Last year, 1995, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated its 25th birthday. Can the new year, 1996, be a year for improving our environmental programs? Tremendous environmental improvements have been made, and EPA's goals have largely been attained, especially in industry compliance. Yet we hear more cries for change than words of congratulation. The EPA should be dissolved, argued Louis Theodore, a respected engineering educator, in a recent publication of the Air & Waste Management Assn. EPA is paralyzed by conflict and must be reformed, says William Ruckelshaus, the agency's first administrator and now CEO of Browning-Ferris Inds.
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