Word: environmentally
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...Mike Synar. "The management and honesty of the EPA are the issues." Democrats will have ample opportunity to score further political points. Hearings were scheduled to begin this week in Congress on tightening up the laws governing waste disposal. The scandal's repercussions are likely to affect other environmental legislation, spurring Congress to reauthorize a passel of environmental measures that have lapsed and strengthen clean-air-and-water laws this session. Says Republican Senator John Chafee, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: "This Administration will not want to be portrayed as lukewarm on the environment...
...poisonous-waste disposal. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released March 5 showed that a majority of Americans believe the President would rather protect polluters than clean up the environment, and found the public nearly as critical of Reagan as of Burford. Though his aides say Reagan's environmental policy will not shift direction with a change at the top of EPA, they hope to convince the public that the Administration is serious about cleaning up toxic wastes. In a way Burford's departure raises the stakes. "Anne was taking the heat for Ronald Reagan's environmental...
Perhaps being used to the city lights of Boston, Mr. Zucker would not fit into the Colby environment, where you cannot rely on being spoon fed and having your hands held while being shown. One of the advantages of colleges like Colby, located on the outer reaches of the empire...
Good reasons for deep concern were present. First, of all major nations, Germany is perhaps the most polled, probed, poked, and questionnaired. In recent months, several leading polls prior to local state elections had proved significantly in error. Now, in this national election, few people trusted poll predictions. Second, with...
Congress was in full cry after Burford's scalp, and the war whoops were not coming just from the political opposition. House G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel and Senator Robert Stafford, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called for her ouster. Other Republicans wrote to Reagan urging...