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...Assistant Secretary of Labor for Administration and Management, was named to take over for Horton on an acting basis. EPA Official Courtney Riordan, 45, the acting administrator for research and development, was named to the post permanently. The White House tapped Lee Thomas, 38, to replace the ousted Rita Lavelle as head of the agency's hazardous-waste program. The Administration also created a new congressional-liaison job designed to smooth ruffled relations between Capitol Hill and the agency, and nominated Lee Verstandig, 45, an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, to fill it. The new appointees are widely regarded...
While the White House worked to defuse the controversy, Congress was heading in a different direction. In an appearance before a House subcommittee, Rita Lavelle testified that regional offices of the EPA have been looking into charges that a "pattern" of organized-crime involvement in toxic-waste disposal exists. Lavelle also revealed that she had met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and White House Cabinet Secretary Craig Fuller "ten or twelve" times to discuss specific toxic-waste issues, although she said neither tried to influence any of the agency's decisions. The White House subsequently said that its counsel...
Burford's inability to clean up America's hazardous wastes may stem from a number of sources. She may have been thwarted by Superfund administrator Rita Lavelle, whom Burford recently fired for her connections with chemical-industry polluters. But many insiders see Lavelle as Burford's scapegoat. Burford herself may have business or personal links amounting to a conflict of interest: the EPA recently awarded a $7.7 million cleanup contract to a company accused of being a polluter in its own right--a company represented by Denver attorney James Sanderson. Sanderson, who is currently being investigated by the FBI, recently...
...President also ordered the Justice Department to investigate whether EPA employees shredded subpoenaed documents and whether the agency's ousted assistant administrator, Rita Lavelle, violated conflict-of-interest laws. In addition, the Administration agreed to settle the case of EPA Whistle Blower Hugh Kaufman, who had charged that Lavelle and other agency officials had harassed him after he publicly criticized the EPA'S sluggish record on purging poisonous wastes. Kaufman's "unsatisfactory" rating was The struck and his pay made...
...agency's hazardous-waste section just a few weeks after Gorsuch was held in contempt for refusing to yield documents from that office. Offering testimony studded with contradictions, they displayed EPA press releases titled "Second Shredder Response" and "Shredder Update." Gene Lucero, an assistant to Rita Lavelle when she ran the section, said that the agency had mistakenly ordered two extra shredders and a "helpful clerk" offered them to Lavelle's section...