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...disgrace that President Reagan appoints people to the EPA who make a mockery of this nation's efforts to clean up its carcinogenic filth [Feb. 21]. Ill-qualified administrators who view their environmental-protection duties with indifference may lead us into another national nightmare...
...signals were subtle at first, diplomatic hints lobbed from the White House to the Environmental Protection Agency. Presidential Advisers James Baker and Craig Fuller were quoted as saying at midweek that, despite President Reagan's public expressions of confidence in beleaguered EPA Administrator Anne Burford, firing her had indeed become an option. The Administration had counted on its showy, if belated, one-two punch-buying out dioxin-tainted Times Beach, Mo., and bolstering Burford with five seasoned deputies-to cool the controversy that has paralyzed the agency. But it soon became apparent that the EPA tar baby...
...prepared to dislodge her, Burford insisted that she had done nothing wrong and would fight being "fed to the wolves." In a stunning public break with the White House, Burford told her aides, who dutifully leaked her remarks to the press, that Reagan and his advisers had botched the EPA crisis from start to finish. She said that she thought Reagan had received bad advice and that she had opposed his decision to withhold subpoenaed documents from House subcommittees probing charges of mismanagement, conflict of interest and political favoritism in the $1.6 billion Superfund program to clean up the nation...
...right for states to bear the burden of this national, interstate problem, as the Massachusetts State legislature is trying in its creation of a $25 million state Superfund to clean up 50 of the worst Massachusetts hazardous waste dumps, including three of the EPA-determined worst...
...environmental protection agency, in function rather than just in name, is something this country needs desperately. After the political repercussions of the investigations are over--once the only public mentions of the EPA are made in car commercials mileage estimates--the problem of maintaining a habitable world for our children and their children will still exist...