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...environment, and found the public nearly as critical of Reagan as of Burford. Though his aides say Reagan's environmental policy will not shift direction with a change at the top of EPA, they hope to convince the public that the Administration is serious about cleaning up toxic wastes. In a way Burford's departure raises the stakes. "Anne was taking the heat for Ronald Reagan's environmental policy," said one senior aide. "Now the heat has been transferred to Ronald Reagan." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported by Jay Branegan and Douglas Brew/Washington
...Toxic Troubles...
...finish. She said that she thought Reagan had received bad advice and that she had opposed his decision to withhold subpoenaed documents from House subcommittees probing charges of mismanagement, conflict of interest and political favoritism in the $1.6 billion Superfund program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps...
LIKE THE POISON that spreads invisibly from underground toxic waste dumps into our drinking water, the various facets of the scandal surrounding the investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have seeped far from the source. It is these widespread consequences that have made the affair so shocking and so disturbing...
...were reports that the main subject of the investigation, the agency's "Superfund"--money designated to help clean up hazardous waste dumps--had been turned into a political weapon. One particularly glaring example is the convincing charge that Superfund dollars were diverted from a project to clean up a toxic waste site in California to damage former governor Jerry Brown's 1982 Senate attempt...