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Ruckelshaus quits EPA after a brief tour of duty
What did he see or what did they tell him?" That question was posed by an official of the Environmental Protection Agency after the sudden resignation of EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus last week following a meeting with White House aides. According to one line of speculation, Ruckelshaus had been told that the agency would be asked to accept a 30% budget cut, despite the President's pro-environment campaign pledges...
Nonsense, said Ruckelshaus, 52, who took over the scandal-ridden agency 18 months ago from Anne Burford after she was pressured into resigning. "The ship called EPA is righted and is now steering a steady course," wrote Ruckelshaus in his resignation letter to the President. In an interview with TIME, he added, "It's time to move on. Agencies need new blood from time to time." He said he had talked to White House aides and to Reagan about his desire to leave, and there had been no mention of sharp budget reductions at EPA...
Residents said Haley & Aldrich also did not test for toxic chemicals such as dioxin, which they said is not included on the EPA's list of 129 priority tests which the firm conducted...
Officials of the suing states were distressed by the EPA position. Thornburgh suggested that it continued a pattern of "discriminatory enforcement." New York's Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo claimed that his state has "the most comprehensive program in the nation to reduce acid rain, but 90% of the acid rain killing our lakes originates in other states. The Administration is leaving us all but defenseless." As for Maine's Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan, he angrily accused the Administration of "saying, in effect, it's O.K. to dump your garbage on your neighbor's lawn...