Word: epa
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...Colorado legislator in the late '70s, Gorsuch, 39, led a successful battle to block her state's participation in the EPA's hazardous-wastes program. She also fought for less stringent auto emission standards in a Colorado clean-air law. Thus when President Reagan nominated her last February to be the nation's chief enforcer against pollution, environmentalists were appalled. They feared that she had been appointed less to run the agency than to dismantle it. As she completes the first year of her imperious reign-restive subordinates at EPA call her the "Ice Queen"-conservationists...
Gorsuch insists that she believes in EPA's cleanup programs and its statutory pledge of independence from industry and special interests. But, she argues, "the agency's work can be done better and more efficiently without the same commitment of resources...
Critics claim that her real goal is to slash the agency's budget and staff so deeply that it cannot function. Gorsuch has volunteered reductions in EPA spending from $1.36 billion a year when she took office to less than $950 million by fiscal 1983. A ranking official of EPA last week disclosed that Gorsuch is readying dismissal notices for at least 750 of the agency's 4,200 Washington headquarters staff and probably for a commensurate percentage of the 5,800 field staff. Those cuts would come on top of the 1,000 jobs already eliminated...
Residents of Brookline and Mission Hill--the towns nearest MATEP's Brookline Ave. and Francis St. Boston location--appealed the EPA decision, contending that an energy plant incorporated by Harvard as a for-profit institution failed to qualify for the exemption...
MATEP qualifies as "non-profit," Bownes wrote, because it is "wholly owned by a non-profit institution, Harvard" and because the EPA "could reasonably conclude that the facility will not make a profit on its sales of electricity, steam heat and chilled water" to six Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in addition to filling the complete energy needs of the Medical School, Dental School and School of Public Health...