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...Within the first few months the Administration helped strike down workplace-safety regulations, tried to make it harder for people to declare bankruptcy, froze stricter regulations governing road building in wilderness areas and arsenic pollution, and rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty over the objections of Bush's own EPA chief, Christie Whitman. Democrats were appalled by what they saw as a hard right turn. The Bushies suggest that Democrats just got mad at being outmaneuvered. "Democrats think he's not nearly as smart as they are," says Calio. "Then he sets out and makes friends, and that catches them...
DIED. ANNE BURFORD, 62, contentious former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during Ronald Reagan's presidency; of cancer; in Aurora, Colo. The second highest woman in the Reagan Administration, she was a lightning rod for environmentalists as she slashed the EPA budget and scaled back Superfund payments in the name of states' rights and sensible regulation. After two years, she was forced to resign following her refusal to hand over toxic-waste documents to Congress. "I was a small fish on the way to a big fry," she said later...
...It’s not something the EPA has done a lot of, but we are moving more and more towards studying cumulative impacts,” Fields said...
According to the EPA website, “A Superfund site is any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the [EPA] as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and/or the environment...
Rebecca Jim, executive leader of Local Environmental Action Demanded (L.E.A.D.), a non-profit advocacy organization in Oklahoma, said Tar Creek is the oldest and largest Superfund site. She added that the EPA has already spent over $100 million in efforts to clean up the site...