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...Continuing its push to from the new "Defeat is Victory" program, the K-School announces the appointment of former EPA head Anne Burford and former Secretary of State Alexander Haig as fellows. With the weather turning warm, tents are put up on Kennedy St. to house a rapidly developing overflow. "Indoors is outdoors," chuckles Dean Allison, "at least sort...
Those charges grew out of allegations that Lavelle had participated in EPA decisions involving her former employer, Aerojet-General Corp. In a signed statement sent to a congressional committee a year ago, Lavelle testified that she had removed herself from any dealings with Aerojet on June 18, 1982, the day after she learned the company had dumped wastes at the Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside, Calif. But other EPA officials testified that Lavelle had known about her old firm's involvement three weeks earlier and had even warned the company that the EPA was looking into the matter...
...sharp contrast to the closed-door management style of his predecessor, Burford, Ruckelshaus announced that he would operate the EPA in a "fishbowl." He has done so, right down to making public his daily appointment book. Known for his integrity (he resigned as Nixon's Deputy Attorney General in 1973 rather than fire the Watergate special prosecutor), Ruckelshaus, 51, is a veteran of Government hotspots, including a stint as acting director of the FBI in 1973. Easygoing and open, he consults widely within the agency before making decisions, walking through the departments and sharing brown-bag lunches with lower...
Ruckelshaus has not changed EPA policy completely, but incrementally and without fanfare. Among his most significant actions...
...reversed the EPA's policy on paying to clean up toxic-waste sites out of the $1.6 billion superfund that Congress appropriated for that purpose. Under Lavelle, the Government dickered endlessly with industry over who would bear the cost. Meanwhile, the dumps festered. Ruckelshaus' policy is "Clean now, worry about who pays later...