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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and representatives of U.S. automotive manufacturing and engine companies this morning will anounce the appointment of Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor, to direct a private non-profit organization to study the impact of auto emissions on public health...
Negotiations between the EPA and the automobile industry to establish the Institute have gone on for the past two years. Mike Walsh, deputy assistant administrator of the EPA's pollution control department, said yesterday Cox's appointment is based upon his legal orientation and ability to negotiate...
...heads the liberal lobbying group Common Cause, said the Institute's role will be to take necessary scientific research "out of the adversarial contexts" which have prevented cooperation between the EPA and automobile manufacturers and to establish a base for "independent scientific investigation...
Conflicts over emission standards have been a long-time barrier to relations between the EPA and the automotive industry. Powers said that both interests can now stop "shooting at each other...
Costle, who will leave his office with the Carter Administration in January, doesn't see the Reagan administration as necessarily bad for the EPA. The extremism of rhetoric and ideas seen during the campaign will be quickly moderated, he said. "They'll have to face up to the everyday nitty-gritty that is public policy," Costle said...