Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to dedicate the next four years to obtaining measurable environmental results, according to the agency's new administrator, Lee M. Thomas, in a major policy speech April 3 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In providing an outline for his plans for running the agency, Thomas says that nothing erodes the public's tolerance for a regulatory agency more than the imposition of burdens that appear to have only petty results, or the appearance of not acting aggressively in the public interest. In general, the speech indicates Thomas wants to take a pragmatic approach to pollution control. EPA must choose to do the things it believes are important and do those well, he says. Then, must tell people why we think they are important and why we didn't do other things we think are less important. Problems Thomas considers important at this time include sewage treatment, controlling ozone and ...
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