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...Former EPA administrator Anne Burford is appointed to replace William Clark as Secretary of the Interior after Jeanne Kirkpatrick scornfully refused the post. Asked to describe her feelings about the position, Burford labelled her new job a "chickwich...
There is a limit, of course, to how much can be done to detoxify contaminated landfill or to turn a freshly percolating mass of lethal chemicals into the equivalent of whole-wheat flour. That limit is money. In the U.S. alone, the EPA estimates, it would take at least ten years to clean up the 2,200 most dangerous waste sites and require up to ten times the $1.6 billion Congress allocated...
Environmentalists generally agreed that Ruckelshaus, who launched EPA as its first Administrator in 1970, had restored morale and raised the competency of the agency's top officials during his brief return. He fired all ten of the presidentially appointed bureaucrats and replaced them with able administrators. He took the task of cleaning up toxic-waste dumps away from officials friendly to polluters. Ruckelshaus ordered that nearly all of the lead in gasoline be phased out by 1986 and banned the use of the cancer-causing pesticide...
Moving quickly to prevent another sag in spirits at EPA, the President announced that Ruckelshaus would be replaced by Lee Thomas, 40, a blunt, hard-driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...
Thomas is respected at EPA, but will have less clout than Ruckelshaus in urging the Administration to place a higher priority on environmental issues...