Director and Chairman of the Harvard College Fund and in 1982 received the Harvard Medal for extraordinary service to the University...
Known as "Mr. Hospital" among his colleagues, Deland presided over the synthesis of four area Harvard-affiliated hospitals that created Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1980. He served on several other boards of directors, including those of the Harvard Medical Area Services Corporation and the Controlled Risk Insurance Corporation, which insures physicians at Harvard-affiliated hospitals...