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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...
...addition, Gorsuch has cut spending on every major EPA program, including the one that she says deserves top funding priority: the new $1.6 billion "superfund" to clean up abandoned toxic dump sites. She has also urged major retrenchments in the Clean Air Act; late last week she proposed a three-year delay and substantial weakening of impending carbon monoxide emission standards for heavy gasoline-fueled trucks. Mistrustful of the presumed environmentalist bias of career EPA employees, she has centralized control. Research scientists now cannot release findings until they have been approved as "appropriate" by four levels of the bureaucracy; public...
...Hampshire, and from 139,000 to 82,000 in previously hazy Detroit. In one of the many rivers cleaned up under EPA rules, the Penobscot in Maine, one salmon was caught in all of 1970, but nearly one a day by 1978. Under EPA pressure, corporate dumping of toxic wastes into the Gulf of Mexico has dropped from an authorized 1.4 million tons in 1973 to zero...
...information is generated, FACE will develop educational programs to acquaint people with the scope of the problem and to assist them in finding remedies. The group will also play a key role in coordinating the efforts to obtain state and federal support to abate the toxic waste contamination...
...response to the 120-year-old toxic waste contamination, East Woburn citizens--who are particularly concerned about several children who have developed acute leukemia, liver cancers and other diseases-established an action organization "For a Cleaner Environmental" (FACE...