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...walls of Anne Gorsuch's spartan Washington office are hung with tasteful, unobtrusive pictures of wildlife, as befits her role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her enemies, who are becoming legion, suggest that more suitable decoration would be stark photos of toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities...
...Colorado legislator in the late '70s, Gorsuch, 39, led a successful battle to block her state's participation in the EPA's hazardous-wastes program. She also fought for less stringent auto emission standards in a Colorado clean-air law. Thus when President Reagan nominated her last February to be the nation's chief enforcer against pollution, environmentalists were appalled. They feared that she had been appointed less to run the agency than to dismantle it. As she completes the first year of her imperious reign-restive subordinates at EPA call her the "Ice Queen"-conservationists...
...Gorsuch insists that she believes in EPA's cleanup programs and its statutory pledge of independence from industry and special interests. But, she argues, "the agency's work can be done better and more efficiently without the same commitment of resources...
...Governor responded by asking the EPA to re-evaluate its policy on endrin use and petitioning Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for more money to monitor the problem in Montana. The state fish and game commission, meanwhile, conducted studies of toxin levels in 100 game fowl and announced that it would decide whether or not hunting could go on. Most hunters, busy polishing their shotguns and checking their decoys, would not comment on the situation...
...Gorsuch claimed that the nation's air quality would continue to improve, but "at a more reasoned pace." Environmentalists immediately assailed the plan. Said Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition: "This is a sugar-coated prescription for dirty, unhealthy air." Reagan defended his environmental policies and those of beleaguered Interior Secretary James Watt last week, branding critics "environmental extremists." Said he: "What Watt's trying to do is a little bit like getting a mule's attention-you hit him in the forehead with a two-by-four first...