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Posted: Thu 4:02, 01 Aug 2013 Post subject: to speak for the environment |
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historian at Penn State University:Triumphs:The most interesting thing to me about the EPA was that when it was founded,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the first director, William Ruckelshaus,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said two things I think were really fascinating. He said the mission of the agency was really to encourage an environmental ethic in the American people. It's probably an impossible task for a government agency, but that spirit is really fascinating. The EPA really did try,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], beyond issuing regulations, to speak for the environment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to try to change the way people saw our relationship to nature.The other interesting thing he said was that the agency had no obligation to promote commerce or industry--they had their own departments. Eventually, in the '80s, the EPA was forced to balance environmental and economic goals. But in the early years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that wasn't its job.Stumbles:Over time, business became much more aggressive in pushing to change how the EPA operated in order to ensure that it had to take into consideration economic issues and risk assessment.Then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
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