Word: epa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disgrace that President Reagan appoints people to the EPA who make a mockery of this nation's efforts to clean up its carcinogenic filth [Feb. 21]. Ill-qualified administrators who view their environmental-protection duties with indifference may lead us into another national nightmare...
...hard to miss the glaring resemblances in the initial stages of the congressional investigation to a scenario we have encountered before. The refusal of EPA Administrator Anne M. Burford (formerly Gorsuch) to surrender subpoenaed documents, the mysterious use of a paper-shredder to dispose of the documents in question, President Reagan's defense of Burford's obstinacy on the grounds of "executive privilege," the frantic passing-the-buck of various EPA administrators on the witness stand--all of these are too reminiscent of the Watergate hearings to read about without shivering a little...
...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION protest that the EPA follies are only another vehicle to attack it, soon to be filed away in the morgue of old newspaper stories next to past media scapegoats of the moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons...
...right for states to bear the burden of this national, interstate problem, as the Massachusetts State legislature is trying in its creation of a $25 million state Superfund to clean up 50 of the worst Massachusetts hazardous waste dumps, including three of the EPA-determined worst...
...environmental protection agency, in function rather than just in name, is something this country needs desperately. After the political repercussions of the investigations are over--once the only public mentions of the EPA are made in car commercials mileage estimates--the problem of maintaining a habitable world for our children and their children will still exist...