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While Watt was backpedaling, another official was also making readjustments for the Administration. Speaking at a breakfast meeting with reporters, William Ruckelshaus, appointed four months ago to head the scandal-rocked Environmental Protection Agency, admitted that former agency officials had "confused ends and means" in setting environmental policy. Without naming Predecessor Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus said that the previous regime had misunderstood the difference between economic and social regulation. The Government's decision to drop its controls of the trucking and airline industries had wide support, he said, "but the situation is much different when you're talking about...
...better than it was 50 years ago." But Darcy Wright, a Tacoma homemaker who lives a mile from the smelter, worries about raising her four-month-old son. Says she: "Somehow I'm going to have to provide him with a protected area." Summed up Ruckelshaus, who stressed that he alone will make the final ruling: "The only way I know how to do it is to open it clear up. Let every bit of information we have out, and let the public wrestle with it the same...
...acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between a reduced but still clear risk of cancer for Tacoma residents and the loss of hundreds of jobs if the plant shuts down. Ruckelshaus' solution was a radically new departure...
...Ruckelshaus called on Tacoma to hold public meetings on the issue next month, with EPA officials participating. Said he: "People need to hear more of what the administrator of this agency hears from the scientists: mainly, that we have a lot of gaps in our knowledge. Most people think the facts are clear, but it is often true that there is enormous dispute over what the facts are. And we just can't sit there and let nature take its course...
...couple, who have been married 21 years and have five children (two by Ruckelshaus' first wife, who died during childbirth), are an even-tempered and devoted pair. Bill likes to tease his wife about being the "radical" in the family, but they seem generally unconcerned at the awkwardness of Jill's publicly criticizing her husband's boss. "I've said before, if it ever came to a choice between my job and my wife," Ruckelshaus says, "I'd choose my wife." Adds Jill: "We're not a fairy-tale couple. And there...