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...posts in the federal government are as thankless as the job of running the Environmental Protection Agency. Green groups fly into a rage when they perceive the EPA lowering its protective vigilance;?industries find every regulation?a threat to their bottom lines. Who wouldn't grow weary of these warring factions? Christine Todd Whitman did, and announced last month that she will leave her post as EPA administrator on June 27. The short list of prospective replacements, confirmed by a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity, consists of Tom Skinner, the head of an EPA regional office; Idaho...
...Skinner runs the EPA's Midwestern district, which includes six states from Ohio, west to Illinois and northwest to Minnesota. His relative anonymity, even among liberal beltway EPA watchers, could be a bonus; a blank political slate can trump a documented history. As head of an EPA regional office (and former Illinois EPA chief), Skinner sees to it that states and the companies within them comply with the agency's rules and standards - licensing and inspecting big polluters, and issuing clean-up orders...
...Fisher, Whitman's deputy at EPA, is expected to become acting director later this month. Highly regarded within the agency, Fisher also maintains a good reputation among some prominent environmentalists. But green groups are likely to resist her nomination nonetheless, feeling she is tainted by Bush's policies. She held important posts in the Reagan and first-Bush EPAs. During the Clinton years, she managed the government affairs office for Monsanto, the chemical and biotechnology company. Fisher's candidacy is a hat-tip to her work in the agency and the civil servants below her. But it may only...
...DEQE was only one in a series of hurdles the project had to clear. MATEP’s planners insisted that the plant be exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pollution regulations because of Harvard’s non-profit status. In December 1980, Bok wrote to then-Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King seeking exemption from the act, which was granted on a probationary basis...
...This is the kind of job when you come home at the end of the day, you really like to have someone to sound off to, and the plants just weren't doing it for me." CHRISTIE WHITMAN, who resigned as head of the EPA, saying she wanted to spend more time with her husband in New Jersey...