Abstract

You might forgive Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William K. Reilly for boasting, The agency is centrally engaged in some very important questions and is addressing them with great care and energy and responsibility—and largely with considerable success. He has been wrestling with some complex and controversial issues of late: global warming, wetlands protection, clean air legislation, Cabinet status for EPA. And he has been doing this balanced precariously on a political tightrope. As he strives to maintain his environmental credentials and remain the Administration's emissary to the environmental community, he must also serve a President who wants to balance environmental goals with sound economics. This often finds Reilly fending off charges that he is losing clout with both environmentalists and the President—and that economics and not ecological concerns are being given precedence in the Bush Administration. All this recently came to a head. In one week Reilly had to accept a number o...

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