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Whatever the merits of Nixon's argument-and environmentalists do sometimes tend to ignore the price of their proposals-the President had few supporters. His own environmental administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus, had pointed out that the money could be spent over several years and urged Nixon to approve the legislation. Congressional Democrats spoke vehemently. Senator Edmund Muskie saw the veto primarily as a gesture in support of industrial polluters, and Senator George McGovern said the Administration's whole record on pollution was one of "hypocritical platitudes coupled with spineless inaction." Within two hours of the veto message...
...enforcer," said President Nixon when he appointed William D. Ruckelshaus as the EPA'S first administrator. The clean-water act uses him as just that. His biggest job would be to police the efforts of the individual states, which would be directly in charge of the cleanup. The states would issue permits, written to meet EPA standards, specifying limits on every plant that discharges wastes into waterways. If a state is too lenient with a polluter-violations can cost $25,000 a day (plus a year in jail for plant officials)-the EPA chief could intervene and even take...
...over their strenuous objections in 1970, automakers have argued loudly that the law's standards for exhaust emissions on '75 and '76 model cars will be all but impossible to meet. For all their efforts, they failed to make their plight quite believable to William D. Ruckelshaus. Earlier this year his Environmental Protection Agency summarily rejected the automakers' application for a delay in the deadline. Last week, in a major change of strategy, General Motors disclosed that its scientists were farther along in meeting the new requirements than company officials had previously admitted...
Less on display but working just as hard behind the scenes were other softspoken, steely, resolute women intent on hammering out a party platform that would recognize women's rightful role in the G.O.P. The Republicans' answer to Gloria Steinem was Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency. "She has helped to de-radicalize the movement in the eyes of Republican women," says Kitty Clyde, a comely press aide to Anne Armstrong. De-radicalize? A phrase is born. A Roman Catholic mother of five with the clear-eyed look of a swimming instructor...
...convention that will be watched-and not just by insomniacs." Everything is under control, observes the wry Dole, including a "spontaneous floor demonstration for Nixon and Agnew." Dissent is muted, polite, served up in small doses. There is no Bella Abzug storming around denouncing the nominee; instead Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, makes a discreet, ladylike case for more lenient abortion laws...