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Last month Interior Secretary Rogers Morton predicted that he would not reach a decision until perhaps next year. Last week William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, delayed the project even longer. He asked the Interior Department to consider the environmental "impact" of laden tankers sailing down the Pacific coastline and to study in detail an alternate pipeline route-through Canada...
...firing Hickel, though, Nixon replaced him with a potentially tougher law enforcer: the new Environmental Protection Agency under William Ruckelshaus. Nixon also named Russell Train, a respected conservationist, to head the Council on Environmental Quality. He proposed an international treaty to control development of the ocean floors, and signed a bill making oil polluters liable for damage. MORE HIGHWAYS. Congress often matched Nixon's ambivalence. The Senate produced ample environmental crusaders, notably Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and Gaylord Nelson, the instigator of Earth Day. But except for passing Muskie's Clean Air Act, which focuses on auto pollution...
John Mitchell's Justice Department has been considered a sanctuary for Republicans who got their jobs after failing to win political elections. This was true of Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, loser in a 1968 Senate race against Indiana's Birch Bayh. But Ruckelshaus proved to be a winner in the department, where he soon became one of its ablest young (38) voices of moderation. Last spring he persuaded Mitchell to permit a massive antiwar rally near the White House; he even got his boss to make speeches extolling peaceful protest. Now President Nixon has nominated Ruckelshaus...
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...
...Ruckelshaus says bluntly that the Nixon Administration's stress on "jawboning" has failed to reform air polluters, not a single one of whom the Government has yet sued. He does not intend to "launch a big accusatory tirade" against industry. But he has made it clear that the era of delay is over. He even welcomes help from "public-interest" law firms, which the Internal Revenue Service ruled last week can retain their tax-exempt status. The Ruckelshaus appointment requires Senate confirmation; so far, no opposition is expected...