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Nationwide Attack. As chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ruckelshaus will run the nation's most powerful and best-funded ($1.4 billion) pollution-fighting organization. When EPA opens for business on Dec. 2, it will take over 15 component parts of five different (and often conflicting) agencies. EPA will control, for example, the Federal Water Quality Administration and the National Air Pollution Control Administration. The goal is a coordinated federal attack on dirty air and water that will ease the pressure on states, which have long stalled on enforcement for fear of driving away industry. Ruckelshaus will also carry...