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...trying to raise the agency's reputation, and employee morale, from the ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan aide: "He more than anybody can pour cold water on the flames...
Charges fly that Waste Management mishandled toxic garbage...
...When outsiders visited a cleanup site in Seymour, Ind., for instance, they saw work crews in protective clothing taking samples from drums of hazardous refuse for white-coated chemists to analyze in nearby laboratories. Other neatly uniformed workers transported the waste to two of the company's 15 toxic-chemical disposal sites, where it was buried in a landfill under tons of clay or injected into a deep underground well. Such attention to niceties helped Waste Management become the U.S. leader in the disposal of hazardous garbage and made its stock a Wall Street favorite. Two weeks...
...last week some highly toxic public muck was flying in Waste Management's direction, and some of it seemed to be sticking. Former employees, including two who left to work for competitors and a third who was fired, charged that dangerous materials had been handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that...
...part, Waste Management is a victim of heightened visibility brought on by the dioxin contamination of Times Beach, Mo., and the scandal in the Environmental Protection Agency over the program to clean up toxic wastes. Yet the company has been the target of a number of lawsuits, and it has been found guilty of price fixing in Georgia. Says Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan: "They are always saying the same thing, that it's just a technical mistake. What it is is corporate irresponsibility...