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...administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency holds one of the most controversial jobs in Washington. Changes in automobile engineering, new restrictions on city traffic, explorations for oil, the pollution of waterways-all this and more come to the EPA chief for a series of decisions that pit environmental interests against business balance sheets, land-use habits and even the traditional American way of life. Comments one conservationist: "In that job you're damned if you do and damned...
...last week, there is a new damned man. Russell E. Train, 53, who has been chairman of the President's advisory Council on Environmental Quality for the past three years, succeeds (the Senate permitting) William Ruckelshaus, who left the EPA three months ago to serve as acting director of the FBI. Ruckelshaus, who was named Deputy Attorney General last week, earned himself the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his repeated jousting with Detroit, and he leaves to Train a feisty, independent agency. Train has the credentials to keep it that way. A Columbia Law School graduate, former minority counsel...
...Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Until recently, everybody assumed that the problem had been solved. This false impression was strengthened last year when the Army provided the Environmental Protection Agency with an inventory of what it had in its stockpiles. The extent of the nerve-gas supplies, about which the EPA had not specifically asked, was not mentioned...
Under the Clean Air Act passed in 1970, urban areas that could not meet national clean-air standards,* designed to protect human health, were told to propose cleanup plans that would meet these standards by 1975. Only a handful of states submitted adequate programs, in the opinion of the EPA. Of the urban areas cited last week, the only city to have its own plan accepted was New York; the other 18 flunked, or did not submit plans, and were assigned compliance schedules by the agency...
...suit grew out of EPA's contention last year that the law permitted states to let air quality slip in some areas as industries relocate from the polluted cities. Environmentalists countered that the law was not written to spread pollution around, but to clean it up. EPA then argued that the rule constitutes a de facto no-growth policy. Attorney Bruce Terris, who presented the case for the clean-air side, replies that the law still allows industrial growth-but not much air pollution. Thus, before moving their plants, managers will have to figure in the costs of effective...