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REMARKS FOR SWEARING-IN OF WILLIAM K. REILLY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
FEBRUARY 8, 1989
I AM TOLD THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A PRESIDENT HAS
VISITED THE EPA
WELL, I'M GLAD TO BE THE FIRST. IN MY
SEARCH FOR A FIRST-RATE EPA ADMINISTRATOR, ONE OF MY TOP
PRIORITIES WAS TO FIND SOMEONE WITH STRONG CREDENTIALS AS
A LEADER IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ...
AND THAT MAN
IS WILLIAM REILLY.
2
I HOPE IT'S PLAIN TO EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM AND AROUND
THE COUNTRY THAT AMONG THE FIRST ITEMS ON MY PERSONAL
AGENDA AS PRESIDENT IS THE PROTECTION OF AMERICA'S
ENVIRONMENT.
I AM PLEDGED TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF AMERICAN
LIFE -- FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE AIR WE BREATHE,
THE WATER WE DRINK, AND THE LAND GOD HAS ENTRUSTED US TO
USE WISELY. I'VE JUST COME FROM THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY
OF OUR NEW SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR -- MANUEL LUJAN.
3
INTERIOR AND EPA MUST WORK AS PARTNERS IN KEEPING OUR AIR,
LAND AND WATER CLEAN -- AND OUR PUBLIC LANDS SECURE.
I'M SURE ALL OF YOU KNOW BY NOW BILL REILLY'S
INCREDIBLE BACKGROUND IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
...
PRESIDENT OF THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, ONE OF THE
NATION'S OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL THINK TANKS
PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND-U.S.
4
HE BEGAN HIS CAREER IN THIS FIELD AS A SENIOR STAFF
MEMBER OF THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
IN THE EARLY 70s AND THEN AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
TASK FORCE ON LAND USE AND URBAN GROWTH. A LEADER IN ONE
OF THE OTHER MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HAS SAID OF
BILL THAT HE HAS, I'M QUOTING NOW, "WITHOUT QUESTION
THE MOST PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBSTANCE OF ISSUES OF
ANY OF THE C.E.O.s" OF ANY OF THE CONSERVATION
ORGANIZATIONS. THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHY I PICKED
BILL.
5
I THOUGHT I'D TELL YOU A STORY THAT WILL TELL YOU
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT WHY I PICKED HIM. ABOUT A YEAR AND A
HALF AGO, BILL CONVENED A FORUM ON THE WETLANDS CRISIS.
HE BROUGHT TOGETHER 25 PEOPLE WHO, AS THE WASHINGTON POST
PUT IT, "NORMALLY WOULD HAVE DIFFICULTY AGREEING [EVEN] ON
A PLACE FOR DINNER."
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEVELOPERS, INDUSTRIALISTS, STATE
AND FEDERAL REGULATORS -- ALL WERE THERE. AND THE RESULT?
6
BY THE TIME BILL WAS THROUGH WITH THEM, WHICH TOOK MORE
THAN A YEAR, THEY'D PUT ASIDE DIFFERENCES AND CALLED FOR
"NO NET LOSS" OF WETLANDS, AND THEY'D AGREED ON 100
REFORMS TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL.
I SPOKE THE OTHER DAY ABOUT WANTING TO BROADEN THE
CONSENSUS FOR DEFENSE. BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY CONSENSUS
I WOULD LIKE TO BROADEN. I WANT TO BROADEN THE CONSENSUS
FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, AND I BELIEVE DOING THAT REQUIRES
FINDING WAYS TO CLEAN UP THE ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT STIFLING
THE ECONOMY.
7
DURING THE CAMPAIGN I NOTED THAT "
ENVIRONMENTAL
ACTION HAS TOO OFTEN BEEN MARKED BY CONFRONTATION AMONG
COMPETING INTERESTS. [WHILE] THE FACT IS THAT MORE OFTEN
THAN NOT, THERE IS COMMON GROUND IF THE PARTIES WILL MAKE
AN EFFORT TO FIND IT."
OUR GREAT COMMON DESIRE IS A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL
AMERICANS -- AND I BELIEVE THAT ECONOMIC GROWTH AND A
CLEAN ENVIRONMENT ARE BOTH PART OF WHAT ALL AMERICANS
UNDERSTAND A BETTER LIFE TO MEAN.
8
I ALSO BELIEVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE IMPATIENT FOR
RESULTS. THEY WON'T ACCEPT EXCUSES. THEY WON'T ACCEPT
FINGER POINTING. THEY WANT US TO GET ALL THE SIDES
TOGETHER AND FIND A WAY TO ACHIEVE BOTH THEIR GOALS.
By THE WAY, THE OTHER DAY I GOT A LITTLE LESSON IN
JUST HOW IMPATIENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE. IN THE
MORNING MAIL I FOUND LETTERS FROM 7TH GRADERS AT A CHURCH
SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA. I THOUGHT I'D SHARE ONE WITH YOU,
DATED JANUARY 20TH, THE DAY I WAS INAUGURATED.
9
IT SAID, AND REMEMBER, THIS WAS ON THE DAY I WAS JUST
TAKING OFFICE, "DEAR MR. PRESIDENT, WOULD YOU PLEASE DO
SOMETHING ABOUT POLLUTION. I AM NOT SAYING YOU'RE DOING A
BAD JOB, BUT COULD YOU PUT A LITTLE MORE EFFORT INTO IT?"
WELL, WITH BILL REILLY AT THE HELM HERE, WE'RE GOING
TO PUT A LOT MORE EFFORT INTO IT.
[AND NOW I BELIEVE IT'S TIME TO SWEAR BILL IN.]
III
(Judge/cw)
February 6, 1989
5:45 p.m.
clark10
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
SWEARING IN OF WILLIAM K. REILLY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1989
I am told this is the first time a president has visited
this building
which, may I say, is a first that is long
overdue. In my search for a first-rate EPA Administrator, one of
top priorities was to find someone with strong credentials as a
leader in the environmental community
and that man is
William Reilly.
I hope it's plain to everyone in this room and around the
country that among the first items on my personal agenda as
President is the protection of America's environment.
This is a great day for improving the quality of American
life -- for improving the quality of the air we breathe, the
water we drink, and the land God has entrusted us to use wisely.
I've just come from the swearing-in ceremony another great friend
of the environment -- our new Secretary of the Interior -- Manuel
Lujan. I want them to work as partners in keeping our air, land
and water clean -- and our public lands secure.
I'm sure all of you know by now Bill Reilly's incredible
background in environmental protection
president of the
Conservation Foundation, one of the nation's outstanding
environmental think tanks
president of the U.S. Affiliate of
the World Wildlife Fund. He began his career in this field as a
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senior staff member of the President's Council on Environmental
Quality in the early 70s and then as executive director of the
Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth. A leader in one of the
other major environmental organizations has said of Bill that he
has, I'm quoting now, "without question
the most personal
knowledge of the substance of issues of any of the C.E.O.s" of
any of the conservation organizations. That gives you an idea of
why I picked Bill.
I thought I'd tell you a story that will tell you something
more about why I picked him. About a year and a half ago, Bill
convened a forum on the wetlands crisis. He brought together 25
people who, as the Washington Post put it, "normally would have
difficulty agreeing [even] on a place for dinner."
Environmentalists, developers, industrialists, state and
federal regulators -- all were there. And the result? By the
time Bill was through with them, which took more than a year,
they'd put aside differences and called for 'no net loss' of
wetlands, and they'd agreed on 100 reforms to achieve that goal.
I spoke the other day about wanting to broaden the consensus
for defense. But that's not the only consensus I would like to
broaden. I want to broaden the consensus for a clean
environment, and I believe doing that requires finding ways to
clean up the environment without stifling the economy.
During the campaign I noted that "
environmental action
has too often been marked by confrontation among competing
interests
[while] the fact is that more often than not, there
is common ground if the parties will make an effort to find it."
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Our great common desire is a better life for all Americans
-- and I believe that economic growth and a clean environment are
both part of what all Americans understand a better life to mean.
I also believe the American people are impatient for
results. They won't accept excuses. They won't accept finger
pointing. They want us to get all the sides together and find a
way to achieve both their goals.
By the way, the other day I got a little lesson in just how
impatient the American people are. In the morning mail I found
letters from 7th graders at a church school in California. I
thought I'd share one with you, dated January 20th, the day I was
inaugurated. It said, and remember, this was on the day I was
just taking office, "Dear Mr. President, Would you please do
something about pollution. I am not saying you're doing a bad
job, but could you put a little more effort into it?"
Well, with Bill Reilly at the helm here, we're going to put
a lot more effort into it.
[And now I believe it's time to swear Bill in.]
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THE WEEKLY ON POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
OCT. 29, 1988/NO. 44
InsideaBushWhiteHouse
IN PERSON
William K. Reilly
By Rochelle L. Stanfield
William K. Reilly, the president of the
Conservation Foundation for the past
15 years, is often described as the man
in the middle on environmental issues.
"It has seemed to me for a long time,"
he said, "that an important part of re-
sponding to our environmental prob-
lems is a responsible understanding of
the social and economic context in
which decisions about the environ-
ment are made."
For that reason, "it was no acci-
dent," Reilly said, that he was at-
tracted to the foundation, an organiza-
tion he characterizes as "a highly
regarded spokesman for what I like to
Richard A. Bloom
think of as the inclusive view of con-
servation."
The Conservation Foundation's
inclusivity sets it apart from most
An Environmental Leader
other environmental organizations,
which typically file lawsuits or take
extreme positions on legislation. The
Who'd Prefer to Negotiate
foundation tries to get all sides in a
room and negotiate a consensus.
that he has gone to Reilly for help in
national environmental issues, Reilly
Reilly believes strongly in the need
convening meetings. "He does exactly
in 1985 arranged a merger between the
for balance, although he recognizes
the kind of bringing people together,
Conservation Foundation and the
that as a consequence, he is often con-
sitting around the table and talking
World Wildlife Fund, an international
sidered outside the environmental
things through that I think is needed,"
organization that works in developing
club. "If you are sensitive to econom-
Thomas said.
countries to preserve wildlife. "I see
ics and if you see one of your functions
Reilly, 48, was attracted to the envi-
the centrality of land and decisions
as bridging the various interests and
ronmental movement because of "my
about land conservation in the devel-
making sure they are involved in
feeling for the land," he said, which
oping world," he said. "The economic
something that will affect them, then
dates back to weekends at a family
context [of actions helping or hinder-
you are seen as a moderate or conser-
farm in downstate Illinois, not far
ing the environment] is an even more
vative, and that is what happened to
from his childhood home in Decatur.
fundamental, more unavoidable im-
us," he said. "I would argue from the
He graduated from Yale University
perative in the developing world."
environmental view that if you don't
and Harvard Law School, where he
Reilly made changes in the Con-
do that, you won't develop enduring
wrote a thesis on land reform in Chile.
servation Foundation when he took
policies and laws. We simply cannot
Years later, he took a took a master's
over, "really emphasizing the interdis-
effect environmental improvements
degree in urban planning from Colum-
ciplinary character of the institution
without the cooperation of business."
bia University.
and deepening its capacity to do the
Reilly and his group draw mixed re-
"Bill Reilly, without question, is the
research that has served as a basis for a
views. David K. Baker, political direc-
brightest of the CEOs of any conserva-
lot of our policy analysis," he said.
tor of Friends of the Earth Inc., sees
tion organization and has the most
Now he intends to do the same with
the Conservation Foundation's ap-
personal knowledge of the substance
the World Wildlife Fund, which has
proach as elitist. "In the end, it is non-
of issues of any of the CEOs," said T.
had a low profile in Congress. "I don't
inclusive because it leaves important
Destry Jarvis, vice president for con-
think we'll become activist in the sense
people out-the people who don't
servation policy of the National Parks
of bringing lawsuits and engaging in
have a lot of money," he said. "The
and Conservation Association.
confrontation," he said. "But we are
people taking the adversarial approach
At the White House Council on
increasing our congressional represen-
are closer to the relative have-nots."
Environmental Quality from 1970-72,
tation for both institutions."
Others disagree. "Bill Reilly and his
Reilly specialized in such issues as
Reilly says he is optimistic about the
institution fill a wide moderate, mid-
coastal zone management and mineral
next Administration's leadership in
dle-of-the-road niche," said Brock Ev-
leasing. In 1972-73, he was executive
this area. "I hope the next President
ans, the National Audubon Society's
director of the Task Force on Land
will have an expert on the environment
vice president for national issues.
Use and Urban Growth.
close to hand, as previous Presidents
Environmental Protection Agency
Land use remains a high priority for
have had," he said. And he added: "I
administrator Lee M. Thomas is such
Reilly and his organization. Sensing
am not interested in a job. This is a
a fan of both Reilly and the foundation
the forthcoming importance of inter-
very satisfying place."
2736 NATIONAL JOURNAL 10/29/88
A HEALTHY AMERICA
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
University of California, San Diego
October 14, 1988
I'd like to talk to you today about my vision for this country; about
how I would set about building a better America. One part of that vision
-- a very big part -- is working for a cleaner and safer environment. The
mission of a President is to lead -- and I'd like to lead this country, and
the other nations of the world, to a greater understanding of the threats
facing our planet, and to a greater commitment to meeting and resolving
them.
The other night, I flew here to southern California from Seattle. As I
looked out the window, past the silvery wing of Air Force Two, I could see
the sun setting over the Pacific, casting its orange, purple, and pink hues
across the sky. I could see the dark, jagged mountains of the Coastal
Range, draped in white mist. And in that moment, I knew once again why you
in California -- with its special beauty -- have a special appreciation for
the environment which surrounds you.
I have spent my life enjoying what nature has to offer, whether fishing
or camping or enjoying the open sea. I've worked -- as a Congressman, and
since -- to protect that natural beauty, whether by creating a national
park in my home state of Texas, or pushing last year for a worldwide
agreement to cut CFC production and protect the ozone layer.
So I say this from the bottom of my heart: in George Bush, you will
have a President who is committed to conservation. As I've said before in
this campaign, I am an environmentalist. The kind of beauty I spied
through that small window on the plane the other night must be preserved.
A better America is a cleaner America.
Building a cleaner America won't always be easy. Here in California --
a state adding 680,000 new residents a year -- you know the strains which
rapid growth can place on the environment. But if we don't see the need to
act clearly, future generations will not only see it dramatically in
retrospect, they'll have to live with the consequences of our inaction.
After all it's no mistake that in Jackson, Wyoming, the second director of
the National Park Service, Horace Albright, was hailed as a savior by the
grandchildren of the people who hung him in effigy in the town square.
The fact is that, ultimately, the goal of a clean and healthy
environment is not in conflict with the need to create jobs in a growing
economy. Quite, the contrary: in the long run, successful environmental
protection is a prerequisite to solid, sustainable economic growth.
There is another truth -- and that is that we Americans cannot protect
our environment alone.
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You at Scripps recognize that fact better than most. I read just this
week of your Collaborative Research program, under which your scientists
will team up to study those global processes which are contributing to a
warming in the earth's climate.
The point is that many of the major environmental problems we face --
global warming, acid rain, the deterioration of the oceans, tropical
deforestation -- are truly international in nature. Their solution will
require a President who is adept at negotiating with friend and foe alike
-- a President who is willing to lead on a global scale and who has the
experience and knowledge to do SO.
And that is why I have pledged that in my first year in office, I will
convene a global conference on the environment, at the White House, to
address global warming, acid rain, and the full range of challenge before
us.
Here in southern California, perhaps the most pressing environmental
concern is air quality. Your growth, not only here in San Diego but
especially up⁻in Los Angeles, has not come without a price -- a price
commonly described with four letters: s-m-o-g.
I believe that we can take immediate steps to make our air healthier to
breathe, beyond those we're already taking. One of the little-known
successes of this Administration has been to eliminate the overwhelming
majority of airborne lead. Levels of ambient lead in the air have declined
by nearly 90% in the last ten years, and one of the key accomplishments of
the Task Force on Regulatory Relief which I headed was to accelerate this
reduction.
But now there is much more to be done, as the quality of the air this
summer proved beyond doubt. The most pressing need is to reduce levels of
ambient ozone, which contributes to smog and has too often made the air
dangerous to breathe.
One of my priorities as Vice President has been to lead the search for
alternative fuels -- so-called "clean fuels" such as methanol made from
remote natural gas and ethanol made from grain -- and to promote their use.
I am proud to report that progress is on the horizon.
Already, four western cities -- Los Angeles, Denver, Albuquerque, and
Phoenix -- have initiated alternative fuel programs to clean up their air.
And today in Washington, President Reagan signed a bill -- the
Alternative Motor Fuels Act of 1988 -- that will encourage the production
of cars, trucks and buses that can run exclusively on these fuels, and of
"dual-fuel" vehicles that can run on any combination of gasoline and
alternative fuels.
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That bill was one of the principle goals of the Task Force I mentioned;
it was pushed through Congress with the strong support of Congressman
Lowery and his colleagues Carlos Moorehead and Bill Dannemeyer in the
House, and your own great Senator Pete Wilson; and, most important, it will
help lead to cleaner air for southern California.
A "dual-fuel" car using methanol emits only half as much ozone as a
regular car. The goal is to have several million clean-fuel vehicles
operating in southern California by the year 2000. And that will lead, to
cleaner, safer air.
There is another step that's needed -- and that is reauthorization of
the Clean Air Act. Frankly, I am disappointed that the Congress is now set
to adjourn without passing clean air legislation in this session. So let
me say today that, next January, if I am sworn in as your President, one of
my first priorities will be to win passage of clean air legislation, one
that will help not only with the solution to problems here in southern
California, but one that will provide for reductions in those substances
that contribute to acid rain. The time for action, on clean air and for
acid rain, is now.
Here in San Diego, on this beautiful coast, you have another special
concern, one that this Institution has taken a leadership role in
addressing, and that is the protection of the ocean.
I have to confess that I've spent more hours than perhaps a
hard-working man should enjoying the fruits of that ocean -- and if Izaak
Walton is correct that God does not deduct from time on earth time spent
fishing, I've got a long life still ahead of me.
But there are threats to that ocean, and one of my priorities as
President will be to address them. One is the dumping of barely treated
sewage and sludge from sewage plants into the ocean.
Here in California, we've made some progress. Our EPA has required Los
Angeles, for example, to stop dumping sludge in the ocean. And San Diego
is now close to agreement with EPA on a schedule to achieve secondary
treatment of its sewage.
On the East Coast, the problems that arise from neglect of the ocean
have been especially apparent this summer. Closed beaches. Medical waste
washing up on the shores. It should serve as a warning to all of us.
I'm for taking strong steps -- immediately -- to protect our oceans.
Many months ago, I called for the enactment of legislation which would ban
the practice of dumping sewage sludge in the ocean. I am happy to report
that the Congress has now taken-action on that legislation. It has passed
both houses and may be sent to the President shortly. I believe he should
sign it.
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But I believe we can do even more. We should work with the states to
track the disposal of medical wastes, in order to prevent them from washing
up on our beaches. And when someone is caught dumping such wastes
illegally, we should throw the book at them.
I favor beefing up the Coast Guard, and, if need be, calling in the
FBI, to help track down and crack down on those who dump illegally.
Let me say a word about my position on offshore drilling. I do believe
that development of our most promising oil and gas reserves is called for,
because continued domestic production of oil and gas is essential to the
national security of the United States.
At the same time, I oppose drilling in those environmentally sensitive
areas where the risk of damage is too great. I have said that I would
delay any drilling under Lease Sale 91 in northern California pending
resolution of these environmental concerns.
And let me add today that we should take a very close look at those
environmentally sensitive areas which would be available for development
under Lease Sale 95 here in southern California before proceeding with that
sale. Senator Pete Wilson has proposed protecting Santa Monica Bay and the
near shore ocean from Newport Beach to San Diego, and I agree that we must
subject these areas to the most careful study before allowing any drilling.
I will not allow California's golden shores, its most precious treasure, to
be put at risk.
Another treasure not only for Californians but for all Americans is our
national park system. I am a strong supporter of protecting our parks --
they are America's pride and joy. Ever since the first Republican
President, Abraham Lincoln, granted Yosemite Valley to the state of
California as a preserve back in 1864, the idea of setting aside land for
national parks has been one of America's best. It is a concept that has
been respected, honored, and imitated around the world.
The overwhelming success of our parks has sometimes taxed our ability
to protect them, but we have tried. After adjusting for inflation, our
Administration has increased the budget for the operation and maintenance
of our parks by almost 30 percent. We've asked visitors to chip in their
fair share, and the expanded fee program we've enacted will add some 500
million dollars to the budget for maintaining our parks over the next ten
years. And volunteers have chipped in as well -- last year alone, some
42,000 Americans came forward to help us manage our parks better.
But more can be done, and I'd like to be known as a President who
strengthened our park system and passed it on to the next generation of
Americans in better shape -than we found it.
I followed closely the work of the President's Commission on Americans
Outdoors, and I support many of the recommendations it produced. I believe
we should create "greenways," using such areas as abandoned railroad
corridors, to connect parks in different parts of the country. I believe
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we should continue the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which funds the
acquisition of new parklands and wildlife refuges. I think we can
reconstitute it as a National Endowment of the Environment, and, using a
portion of our non-renewable oil and gas revenues, allow it to continue to
give Americans the chance to enjoy our land and water resources.
There was one recommendation of the Commission which I believe was
especially important -- and that was to pay greater attention to urban
parks. Parks are for people, and we should take the greatest care to
enhance and protect those parks which are near enough for people to enjoy.
I know that Congress has authorized further acquisitions in the Santa
Monica Mountains Recreation Area, and I would like to announce today that,
as President, I would pursue such acquisitions. Parks near our urban
centers should be our highest priority, and this park would be one of mine.
Just last week, I talked about another idea I have for this country
that can help with brushing up our parks. It's called YES -- Youth
Entering Service to America. I'd like to see legions of our young people
volunteer to keep our parks in shape -- the way many already do here in
California.
You know, last summer, we took my oldest grandson to Grand Teton
National Park. We hiked, fished, rafted, and watched wildlife. It was a
marvelous experience for all of us, but especially for Barbara and me. We
watched the gleam in George P.'s eye as he saw those rugged and sparkling
mountains for the first time.
I'm sure that many of you have had similar experiences with your own
kids -- in Yosemite, or King's Canyon, or elsewhere.
I knew then that this is one legacy which we must preserve for
generations to come. So I have resolved that if I am elected President, I
will undertake a program to strengthen and preserve our parks. I'll call
it America the Beautiful, because that's exactly what this great country of
ours is -- beautiful beyond all comprehension.
Perhaps Irving Berlin said it best in his magnificent song, "God Bless
America." Remember the words? "From the mountains, to the prairies, to
the oceans white with foam.
He pictured pristine and majestic mountains, clear air and a clean
ocean. That's the America I want God to bless, too. And that's the
America I'm committed to fighting for as your President.
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NEW JERSEY RALLY
Belmar Beach, New Jersey
September 2, 1988
New Jersey is a proud state; and with very good reason. What you have
achieved here has been the envy of the nation: a half a million new jobs,
a growing economy, a new recognition as a national economic power.
New Jersey has attracted national attention for its economic success;
and this fall, the eyes of the nation will be upon you for another reason.
This state -- the Garden State -- will be a key battleground in determining
the future direction of America.
I came here this weekend to let you know how important you are. I came
here because I intend to run hard in New Jersey. I intend to fight hard.
And, with your help, I intend to win.
Labor Day weekend is upon us -- from here on in, the campaign gets
serious.
Labor Day also recalls something else. The end of summer. Time to
look back on the season just passed; time to get ready for the challenges
ahead.
This summer, America's rising spirit has been tried by one issue above
all others: and that is the condition of our environment. In the blur of
headlines about dirty air and closed beaches, there may be one silver
lining: an increased awareness that the time for action to clean up the
environment is now.
The fact is that this summer, like last, was not kind to the shore.
This very beach was closed twice due to medical waste washing up. And
medical waste was found again just yesterday not far from here.
I'm an environmentalist; always have been and always will be. So at
the outset of this campaign, I believe it's important to state clearly how
I would lead this country to a cleaner environment.
That's what I've been doing in these last few days. I've traveled from
the Michigan shores of Lake Erie once pronounced dead and now coming
back as a thriving fishery -- to a boat in Boston Harbor -- now called "the
dirtiest harbor in America."
One thing is clear: we cannot ignore the problems of our environment.
They call for action. They call for leadership. Because nobody fools
nature over the long run.
So let me tell you, briefly, what I'm for:
I'm for taking action to curb the damage done by acid rain. The time
for study alone is over -- so I favor a program of specific emissions
reductions on a specific time table.
A HEALTHY AMERICA
I'm for an aggressive, no-nonsense approach to cleaning up toxic waste
dumps. I'm for strengthening enforcement against dumpers, quickening the
pace of our cleanups, and streamlining the bureaucracy that sometimes slows
them down.
You're looking at a President who would make the enforcement of
Superfund, the prosecution of polluters, and the cleanup of toxic waste a
top priority.
I would make the United States the world leader in tackling
environmental problems. Problems like acid rain and global warming know no
boundaries. So I'm for convening a global conference on the environment,
at the White House, to bring all nations together to work for solution.
I'm for working to preserve the capacity of our wetlands, because they
are too valuable to let disappear.
I'm for an America in which all of us treat our air, water, and soil
with greater care -- in which a "conservative ethic" is broadly felt and
widely taught.
Most of all, I want today to tell you what actions I'm for to curb the
tragedy of ocean pollution -- because this problem is too vital to demand
anything less than a specific action plan.
America hasn't fought for freedom on beaches around the world, only to
have our own beaches conquered by waste.
So, first, I'm for a complete ban on the ocean dumping of sewage sludge
after 1991. Congressman Jim Saxton has been one of the leaders in pushing
for this and I congratulate him for his efforts.
Second, the Federal government should help establish an effective
system for tracking the disposal of medical waste. We can start with a
pilot program right here in the New York-New Jersey area, in cooperation
with the state plan that the Governors recently announced. But the point
is that if Federal action must be taken to track waste effectively --
Federal action should be taken.
One idea that has been suggested by several legislators, and by
candidates like Joe Azzolina, is to require manufacturers of certain
medical products to batch code their products to help in this tracking. I
think this idea is most interesting, and deserves a close look.
Third, I favor bringing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track
down those who dump medical waste illegally. We should use every tool at
our disposal to find and prosecute those who would foul our oceans outside
the law. The F.B.I. has the experts; it can help.
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N.Y. TIMES: 12-23-88
New Faces for 4 Cabinet Posts and the Top Environmental Job
William Kane Reilly
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
By PHILIP SHABECOFF
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 - With the
selection of William K. Reilly to be
Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, President-elect
Bush has found a man likely to seek
consensus and use negotiation to
aghieve tough environmental goals.
Mr. Reilly is a career environmen-
talist. He is president of the Conser-
vation Foundation and the World
Wildlife Fund, two leading conserva-
lion organizations.
Russell Train, Administrator of the
environmental. agency in the Ford
Administration and long a friend and
mentor to Mr. Reilly, said Mr. Reilly
totally committed to conservation
and protection of the environment. He
will bring long experience in the field
together with an understanding of the
need for balance in combining envi-
ronmental protection and develop-
ment goals.
The New York Times
Soft-Spoken But Articulate
William K. Reilly, who was nomi-
The agency he has been picked to
nated to head the Environmental
head administers and enforces a
Protection Agency.
variety of environmental statutes,
among them the Clean Air and Water
Acts and laws controlling pesticides
to issues, Mr. Reilly's appointment
and other toxic substances and haz-
was praised today by spokesmen for
ardous wastes.
business and industry.
Mr. Reilly, soft-spoken but articu-
'Focusing on Solutions'
late, is known as a pragmatic prob-
Jeffery C. Van, spokesman for the
lem solver and conciliator. He es-
Chemical Manufacturers Associa-
chews the confrontation that has
tion, said the Conservation Founda-
characterized much of the debate
tion had "a well-deserved reputation
over environmental issues and has
for focusing on solutions to environ-
sought instead to reach negotiated
mental problems not on polemics."
settlements favorable to the environ-
Many environmental leaders also
ment.
Under his leadership, the Conser-
cheered today's appointment.
vation Foundation has worked with
Frederic D. Krupp, executive direc-
tor of the Environmental Defense
Fund, called it a "bold appointment
by Bush" and said that the environ-
mental community now "has reason
He is known as a
to be very optimistic that this admin-
istration will take great strides to
pragmatic
solve these problems."
But some members of the environ-
problem-solver
mental community were less enthusi-
astic.
and conciliator.
"The challenge for Bill Reilly now
is to stop negotiating with polluters
and make them. obey the law," said
Daniel F. Becker, legislative director
of Environmental Action Foundation.
Government, industry and environ-
Other environmentalists said the
mental leaders to develop solutions to
appointment by Mr. Bush was a bril-
such problems as dealing with toxic
liant stroke because it would be hard
waste and protecting the nation's un-
for environmentalists to attack the
derground water supplies.
actions of one of their own.
He has been especially concerned
Degree in Urban Planning
with finding ways to link conserva-
William Kane Reilly was born on
tion to human needs in developing
Jan. 28, 1940, in Decatur, Ill. He has a
countries. As part of that program,
bachelor's degree from Yale Univer-
Mr. Reilly was traveling in Zambia
sity, a law degree from Harvard Law
last summer and traveled early one
School and a master's degree in
morning to a local village to meet
urban planning from Columbia Uni-
with the governor of a province.
versity.
As related by one of his companions
He was a captain in the United
on that trip, Mr. Reilly found the
States Army, a lawyer in Chicago, ex-
whole village assembled. He sat next
ecutive director of the Rockefeller
to the governor through a series of
Task Force on Land Use and a senior
speeches by local officials and
staff member of the President's
dances. Then the governor leaned
Council on Environmental Quality be-
over and said to Mr. Reilly: "I sup-
fore becoming head of the Conserva-
pose you are wondering why all these
tion Foundation.
people were here. Well, they were ex-
In his rare spare time, he likes to
pecting the President of Zambia." He
then handed Mr. Reilly the micro-
relax at his old country house in rural
phone and said, "You'll have to fill
Virginia and to sing Mozart duets
in.
with his wife Elizabeth, a gifted sing-
er. They have two daughters:
Mr. Reilly simply got up and made
He is regarded by colleagues as one
his speech about the conservation
of the more intellectual members of
program without batting an eye, his
the environmental community.
companion recalled.
"Bill Reilly is a world class envi-
Largely because of his nonconfron-
ronmental leader," said Jay D. Hair,
president of the National Wildlife
tational style and balanced approach
Federation.
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Professional Environmentalist Known as 'the Great Includer'
By Michael Weisskopf
a small environmental policy think
the administration as threatening to
tal Defense Fund and president of
Washington Post Staff Writer
tank, and the U.S. affiliate of the
increase pollution.
the German Marshall Fund, noted
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a
A moderate Republican who is a
the obstacles Reilly may encounter
When Bill Reilly convened a fo-
sprawling, activist organization out
protege of former EPA administra-
with a tight-fisted, antiregulatory
rum in July 1987 on the national
to save the natural resources of de-
tor Russell E. Train, Reilly will
president. But, unlike past adminis-
wetlands crisis, he filled a room
veloping nations.
work for a president who calls him-
trators willing to bend to political
with 25 people who normally would
He is responsible not only for bro-
self an environmentalist but antag-
constaints, Reilly "has the word 'quit'
have difficulty agreeing on a place
kering the wetlands study but the
onized environmental professionals
in his vocabulary," Loy said.
for dinner. There were environ-
innovative "debt-for-nature swap" in
as vice president.
Reilly served as a senior staff
mentalists, developers and indus-
which the WWF arranges with U.S.
Reilly will enter the post at a
member of the President's Council
trialists who were squaring off
banks to assume the debt of Third
time of intensified environmental
on Environmental Quality and exec-
against each other in various courts
World nations in return for protec-
problems, dramatized by the past
utive director of a land use task force
at the time. And there were state
tion of endangered resources.
and federal regulators who were
summer's heat wave, beach pollu-
before becoming president of the
Although this ken for consensus
tion and smog. It is too early to tell
Conservation Foundation in 1973.
being sued by all sides.
was reflected in the enthusiastic
Sixteen months later, the war-
how his prescriptions for the envi-
A native of Decatur, III., Reilly
support of his selection yesterday
ring parties had put aside their dif-
ronment will sit with Bush, who is
graduated from Yale University and
by the industrial as well as the en-
known to dislike tough regulation of
Harvard Law School and received a
ferences and called collectively for
vironmental community, some en-
"no net loss" of wetlands, plus 100
industry.
masters of science in urban plan-
vironmental activists questioned
other reforms that went much far-
Loy, chairman of the Environmen-
ning from Columbia University.
whether Reilly is too accustomed to
ther in addressing the controversial
compromising with polluters to ef-
issue than anyone had expected.
fectively wield regulatory controls.
The one exception: William K.
"It will be a challenge for Reilly
Reilly, who was selected yesterday
to stop accommodating polluters
by President-elect George Bush to
and get tough with them," said Dan
head the Environmental Protection
Becker of Environmental Action.
Agency. Reilly, 48, trained as a law-
Reilly, if confirmed by the Sen-
yer and land planner, has made a
ate, will be the first professional
career of building bridges. A skilled
environmentalist to head the EPA.
craftsman of consensus-fellow
He would take over an agency
environmentalist Frank Loy calls
rocked by political scandal in the
him "the great includer"-Reilly
early years of the Reagan admin-
knows how to find the common
istration and withered by White
ground and how to persuade un-
House disinterest throughout the
common interests to meet there.
past eight years. His Conservation
Reilly displayed his diplomatic
Foundation broke with its nonpo-
skills in merging two very different
litical tradition in 1982 to criticize
groups of which he is now presi-
dent, the Conservation Foundation,
(Judge/cw)
February 3, 1989
2:30 p.m.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SWEARING IN OF WILLIAM K. REILLY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1989
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I am told that this is a morning [afternoon] of firsts. The
Dianden
Justine
first time a president has visited this building
which, may I
Bates
say, is a first that is long overdue And the first time that
a
a man coming directly from the an
veteran of the environmental movement has been sworn in as
group
director of this agency
the new Environmental Protection
Administrator, William Reilly.
I hope it's plain to everyone in this room and around the
country what I'm saying with these two firsts -- and that is that
among the first items on my personal agenda as president is the
protection of America's environment.
I'm sure all of you know by now Bill Reilly's incredible
background in environmental protection
president of the
Conservation Foundation, one of the nation's outstanding
who's
environmental think tanks
president of the U.S. Affiliate of
who
the World Wildlife Federation. Fund He began his career in this field
as a senior staff member of the President's Council on
Environmental Quality in the early 70s and then as executive
director of the federal Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth.
A leader in one of the other major environmental organizations
has said of Bill that he has, I'm quoting now, "without
National
question the most personal knowledge of the substance of
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issues of any of the C.E.O.s" of any of the conservation
P.
organizations. That gives you an idea of why I picked Bill.
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wash.
more about why I picked him. About a year and a half ago, Bill
Post
convened a forum on the wetlands crisis. He brought together 25
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people who, as the Washington Post put it, "normally would have
difficulty agreeing [even] on a place for dinner."
Environmentalists, developers, industrialists, state and
federal regulators -- all were there. And the result? By the
time Bill was through with them, which took more than a year,
they'd put aside differences and called for no net loss of
wetlands, and they'd agreed on 100 reforms to achieve that goal.
speech I spoke the other day about wanting to broaden the consensus
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for defense. But that's not the only consensus I would like to
broaden. I want to broaden the consensus for a clean
environment, and I believe doing that requires finding ways to
clean up the environment without stifling the economy.
leadership
During the campaign I noted that
"
environmental action
the
has too often been marked by confrontation among competing
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interests
[while] the fact is that more often than not, there
is common ground if the parties will make an effort to find it."
Our great common desire is a better life for all Americans
-- and I believe that economic growth and a clean environment are
both part of what all Americans understand a better life to mean.
I also believe the American people are impatient for
results. They won't accept excuses. They won't accept finger
pointing. They want us to get all the sides together and find a
way to achieve both their goals.
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By the way, the other day I got a little lesson in just how
impatient the American people are. In the morning mail I found
letters from 7th graders at a church school in California. I
thought I'd share one with you, dated January 20th, the day I was
inaugurated. It said, and remember, this was on the day I was
just taking office, "Dear Mr. President, Would you please do
letter tion
something about pollution. I am not saying you're doing a bad
dated Church rom kutheran
job, but could you put a little more effort into it?"
Well, with Bill Reilly at the helm here, we're going to put
Forrance, & calif. a
lot more effort into it.
[And now I believe it's time to swear Bill in.]
A HEALTHY AMERICA
WASHINGTON BUSINESS LUNCHEON
Seattle, Washington
May 16, 1988
I think of Seattle as one of America's most environmentally conscious
cities -- perhaps because of the extraordinary beauty of your surroundings.
And so I want to talk to you today about the environment -- about how we
can better protect and enjoy the great gifts of nature that God has
bestowed upon us.
Let me say right at the outset that I don't think we've been doing
enough to protect our environment in recent years. We need to do more.
The condition of our land and water and air affects the health and quality
of life of each and every one of us.
We have been blessed in this country with a bountiful land. Fertile
soils, abundant water, great forests, productive fisheries, teeming
wildlife, rich mineral resources -- these have been our heritage.
Ours is also a land of incomparable natural beauty of vast open
spaces and magnificent mountains, of majestic rivers and shining lakes, of
rolling plains and splendid sea coasts. These, too, are part of our
heritage and have helped shape and inspire the American spirit.
We hold this natural bounty in trust for future generations of
Americans. It is not ours to squander and despoil, but ours to use and
manage wisely -- not only for our own benefit, but for the benefit of our
children and our children's children.
For this reason, the protection of the environment and the conservation
and wise management of our natural resources -- this whole notion of
stewardship must have a high priority on our national agenda.
I love to hunt and fish, and I've been lucky enough to experience much
of America's great outdoors. Just yesterday, I went fishing on the Rogue
River in southern Oregon. Four hours under a cloudless sky, running the
white water and drifting in the still blue pools, flickering my lure for
steelhead and salmon while the ospreys and herons wheeled overhead.
All of us have moments and places that have a special hold on our
memories and our hearts. For me, one such moment came last summer, seeing
the magnificence of the Grand Tetons through the eyes of our 10-year-old
grandson. And always, I cherish my time each summer chasing bluefish in
the choppy blue waters off the rocky coast of Maine.
In the same way, somehow, pollution is uniquely personal -- for when we
think about pollution, we think first of man's insults to the places we
love: plastic 6-pack rings floating in the ocean, trash washing up on the
shore.
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We still have much to do.
I am proud of the leadership shown by Republicans on protecting the
environment. It was a Republican President, Teddy Roosevelt, who declared
80 years ago that nothing short of defending this country in wartime
compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land
even a better land for our descendants than it is for us."
And it was under President Nixon 20 years ago that we moved forward
with landmark legislation on clean air and water and created the EPA.
We have made great progress in protecting our environment. Make no
mistake about it. We have made very real headway in cleaning up our air
and water. And we have done this at the same time that our population has
grown and our economy expanded. It has been an effort that all Americans
can take pride in.
The United States also has long been the world leader in the
establishment of national and state parks, the protection of wilderness
areas, the conservation of wildlife, and the creation of a system of
national forests and other landmarks -- preserving reminders of the
wildness that once was America.
Likewise, we have done much to conserve our cultural and historic
heritage, the historic structures and sites that are the visible symbols of
our American past.
In this, as in so many other areas of our life, it has been not only
government that has made the difference, but the voluntary efforts of
private organizations and dedicated individuals in every part of the
country.
There are some in the environmental movement who paint a picture of
ecological disaster, who say our situation is all but hopeless.
Well, we've proved that isn't so. We've proved that once the American
people put their minds to it, these problems can be solved. The solutions
are not always easy or cheap. These are typically complex problems, the
product of our complex, thriving, technological society.
But given sound research, innovative technology, hard work, sufficient
public and private funds, and -- most important of all -- the necessary
political will, we can achieve and maintain an environment that protects
the public health and enhances the quality of life for us all.
I stress the word all because no one pays a higher price for a degraded
environment than the poor of our central cities. It is there that air
pollution exacts its greatest toll on health and lead contamination is at
its worst. It is there that the lack of open space and decent outdoor
recreation opportunities blight the lives of old and young alike.
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We all have a stake in a healthy environment. We all want an EPA that
is committed unequivocally to environmental protection. We want
environmental protection. We want environmental regulation based on good
research and sound data, developed with a clear eye and an open mind, and
vigorously and uniformly enforced. And under my leadership, that's what
we'll have.
A new administration is a time for change, a time for renewal. I will
put the very best people we can find to work on our environmental agenda.
I believe that most corporations want to be good environmental
citizens, that they see the need for sustainable development. It is in the
economic self-interest of industry to avoid polluting by recycling wastes,
by minimizing wastes at the source, or by changing to a non-polluting
process, just as it is in the economic self-interest of farmers to avoid
excessive use of chemicals that can contaminate both surface and ground
eaters.
In my view, environmental action has too often been marked by
confrontation among competing interests. The fact is that more often than
not, there is a common ground if the parties will make an effort to find
it.
Over the long run a process of cooperation and consultation will
produce the most protection in the fastest time and in the most
cost-effective way.
Of the many major environmental issues facing us today, some have long
been with us, and some are just emerging. Some seem almost intractable.
Most are much more complex than they were a decade ago.
The challenge for industry is to identify and provide innovative
technological solutions. Breakthroughs that we can already identify --
such as biodegradable plastics made form corn -- and others that we can
only guess at -- for example, in biotechnology -- hold great promise for
cleaning up the environment.
The challenge for government is to encourage, not stifle, these new
approaches to our problems, and to work just as hard at anticipating and
preventing problems as we do in reacting to them.
A Bush administration will enforce environmental laws aggressively,
putting the responsibility for cleanup where it belongs -- on those who
caused the problems in the first place -- but we will also understand that
micromanagement from Washington leads only to paralysis.
Let me highlight now a few critical problems that are part of our
unfulfilled agenda:
There is hardly a community in the land that is not afflicted with the
problem of toxic waste. We have put major funding into the Superfund
program, yet it is seriously lagging. Any further delay where there is a
threat to public health is simply intolerable. We must speed up the
cleanup of toxic waste dumps.
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There is a need to push harder on enforcement. There is a need to
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streamline and accelerate the process, to promote voluntary settlement
procedures, and to reduce the regulatory barriers to new and innovative
cleanup technologies.
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Unfortunately, some of the worst offenders are our own federal
facilities. As President, I will insist that in the future federal
agencies meet or exceed environmental standards: The government should live
within the laws it imposes on others.
The problem we have created is so large and so hugely expensive that we
cannot expect to correct it overnight, but attack it we will, as rapidly as
we can.
Closely related to the problem of toxic waste is the growing threat of
contamination of our nation's groundwater. More than half of the American
people depend on this source for their drinking water.
The safety of our groundwater is threatened by cancer-causing chemicals
from toxic waste dumps, industrial wastes, agricultural runoff, and septic
systems. Once groundwater is contaminated, the damage can be almost
irreversible. We must give a high priority to groundwater protection, with
federal leadership and state implementation. We must take action now.
Clean air has been on our environmental agenda for decades. We have
made good progress in reducing emissions from cars, factories, and power
plants. We have the toughest automobile emission standards in the world.
But nearly 80 metropolitan areas are flunking federal clean air standards.
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As our regulatory objectives grow more stringent, regulation becomes
more costly and disruptive. We should also look to the marketplace for
innovative solutions.
For example, repeal of the Fuel Use Act has resulted in greater use of
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clean natural gas, reducing both sulfur and nitrogen oxide emissions.
Similarly, approval of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement will bring more
natural gas on the market.
The use of oxygenated fuels, such as ethanol and methanol, holds the
promise of significantly reducing smog and acid rain caused by automobile
emissions. As head of the President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief,
I've fought to reduce regulatory barriers to these fuels.
This is an important but little-recognized initiative. Here in
Seattle, you are showing the way with 10 methanol-powered buses on the
road. In the Denver area, drivers are required to use oxygenated fuels in
gasoline blends during winter months.
With regard to acid rain, we can no longer afford to simply study the
problem -- we must begin to take effective action. There must be a
national commitment to continue to reduce emissions of sulfur and nitrogen
oxides.
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A HEALTHY AMERICA
I support our $5 billion program to develop new clean-coal technology
and other pollution control incentives. We should pursue the initiatives
that have emerged from our dialogue with Canada, and if they do not produce
results, establish specific emission reduction goals that promise steady
progress toward cleaner air.
Like acid rain, many of our most serious environmental problems respect
no borders. Some can only be addressed effectively by worldwide
cooperative efforts and with an understanding of the international
political sphere.
For example, evidence is continuing to mount that the stratospheric
ozone layer -- essential to protecting all life from destructive
ultraviolet radiation from space -- is being dangerously depleted by the
emission of chlorofluorocarbons and other gases from man-made products.
I am proud to have a role in getting our administration to take the
lead in developing and promoting a multilateral agreement on this matter,
and I am pleased to see other nations beginning to ratify the Montreal
Protocols.
American companies have already begun to take action. I applaud the
decision of du Pont and Dow and other companies to withdraw CFCs from the
market in the near future.
Some of the most acute of the world's environmental problems occur in
the Third World, where growing human populations are increasingly out of
balance with their natural resource base.
These problems include the rapid spread of deserts, the extinction of
species, and massive soil erosion. The destruction of tropical rain
forests may contribute to climate changes that cause drought in other parts
of the world.
Other international challenges confront us as well -- pollution of the
oceans and global climate change -- the so-called "greenhouse effect."
We are all passengers together on a boat that we have damaged -- not
with the cataclysm of war, but with the slow neglect of a vessel we thought
was impervious to our abuse. In the last analysis, we all have a stake in
maintaining the ecological health of the planet. International
environmental cooperation will be one of my foreign policy priorities.
We must spread the word that economic development must be sustainable
development. Conservation, as Gifford Pinchot once said, provides "the
greatest good for the greatest number over the longest time.'
We can also join together on expeditions into space to look back at our
earth, discover what it is we are doing to ourselves, and to alter our
self-destructive course.
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A HEALTHY AMERICA
Such a "Mission to Planet Earth," as proposed by a NASA commission
headed by Sally Ride, would establish a global observational system in
space, aimed at developing a fundamental understanding of the earth's
system.
We must remember as we chase our dreams into the stars that out first
responsibility is to our Earth, to our children, to ourselves. Yes, let us
dream, and let us pursue those dreams, but let us first preserve the
fragile and precious world we inhabit.
Finally, let me say a word about the world we see and treasure
firsthand -- about our own outdoors. I have long sought creative new ways
of protecting our outdoors and recreational resources. As a congressman
from Texas, I sponsored legislation to create a 150,000-acre national park
in an ecologically critical area of east Texas.
More recently, I was a strong supporter of the Wallop-Breaux amendment,
which provides money from user fees on fishing equipment to manage and
enhance sport fishing opportunities -- perhaps the most important
legislation benefiting the 60 million sport fisherman in this country.
I support many of the recommendations made last year by the President's
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Commission on Americans Outdoors -- for example, the encouragement of
public-private partnerships for recreation: the creation of greenways and
the strengthening of urban parks, to provide open spaces close to where
wetlands. people live; the protection of rivers and streams and our fast-disappearing
The Commission also recommended the encouragement of an outdoor ethic
-- "a new appreciation of air, land, water, and all living things."
There is, after all, much that we can do ourselves, individually, to
benefit the environment: We can reduce our municipal solid waste problem
with a greater commitment to recycling. We can improve the outdoor
experience simply by picking up the trash we see and not leaving any of our
own behind.
Nature was once the great enemy of Man -- a ferocious and fearful
force, to be conquered, tamed, and harnessed to our needs. Now we find
that we must protect her from ourselves.
Walt Kelly was talking about polluters when he penned his famous words,
"We have met the enemy, and they is us."
Let us resolve today to find a truce with that enemy within. Let us
seek once again a world where our air and water are metaphors for purity
and not threats to our very lives. Let us join together to protect the
glorious but fragile beauties of America.
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Who's Who in America, 1988-1989
REILLY, WILLIAM KANE, lawyer, conservationist: b. Decatur. III., Jan.
26, 1940. B.A. in History, Yale U., 1962: J.D., Harvard U., 1965: M.S. in
Urban Planning, Columbia U., 1971. Bar: III., Mass. 1965. Atty. firm Ross
& Hardies. Chgo., 1965: asso. dir. Urban Policy Center, Urban Am., Inc.,
also Nat. Urban Coalition. Washington, 1969-70: sr. staff mem Pres.'s
Council Environ. Quality, 1970-72: exec dir Task Force Land Use and
Urban Growth, 1972-73; pres. Conservation Found., Washington, 1973
also dir. internat. comparative land use project, bus. and environ. project
Conservation Found.: pres. World Wildlife Fund. Washington. 1985-; dir.
Concern. Inc.: bd. dirs. Winrock Internat. Inst. Agr. Devel.. Clean Sites,
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SWEARING IN OF WILLIAM K. REILLY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1989
I am told that this is a morning [afternoon] of firsts. The
first time a president has visited this building
which, may I
say, is a first that is long overdue. And the first time that a
veteran of the environmental movement has been sworn in as
director of this agency
the new Environmental Protection
Administrator, William Reilly.
I hope it's plain to everyone in this room and around the
country what I'm saying with these two firsts -- and that is that
among the first items on my personal agenda as president is the
protection of America's environment.
I'm sure all of you know by now Bill Reilly's incredible
background in environmental protection
president of the
Conservation Foundation, one of the nation's outstanding
environmental think tanks
president of the U.S. Affiliate of
the World Wildlife Federation. He began his career in this field
as a senior staff member of the President's Council on
Environmental Quality in the early 70s and then as executive
director of the federal Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth.
A leader in one of the other major environmental organizations
has said of Bill that he has, I'm quoting now, "without
question
the most personal knowledge of the substance of
issues of any of the C.E.O.s" of any of the conservation
organizations. That gives you an idea of why I picked Bill.
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I thought I'd tell you a story that will tell you something
more about why I picked him. About a year and a half ago, Bill
convened a forum on the wetlands crisis. He brought together 25
people who, as the Washington Post put it, "normally would have
difficulty agreeing [even] on a place for dinner."
Environmentalists, developers, industrialists, state and
federal regulators -- all were there. And the result? By the
time Bill was through with them, which took more than a year,
they'd put aside differences and called for 'no net loss' of
wetlands, and they'd agreed on 100 reforms to achieve that goal.
I spoke the other day about wanting to broaden the consensus
for defense. But that's not the only consensus I would like to
broaden. I want to broaden the consensus for a clean
environment, and I believe doing that requires finding ways to
clean up the environment without stifling the economy.
During the campaign I noted that " environmental
action
has too often been marked by confrontation among competing
interests [while] the fact is that more often than not, there
is common ground if the parties will make an effort to find it."
Our great common desire is a better life for all Americans
-- and I believe that economic growth and a clean environment are
both part of what all Americans understand a better life to mean.
I also believe the American people are impatient for
results. They won't accept excuses. They won't accept finger
pointing. They want us to get all the sides together and find a
way to achieve both their goals.
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By the way, the other day I got a little lesson in just how
impatient the American people are. In the morning mail I found
letters from 7th graders at a church school in California. I
thought I'd share one with you, dated January 20th, the day I was
inaugurated. It said, and remember, this was on the day I was
just taking office, "Dear Mr. President, Would you please do
something about pollution. I am not saying you're doing a bad
job, but could you put a little more effort into it?"
Well, with Bill Reilly at the helm here, we're going to put
a lot more effort into it.
[And now I believe it's time to swear Bill in.]
Statement of
President-Elect Bush
12/22/88
will serve him well as he works to get all the legs of our
transportation system - air, land and sea - working together.
And I mention this law-enforcement experience for a reason. He
also has in his portfolio a number of agencies that affect us-
everyone of us - in very important ways. And just to cite one
example, I expect that under Sam Skinner the Coast Guard will be
a continuing leader in the war against drugs and illegal dumping
that is a cause of this ocean pollution."
(New York Times,
12/23/88)
Secretary of Veteran Affairs
"The last Cabinet post for which I will announce a
nomination today is a new one - the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- and I believe we have a special responsibility to the brave men
and women who serve this, their country, in the armed forces.
And I believe that this department should be headed by someone
who understands their needs. And my good friend Ambassador Ed
Derwinski is a World War II veteran, has served in the Pacific
Theater with the Army. He's a member, as I am, of the American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars."
"He has a long record of support for veterans and for a
strong national defense in the Congress, where he served with
great distinction for 24 years as the Representative from
Illinois. And since he left the House, he's been a senior
official at the Department of State, serving first as counselor,
now as Under Secretary. And he brings to this new post a well-
earned reputation as an outstanding leader, a record of
cooperating in bipartisan fashion with members of Congress and a
deep understanding of the issues facing America's veterans. And
I know he's going to be one of the stars in our Cabinet and I'm
delighted my old friend and I will be working together once
again.
"
(New York Times, 12/23/88)
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
"Although the Environmental Protection Agency is not part of
the Cabinet, it is an agency whose mission in my view is of
tremendous importance to America's future. I care a great deal
about the work of this agency. I believe it is appropriate to
announce at this early date that Bill Riley has agreed to serve
as the Administrator of the E.P.A."
"He's been the president of the Conservation Foundation for
15 years and since its merger with the World Wildlife Fund in
1985, of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S. as well. And as such, he
understands not only the overwhelming domestic imperative to take
steps to protect our environment but the need for the
international cooperation that I spoke about in the campaign. He
brings to this very important post not only this experience at
the top of one of the nation's pre-eminent conservation
organizations, but previous experience as the executive director
of the Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth and as a staff
member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. So
I'm proud to reach directly into the conservation community to
find someone to lead this agency. And I expect to be a very
active President in protecting the environment so I know that
Bill Riley and I will be working together very closely." (New
York Times, 12/23/88)
Secretary of Labor
"I have a piece of good news to deliver before the holiday,
and that is that Elizabeth Hanford Dole has agreed to be the Bush
administration Secretary of Labor."
"And the skills that will be required of the America's work
force will be increasingly great in the years ahead, and the work
force itself is in dramatic change, with women especially
continuing to enter the work force in ever larger numbers. And
in this environment, it is essential that we have a Secretary of
Labor who understands the challenges out there and who has the
experience, the stature and the ability to deal with them
effectively. And the point is that these changes are coming, and
there is no getting around it. And we need as the head of the
Labor Department someone who understands change and can help us
as a nation manage it well.
"I am absolutely certain that Elizabeth Dole will be such a
Secretary of Labor. She is a woman of talent, integrity, great
skill and, of course, tremendous experience. And as you know,
she served for five years as Secretary of Transportation and
prior to that she was Assistant to the President for Public
Liaison in the White House, and in that job had a lot of contacts
with the great labor leaders of this country, and prior to that
she served for six years as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade
Commission.
"
"
We talked about training and retraining our workers,
insuring that every worker has a safe and healthy workplace,
respecting the rights of workers and their representatives, and
we agree that there's much important work to be done.'
"And one mission that we both care a great deal about is the
creation of more private-public partnerships with greater private
involvement in meeting our nation's public needs."
"As America seeks to become more competitive and more
compassionate in the 90's, we will be well served by having Liddy
Dole at work in the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor, building the
kind of a future that enriches the lives of all Americans.' (New
York Times, 12/25/88)
A HEALTHY AMERICA
Fourth, I would strengthen the Coast Guard. I understand that a Coast
Guard station right here in Belmar had to be closed due to cut backs in the
Coast Guard. Well, I support increasing the ability of the Coast Guard to
patrol our waters, to find illegal dumpers, and to stop the flow of illegal
drugs into this country.
There are many other steps we are -- and should be -- taking. We are
requiring every city in America to have adequate sewage treatment or be on
a court-approved schedule for achieving such treatment.
We have launched a new National Estuary Program, which will include the
New York-New Jersey Harbor, to work out plans for curbing pollution in
these critical waterways.
The point is that I propose to act -- because a dirty ocean is simply
not something that any of us can stand for.
Ladies and gentlemen, America needs a President who will keep building
a strong and growing economy. A President who will give America a strong
national defense. A President who will fight crime and clean the
environment. And a President who will clean the ocean. And a President
who means what he says.
My friends, I am that man.
***
PROTECTING OUR AIR AND WATER
Clean air. Pure water. Unspoiled land. Open spaces. Abundant wildlife.
That's the greatest legacy we can give our children and grandchildren. The
condition of our land, water and air affects the health and quality of life
of each and every American.
George Bush believes we have to do more to protect and preserve our
environment.
A RECORD OF LEADERSHIP
The record shows George Bush can be trusted with our natural heritage:
He chaired a House Task Force on Earth Resources and
Population.
He voted for the Council on Environmental Quality, the
Water Quality Improvement Act, Clean Air Act Amendment
of 1970, and a reform of the Oil Pollution Act.
He fought to create the Big Thicket National Park in
Texas.
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A HEALTHY AMERICA
As Vice President, George Bush played a particularly
important role in creating the Wallop-Breaux Trust
Fund, securing the conservation provisions in the 1985
Farm Bill, amending EPA regulations to reduce lead in
the air, and deregulating natural gas -- a clean-
burning fuel.
The Republican Party has long championed the cause of the outdoors. Lincoln
took the first steps towards protecting Yosemite as parkland; U.S. Grant
created Yellowstone National Park; Teddy Roosevelt created most of our
National Forests, the first National Wildlife Refuge, and many more
national parks; and Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection
Agency, formed the first Council on Environmental Quality and pushed for
much of the modern environmental legislation, such as the Endangered
Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
We continued this tradition by negotiating the Montreal Protocols to
protect the ozone layer and the North American Waterfowl Plan to preserve
wetlands. We implemented the far-reaching conservation provisions of the
1985 Farm Bill and began protecting bio-diversity worldwide through foreign
aid programs.
George Bush will bring a "conservation ethic" to the Presidency aimed at
educating Americans about how they can help protect the environment. This
may mean changing some old -- and bad -- habits as Texas is doing with its
successful highway litter campaign: "Don't Mess With Texas." Each American
can help by being gentler on the environment.
He will fight to protect the environment by acting to reduce acid rain, by
stopping the contamination of our groundwater, and by conserving and
managing our precious wetlands. He will also hammer out an international
agreement to address the problem of global warming. This will be tough,
but George Bush has the experience to make it happen.
SUMMARY OF KEY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES
George Bush means business about cleaning up the environment. He will:
PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP
Appoint the best people to run the Environmental Protection Agency
-- men and women who will vigorously enforce the law protecting
our natural heritage. George Bush will listen to and include his
people on all important decisions -- their input is important to
foreign, economic and even defense policy.
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A HEALTHY AMERICA
Invite high level international leaders to a global conference to
develop an action plan to address the global environmental
problems like global warming, ozone depletion and acid rain. His
Administration will sit down with the Soviets, the Chinese and our
friends in Western Europe and in this hemisphere to hammer out a
strategy for solving this problem. We showed that this kind of
international environmental agreement is possible -- we made such
an agreement reducing the use of chlorofluorocarbons worldwide to
protect the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION
Support a program to cut millions of tons of sulfur dioxide
emissions by the year 2000, and to reduce significantly nitrogen
oxide emissions. He believes we must have a clear commitment to
emissions reductions, on a clear timetable. George Bush will work
with Congress on the exact amounts and the exact methodology. We
know enough now to begin taking steps to limit future damage; action
we take today -- even as scientific inquiry continues is
insurance against future disaster. The burden of achieving these
emissions reductions must be shared equitably; no one region or
group should be socked unfairly with the cost of addressing a
problem that affects all of us.
End ocean dumping by 1991. George Bush will make it safe to go to
the beach again.
Work with states to attain the goal of no net loss of wetlands.
Continue the Republican tradition of protecting and expanding our
National Park system. George Bush wants your grandchildren to be
able to enjoy these parks too. He will create a self-perpetuating
trust fund based on the Land and Water Conservation Fund called
the National Endowment for the Environment and will use these
funds to protect and build the park system.
Balance the protection of wildlife habitats on federal lands with
our national needs for the resources on those lands. Protecting
jobs and our national heritage both matter.
Make a national commitment to reduce waste by recycling and
developing technologies that produce less waste. The less waste we
produce, the less we must dispose of.
Prevent offshore drilling on certain tracts that are particularly
environmentally sensitive.
Provide leadership to encourage cooperation instead of conflict
between sportsmen, farmers, industrialists and environmentalists.
George Bush knows all have valid concerns. He will help bring
them together -- and lead America to a rational and balanced
environmental plan.
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L.A. TIMES: 12-23-88
Reilly: an Activist Who Seeks Consensus
By JOSH GETLIN, Times Staff Writer
91/22T@
WASHINGTON-William K.
his name forging a compromise
ment questions that will confront
Reilly is a staunch environmental-
between business leaders and envi-
him at EPA, such as the need for
ist. who has been able to forge
ronmentalists, and this will be very
stronger clean air regulations.
agreements with business leaders,
important for him at EPA.'
In that sense, "we still have to
an activist who has made a career
Business leaders were also
wait and see what kind of director
of seeking consensus instead of
pleased by the choice of Reilly, a
he will be," said Dick Ayres of the
confrontation, friends and col-
cultured, multilingual man with a
National Resources Defense Coun-
leagues say.
Harvard law degree and a planning
cil.
The man chosen by President-
degree from Columbia. Willard
Reilly, married and the father of
elect George Bush to head the
Chamberlain, a senior vice presi-
two daughters, has written and
Environmental Protection Agency
dent of Arco in Los Angeles, re-
lectured extensively on the need
is president of the World Wildlife
called that he recently worked
for environmental protection and
Fund and has been president of the
with Reilly on a task force on the
the need for growth, and he is
Conservation Foundation since
wetlands issue and found him to be
expected to bring a healthy respect
1973. The two groups joined in a
an even-keeled, Intelligent indi-
for both to his new post.
formal affiliation in 1985 and have
vidual.
Before leading the two environ-
more than 600,000 members.
"I was very impressed with his
mental groups, he was executive
Reilly, 48, has been active in a
balance, his skill at developing a
director of the Task Force on Land
host of issues, ranging from acid
consensus," Chamberlain said.
Use and Urban Growth, a biparti-
rain and wetlands protection to
"He's had a lifelong commitment to
san group, and he has played a
tropical rain forests and wildlife
preserving the environment, but
leading role in urging business
preservation. Yet he has advanced
he doesn't pursue a confrontational
leaders and conservationists to
these Interests in a low-key, be-
approach to resolving issues."
seek a middle ground on divisive
hind-the-scenes manner that dis-
binguishes him from other, more
Provoked Some Criticism
growth issues.
Most recently, he helped sponsor
hard-line conservation leaders.
Those qualities have provoked
the National Wetlands Policy Fo-
Spokesman for several environ-
some criticism, however. Ken
rum, a bipartisan group that has
mental groups hailed Reilly's ap-
Maize, a spokesman for the envi-
come up with more than 100 rec-
pointment Thursday, suggesting
ronmental organization Friends of
ommendations supported by busi-
that the choice of a conservation
the Earth, said that Reilly is "an
ness and conservation groups on
activist to head EPA is a "reassur-
OK appointment" but noted that
how to preserve these environ-
ing signal" that Bush is serious
some conservationists have been
mentally sensitive areas across the
about tackling environmental is-
disappointed by the "compromise"
nation.
sues, as he promised during the
approach adopted by his organiza-
He is no stranger to the Wash-
campaign.
tions.
ington scene, having served from
"It's a refreshing change, an
"He [Reilly] is not a brother; he's
1970 to 1972 as a member of the
indication that the whole baligame
a friend," Maize said. "We've had
President's Council on Environ-
will be different than it was under
some differences with him, but
mental Quality specializing in
the Reagan Administration," said
they are not fundamental. It's more
issues such as coastal zone man-
Fred Krupp, executive director of
of a stylistic thing."
agement and mineral leasing. Ear-
the Environmental Defense Fund.
Others cautioned that Reilly's
lier, he practiced law in Chicago
"Bill has been an environmental
background is more in conserva-
and served as a captain in the Army
leader for two decades. He made
tion issues than the tough enforce-
in 1966-67.
World Wildlife Fund
The Conservation Foundation
WILLIAM KANE REILLY
William K. Reilly became president of World Wildlife Fund-
U.S. in October 1985. At that time, World Wildlife Fund and The
Conservation Foundation, of which Mr. Reilly has been president
since 1973, joined in a formal affiliation. Mr. Reilly remains
president of the Foundation.
With programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, especially
in the tropical forests, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is the
preeminent private organization working to protect the diversity
of life on earth. WWF has supported some 1,350 projects in 103
countries to protect endangered wildlife and habitat. During Mr.
Reilly's three-year tenure, WWF's membership has grown from
175,000 to 600,000, its budget from $12 million to $30 million.
World Wildlife Fund is now the fastest growing conservation
organization in the United States.
During Mr. Reilly's 15-year presidency, The Conservation
Foundation has continued its long-standing interest in land,
including park and forest policy, as well as initiated new
programs in environmental dispute resolution, water toxic
substances control, urban conservation, and energy. Also during
his tenure, The Conservation Foundation prepared State of the
Environment 1982 and two years later State of the Environment:
An Assessment at Mid-Decade, the most comprehensive analyses of
environmental condition ever prepared by a private organization.
In 1976 Mr. Reilly began a program advocating direct cooperation
between business leaders and conservationists in solving
polarizing issues in resource end environmental policy. That
program has sponsored several major consensus-building policy
dialogues, including the National Groundwater Policy Forum
chaired by Governor Babbitt with David Roderick of USX Corp. and
Jay Hair of the National Wildlife Federation as vice chairs; and
the National Wetlands Policy Forum chaired by Governor Kean of
New Jersey with Governors Carrol Campbell of South Carolina and
Booth Gardner of Washington as vice chairs. Under Mr. Reilly's
leadership, The Conservation Foundation staff has become
interdisciplinary with scientists, lawyers, economists, political
scientists, urban planners, engineers, business experts, and
writers. The staff has doubled to fifty people and the yearly
operating budget has grown from $1 million to more than $5
million in 1988.
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Immediately prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Reilly was
executive director of the Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth
and a principal contributor to, and editor of, the Task Force
report, The Use of Land, which went through three printings. He
served from 1970 to 1972 as a senior staff member on the
President's Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive
Office of the President. Earlier he was Associate Director of
the Urban Policy Center, Urban America, Inc., a Captain in the
U.S. Army in Europe, and practiced law in Chicago.
Mr. Reilly has written numerous articles and has lectured
extensively on environmental and land use policy issues. He
serves as a member of the Board of Northeast Utilities, Partners
for Livable Places, the Winrock International Center for
Agricultural Development, the American Farmland Trust, and Clean
Sites, Inc. (Clean Sites, Inc., is a non-profit corporation
conceived and designed by The Conservation Foundation's Steering
Committee of leaders in the environmental community and chemical
company executives. It mediates among companies responsible for
cleaning up derelict hazardous waste sites, prepares cleanup
plans and carries out cleanup projects at the sites.) Mr. Reilly
also served as chairman of the Natural Resources Council of
America from 1981 to 1983. (NRCA is an association of all major
conservation groups.)
Mr. Reilly holds a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from
Harvard Law School, and an M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia
University. He speaks French and Spanish, and has a working
knowledge of German and Italian. He was born in Decatur,
Illinois, graduated from public high school in Fall River,
Massachusetts, and is accredited to practice law in Illinois and
Massachusetts. He is married to Elizabeth Bennett Buxton, a
native of North Haven, Connecticut. The Reilly's have two
daughters, Katherine, 18, a freshman at Yale, and Margaret, 13,
an 8th grader in George Washington Junior High School in
Alexandria. The Reillys have lived since 1969 in Alexandria,
Virginia.
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STATEMENT BY
WILLIAM K. REILLY
EPA ADMINISTRATOR-DESIGNATE
before the
COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS
THE UNITED STATES SENATE
January 31, 1989
MR. CHAIRMAN, DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE. IT IS MY
GREAT HONOR TO APPEAR BEFORE YOU TODAY AS THE PRESIDENT'S NOMINEE
FOR ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY.
WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT BUSH ASKED ME TO SERVE IN HIS
ADMINISTRATION, HE SPOKE OF HIS STRONG COMMITMENT TO
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, BUT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
I HAVE SPENT MY CAREER SEEKING BETTER WAYS FOR US TO MANAGE THIS
COUNTRY'S ABUNDANT NATURAL RESOURCES, ON WHICH OUR ECONOMIC
WELL BEING DEPENDS. I HAVE SOUGHT BETTER WAYS TO PROTECT THE
ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH FROM POLLUTION. IN THE PAST FEW
YEARS, AS PRESIDENT OF WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, I HAVE WORKED
INTERNATIONALLY TO PROTECT WILDLIFE AND TO AID DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES AS THEY STRUGGLE WITH MONUMENTALLY SERIOUS PROBLEMS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THEIR FORESTS.
MY EXPERIENCES HAVE LEFT ME WITH THE VERY STRONG SENSE THAT THE
STATE OF THE EARTH TODAY OFFERS GROUND BOTH FOR HOPE, AND FOR
DESPAIR, IN EQUAL MEASURE. WHILE NATURE IS SUFFERING UNDER
UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT ALL ACROSS THE PLANET, PUBLIC AWARENESS AND
CONCERN ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT HAS PROBABLY NEVER BEEN HIGHER,
PARTICULARLY IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE. THUS WE ARE AT A
HISTORIC MOMENT, CHARACTERIZED BY URGENCY AND OPPORTUNITY.
RARELY IF EVER BEFORE HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A NEED FOR LEADERSHIP
ON THE ENVIRONMENT. THE PRESIDENT SEES THE NEED TO MOVE NOW TO
MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT A PRIORITY OF INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC
POLICY.
IN ACCEPTING THE PRESIDENT'S INVITATION TO SERVE, I TOLD HIM I
WANTED TO HELP HIM BE A GREAT ENVIRONMENTAL PRESIDENT. IF I AM
CONFIRMED, I PLEDGE TO YOU AND THIS COMMITTEE, TO THE CONGRESS,
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AND TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT I WILL DO ALL WITHIN MY POWER TO
FULFILL MY RESPONSIBILITIES TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN
HEALTH.
AFTER MEETING WITH MANY OF THIS COMMITTEE'S MEMBERS INDIVIDUALLY,
I KNOW THAT YOU, TOO, LIKE PRESIDENT BUSH, HAVE HIGH
EXPECTATIONS. YOU WANT STEADY, TANGIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS
AS THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THE SAME THING. CLEARLY, THE
ENVIRONMENTAL DRAMA OF LAST SUMMER TAPPED DEEP-SEATED CONCERNS
HELD BY MANY, IF NOT MOST, AMERICANS -- HIGHLY EMOTIONAL
CONCERNS ABOUT POLLUTION RUN AMOK, AND ABOUT DRASTIC CHANGES IN
THE ECOSYSTEM OF THIS EARTH THAT SUSTAINS US ALL.
LAST SUMMER, A RECORD DROUGHT SCORCHED MUCH OF OUR COUNTRY, AND
AFTER A DECADE AWASH IN SURPLUS CROPS, EXPERTS WERE SPECULATING
AGAIN ABOUT POSSIBLE FOOD SHORTAGES. DISTURBING NEW EVIDENCE
EMERGED OF HUMAN-INDUCED CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL CLIMATE, THE
CONSEQUENCES OF WHICH WE ARE ONLY BEGINNING TO FATHOM. BEACHES
WERE FOULED BY MEDICAL WASTES. AN AWESOME, UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE
INCINERATED THOUSANDS OF ACRES IN YELLOWSTONE PARK, A REMNANT OF
WILDERNESS MANY AMERICANS HAD CONSIDERED PERMANENTLY PRISTINE AND
UNTHREATENED. FROM BRAZIL CAME NEWS OF FIRES EVEN MORE
DEVASTATING, FIRES DESTROYING MILLIONS OF ACRES OF AMAZON
RAINFOREST. TO STEP FROM THAT REMARKABLE, WONDROUS,
BIOLOGICALLY RICH WORLD ONTO A BLACKENED LANDSCAPE, I ASSURE YOU,
IS TO GLIMPSE A PLAUSIBLE VISION OF THE APOCALYPSE.
AND AFTER ALL THIS, WHEN TIME MAGAZINE NAMED EARTH THE "PLANET OF
THE YEAR" FOR 1988, ALMOST EVERYONE EXPRESSED SURPRISE --
EVERYONE BUT COMEDIAN JAY LENO, WHO SIMPLY NOTED THAT ALL THE
JUDGES CAME FROM EARTH. HE HAD A POINT. so FAR AS WE KNOW, THEY
COULD HAVE COME FROM NOWHERE ELSE BUT THIS BRIGHT BLUE ORB,
FLOATING IN SPACE, WHOSE IMAGE WE SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME ONLY
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
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IN THE TWO DECADES SINCE THEN, IT MUST BE SAID THAT THE UNITED
STATES HAS MADE GREAT PROGRESS IN DEALING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL
PROBLEMS. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE REGULATORY
FRAMEWORK FOR POLLUTION CONTROL IN THE WORLD. ENORMOUS
INVESTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE PUBLIC, BY INDUSTRY, BY
GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS. AND THESE INVESTMENTS HAVE PAID OFF
HANDSOMELY. WE HAVE MADE PROGRESS REDUCING MANY POLLUTANTS --
SULFUR DIOXIDES, NITROGEN OXIDES, PARTICULATES, AND LEAD, TO NAME
A FEW -- DURING A PERIOD IN WHICH OUR ECONOMY HAS GROWN
SIGNIFICANTLY. THIS IS AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY, AND WE SHOULD
TAKE PRIDE IN IT. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CLEAN AIR AND WATER HAS
NEVER BEEN HIGHER.
YET THE DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA SEEMS ONLY TO HAVE
LENGTHENED AND GROWN MORE COMPLEX WITH TIME. IT TURNS OUT THAT
WE DIDN'T KNOW ALL THAT WAS BEING PUT INTO THE AIR AND WATER.
NEW, MORE SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND MORE EXTENSIVE
MONITORING HAVE REVEALED TOXIC SUBSTANCES OF GREAT VARIETY,
DISTRIBUTED WIDELY IN AIR, WATER, LAND, AND WILDLIFE. IN SOME
PLACES "SANITARY LANDFILLS" OF A DECADE AGO HAVE BECOME TODAY'S
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS. AIR POLLUTION INDOORS APPEARS TO BE
THREATENING MANY AMERICANS MORE THAN AIR POLLUTION OUTDOORS.
ABANDONED TOXIC WASTE DUMPS DOT THE LANDSCAPE. POLLUTANTS OF ALL
SORTS HAVE SEEPED INTO THE VAST, UNSEEN RESERVES OF GROUNDWATER
FROM WHICH MILLIONS OF AMERICANS DRAW THEIR DRINKING WATER.
IF ANYTHING, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS BECOMING MORE SENSITIZED,
MORE AWARE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND HEALTH RISKS. WE'VE
LEARNED THE HARD WAY THAT IT COSTS MUCH MORE TO CLEAN UP
POLLUTION THAN TO PREVENT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. IN THE WORDS OF
PROJECT BLUEPRINT, THE REPORT OF A NUMBER OF ENVIRONMENTAL
GROUPS, ONE FUNCTION OF NEW LEADERSHIP AT EPA MUST BE TO HELP THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ACHIEVE AN EVEN BETTER "UNDERSTANDING OF THE
EXTENT AND SERIOUSNESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES. "
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AT THE SAME TIME, A NEW INTERNATIONAL AGENDA IS COMING SHARPLY
INTO FOCUS. ACID RAIN, OZONE DEPLETION, GLOBAL WARMING,
DESTRUCTION OF SPECIES-RICH TROPICAL RAINFORESTS, OCEAN
POLLUTION FROM NUMEROUS SOURCES -- THESE DAUNTING PROBLEMS
REQUIRE AN UNPRECEDENTED DEGREE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, FOR
WE IN THE UNITED STATES ARE HOSTAGE TO DECISIONS MADE BY OTHER
COUNTRIES JUST AS THEY ARE HOSTAGE TO OURS. YET THE COMMUNITY OF
NATIONS IS ONLY BEGINNING TO CONSTRUCT THE LEGAL AND
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ADDRESSING THESE PROBLEMS.
HISTORICALLY THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN A LEADER IN THE EFFORT TO
PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT, AND EPA
WILL HAVE TO CROSS THE BORDERS MORE AND MORE IF WE ARE TO DO AN
EFFECTIVE JOB. AS THE WORLD ENTERS A TIME OF UNPRECEDENTED
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES AND DEMANDS, THE UNITED STATES MUST BE
AT THE FOREFRONT, SHARING OUR RESEARCH AND OUR SCIENCE, OUR
TECHNOLOGY AND OUR EXPERIENCE, OUR SUCCESSES AND OUR FAILURES. A
GREAT DEAL REMAINS TO BE DONE, AND, AS PRESIDENT BUSH HAS
REQUESTED, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WILL BE A PRIORITY
OF MINE IF I AM CONFIRMED.
IN APPROACHING THESE CHALLENGES AND OTHERS, I WILL ENDEAVOR TO
SET AND UPHOLD THE HIGHEST STANDARDS FOR CONDUCTING THE BUSINESS
OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.
THE FIRST OF THESE STANDARDS IS RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW. I
WANT TO STRESS BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE THAT I UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT
AS MY DUTY, FIRST AND FOREMOST, TO IMPLEMENT THE ENVIRONMENTAL
LAWS OF THIS LAND AS CONGRESS HAS WRITTEN THEM. THE CONSTITUTION
AND OUR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS GUARANTEE RIGHTS TO ALL OUR CITIZENS,
INCLUDING THOSE WHOSE ACTIVITIES ARE SUBJECT TO REGULATION. so
OUR ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS MUST RESPECT DUE PROCESS AND THE RIGHTS
OF PROPERTY. AND ENFORCEMENT MUST BE INSPIRED BY A SENSE OF
VIGOR AND URGENCY, FOR THE AIM OF THE ENTERPRISE IS NO LESS THAN
THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN HEALTH, OF LIVES, AND OF THE NATURAL
ORDER THAT SUSTAINS CIVILIZATION. so I PLEDGE TO TAKE
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AGGRESSIVE AND TIMELY ENFORCEMENT ACTION WHENEVER IT IS WARRANTED
TO SAFEGUARD PUBLIC HEALTH OR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
I DO LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSIONS WITH MEMBERS OF THIS AND OTHER
COMMITTEES IN CONGRESS ABOUT HOW WE MAY BE ABLE TO STRENGTHEN OUR
POLLUTION CONTROL EFFORTS -- BASED ON ADVANCES IN SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH POLLUTION CONTROL AND
REGULATION. HOW CAN WE BETTER EXPLOIT THE SEEMINGLY GREAT
POTENTIAL OF WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING? HOW CAN WE HARNESS
MARKET FORCES AND THE INVENTIVE GENIUS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY TO
THE TASK OF ABATING POLLUTION? HOW CAN WE BEST PROTECT OUR
WETLANDS AND GROUNDWATER AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES ON WHICH WE
DEPEND? AS YOU MAY KNOW, THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION EXPLORED
SUCH QUESTIONS IN SOME DETAIL DURING MY TENURE, AND I LOOK
FORWARD TO OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPLORE POSSIBLE ANSWERS WITH YOU.
MY DECISIONS AS ADMINISTRATOR AND THOSE OF OTHERS IN THE AGENCY
WILL BE GUIDED BY THE MOST RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION WE CAN
BRING TO BEAR.
FINALLY, AS MR. RUCKELSHAUS TOLD THIS COMMITTEE IN 1983, ENDING
THE GREATEST CRISIS IN EPA'S HISTORY, WHAT EPA DOES WILL BE DONE
IN A FISHBOWL. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DEMANDS, AND DESERVES, FULL
ACCESS TO EPA'S DECISIONMAKING; IF CONFIRMED, I EXPECT TO ENGAGE
THE PUBLIC IN EVERY ASPECT OF THE AGENCY'S WORK.
IF CONFIRMED, I WILL INHERIT A DEDICATED, KNOWLEDGEABLE,
THOROUGHLY PROFESSIONAL STAFF AT EPA. I HOLD THEM IN HIGH REGARD
AND HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE THAT, WITH THE SUPPORT AND
ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATOR AND THE CONGRESS, THEY CAN
HELP THIS NATION AND THE WORLD TO ACHIEVE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS
HEALTHY AND NATURAL SYSTEMS THAT REMAIN PRODUCTIVE.
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, PRESIDENT BUSH OBSERVED THAT "ENVIRONMENTAL
ACTION HAS TOO OFTEN BEEN MARKED BY BITTER AND OFTEN NON-
PRODUCTIVE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN COMPETING INTERESTS." I HARBOR
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NO DELUSION THAT THIS COMPETITION WILL CEASE. YET WE NO LONGER
HAVE THE TIME OR LUXURY OF ALLOWING THE BITTERNESS, THE
POLARIZATION, THE WASTED RESOURCES, AND THE OTHER EXCESSES OF
THAT COMPETITION TO STAY OUR PROGRESS.
I FIRMLY BELIEVE WE MUST USHER IN A NEW ERA IN THE HISTORY OF
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- AN ERA MARKED MORE BY RECONCILIATION OF
INTERESTS, BY IMAGINATIVE SOLUTIONS ARRIVED AT THROUGH
COOPERATION AND CONSENSUS, BY THE RESOLVE TO LISTEN AND WORK OUT
OUR DIFFERENCES. AFTER ALL, IT IS IN EVERYONE'S INTEREST TO
PROTECT THE PLANET WE SHARE, AT A TIME WHEN EVIDENCE IS MOUNTING
OF THE EARTH'S VULNERABILITY TO DESTABILIZATION.
I AM A CONSERVATIONIST. IT IS MY LIFE'S WORK. THROUGHOUT, IT
HAS BEEN MY INSTINCT CONSCIOUSLY TO SEEK THE ADVICE AND OPINIONS
OF A WIDE SPECTRUM OF AFFECTED PARTIES ON EVERY ISSUE OF
CONSEQUENCE I HAVE FACED.
I HAVE SPENT MY ENTIRE CAREER ADVOCATING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, IN THE CONVICTION THAT GROWTH PROVIDES THE
WHEREWITHAL TO PURSUE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, TO APPLY THE
CONSERVATION WISDOM THAT WE HAVE ACQUIRED THUS FAR, AND TO
EXPAND OUR KNOWLEDGE. I DO NOT SEE A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS FUNDAMENTALLY AT ODDS. THE ECONOMIC
GROWTH WE WANT IS THE KIND THAT DOESN'T SHORTEN OUR BREATH OR OUR
LIVES. IT IS THE KIND THAT CAN BE SUSTAINED.
TO BE SURE, DECISIONS I WILL MAKE IF CONFIRMED AS EPA
ADMINISTRATOR WILL INVOLVE TRADEOFFS, OFTEN SERIOUS TRADEOFFS.
BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ASKING THEIR LEADERS TO DO MORE THAN
WRANGLE OVER THE ENVIRONMENT. THEY ARE INSISTING, I BELIEVE,
THAT WE FIND THE COMMON GROUND OF SUSTAINABLE AND
ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND ECONOMIC GROWTH. I AM CONVINCED WE CAN
FIND IT. ESPECIALLY IF OUR SEARCH EXTENDS BEYOND THE HALLS OF
EPA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TO STATES, AND TO THE PRIVATE
SECTOR, BOTH PROFIT AND NONPROFIT. so MANY OF THE BEST IDEAS,
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FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AS FOR so MUCH ELSE, ARE OUT IN THE COUNTRY,
BEING QUIETLY TRIED AND TESTED. WE NEED TO FIND THESE IDEAS.
OUR REGIONAL OFFICES ARE WELL-EQUIPPED TO LISTEN AND QUESTION,
COOPERATE AND CONSULT, AND THEN MOVE FORWARD IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN
FIELD TESTED.
I WILL TAKE THESE INITIATIVES VERY SERIOUSLY, AS I WILL THE NEED
FOR VIGOROUS AND AGGRESSIVE ENFORCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
AND THE NEW WORLDWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION IN WHICH EPA MUST
PLAY A LEADING PART.
IN SUM, I BELIEVE THAT IN THE YEARS AHEAD THE NATION'S
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES SHOULD REFLECT FIVE PRINCIPAL PRIORITIES:
1. RESPECT FOR SCIENCE;
2. POLLUTION PREVENTION THROUGH WASTE MINIMIZATION AND
RECYCLING;
3. A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER DEGREE OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY AND
COOPERATION WITH OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE; PASSING
THE POLLUTION NEXT DOOR MAKES NO SENSE;
4. AGGRESSIVE ENFORCEMENT: IT IS THE KEY TO AN EFFECTIVE EPA
AND A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT; AND
5. WIDE CONSULTATION AND COOPERATION WITH CONGRESS, THE STATES
AND LOCALITIES, WITH BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
GROUPS IN THE SEARCH FOR THE BEST IDEAS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.
LET ME CONCLUDE BY REAFFIRMING AN OBSERVATION DATING FROM MY
EARLIEST DAYS IN WASHINGTON. BI-PARTISAN COOPERATION AND
COOPERATION BETWEEN THE CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH --
THESE ARE THE PREREQUISITES OF SOUND AND ENDURING ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY.
WHEN I LAST SERVED IN GOVERNMENT, IN THE EARLY 1970'S, THE
ENVIRONMENT ENJOYED A HIGH DEGREE OF BI-PARTISAN COOPERATION, AND
WE GOT THINGS DONE.
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MR. CHAIRMAN, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CHANCE TO BEGIN BUILDING A
PRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH CONGRESS BY WORKING FOR THE
REAUTHORIZATION OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT. WE EXPECT TO OFFER A
COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSAL FOR CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE. AND I WOULD HOPE THAT, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE LAW
THAT EVENTUALLY EMERGES WILL RESULT IN THE SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION
OF ACID RAIN BY THE END OF THIS CENTURY -- A GOAL TO WHICH
PRESIDENT BUSH IS COMMITTED.
IF WE HAVE ANY HOPE OF ENTERING THE NEXT CENTURY WITH A SAFE
ENVIRONMENT, ABUNDANT NATURAL RESOURCES, THE SUBLIME EXPERIENCE
OF WILDERNESS FOR ANY WHO WANT IT, AND A HEALTHY, GROWING
ECONOMY, MUCH MORE WILL HAVE TO BE DONE. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE
WORK--OR, ANYWAY, MOST OF IT--WITH ENTHUSIASM, HAVING DECIDED
LONG AGO THAT NOTHING COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT OR REWARDING THAN
PROTECTING THIS EARTH AND THE MAGNIFICENT LIFE UPON IT.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I WILL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU AND
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE MAY HAVE. THANK YOU.
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World Wildlife Fund is unique among U.S.
conservation organizations because of its affilia-
Saving mountain gorillas in Rwanda and rare
tion with the international WWF network, with
Board of Directors
orchids in the Andes. Helping to create parks in
its conservation experts addressing problems
Costa Rica. Studying Amazon forests to learn
around the world. The network includes national
Russell E. Train
Raymond F. Dasmann
William D. Ruckelshaus
how to design more effective nature reserves.
organizations in 23 countries across five conti-
Chairman
Gaylord Donnelley
Gerald E. Rupp
Training conservation officials in Africa. Help-
nents and is served by international offices in
Melvin B. Lane
John T. Dorrance, Jr.
Lloyd G. Schermer
ing Nepalese park planners safeguard critical
Gland, Switzerland.
Chairman,
Caroline M. Getty
Helen B. Spaulding
watersheds and meet the economic needs of local
WWF also administers the annual J. Paul
Executive Committee
Lena Guerrero
George H. Taber
villagers. Curbing illegal trade in plants and
Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize, which honors
William K. Reilly
Allison Coates Halaby
Nelson S. Talbott
animals. This is the kind of work World Wildlife
an individual or organization for outstanding
President
Lawrence S. Huntington
William C. Turner
Fund (WWF) has undertaken and supported for
international achievement in the field of wildlife
Hunter Lewis
Frances C. James
Sue Erpf Van de Bovenkamp
more than a quarter of a century.
and habitat conservation. The $50,000 award has
Treasurer
Thomas H. Kean
William H. Whyte
Based in Washington, D.C., with a member-
been called the "Nobel Prize of Conservation."
Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff
William T. Lake
Susan M. Williams
ship of more than 462,000 and an annual budget
In 1985, World Wildlife Fund formally affil-
Secretary
Richard D. Lamm
Edward O. Wilson
of over $19 million, World Wildlife Fund is the
iated with The Conservation Foundation, a non-
Oscar Arias Sánchez
Adrienne B. Mars
Rosemary M. Young
leading private U.S. organization working
profit environmental research organization
Anne T. Bass
Cruz A. Matos
worldwide to protect endangered wildlife and
founded in the United States in 1948. The Con-
Edward P. Bass
H. Eugene McBrayer
wildlands. Its top priority is conservation of the
servation Foundation brings to the affiliation
Thornton F. Bradshaw
Scott McVay
tropical forests of Latin America, Asia, and
expertise in social sciences and policy analysis,
John A. Bross
Gilman Ordway
Kathryn S. Fuller
Africa-places that are home to most of the
as well as unmatched experience with U.S. envi-
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd
Julie Packard
Executive Vice-President
world's species and thus uniquely important in
ronmental policy. This perspective, and particu-
protecting the earth's biological diversity.
larly the Foundation's skill in economic analysis,
WWF is action-oriented, supporting individu-
enhances WWF's ability to aid conservation in
als and institutions who carry out practical,
developing countries.
rigorously planned, and scientifically based con-
servation projects on the ground. Since its
founding in 1961, WWF has worked in 103
Methods and Accomplishments
countries to implement more than 1,370 projects
involving a comprehensive array of conservation
As human populations and aspirations expand,
H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
methods.
wildlife and wildlands are facing complex pres-
International Chairman of WWF
In its efforts in developing countries, WWF
sures, particularly in developing countries where
WWF National Organizations:
seeks to strengthen conservation leadership.
most of the world's animal and plant life is
Many WWF projects are designed to help in-
found. To meet these pressures, WWF has
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Hong
country organizations increase their own skill,
adopted a multifacted conservation program.
Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain,
ensuring the availability of local expertise.
WWF protects habitat. It has assisted in the
Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Recognizing that development is imperative to
establishment and management of 250
meet human needs in these countries, WWF
national parks and protected areas, helping
works with local leaders to foster sustainable use
developing countries to conserve the full
of natural and biological resources.
range of their biological resources.
Affiliated with The Conservation Foundation
WWF works in the field to protect individ-
Kayapó Indians, Brazil. In partnership with
North America
Primates. WWF conducts primate projects in
ual species.
Brazil's Indian protection agency, WWF is stud-
North American projects range from protecting
several regions, including the work on golden
WWF projects promote ecologically sound
ying traditional Kayapo agricultural practices,
the highly endangered black-footed ferret in
lion tamarins in Brazil. WWF supports impor-
development consistent with the long-term
which use sophisticated land conservation skills
Wyoming to conservation education programs,
tant primate conservation research in Madagas-
maintenance of ecological processes and the
that may be valuable elsewhere in the tropics.
such as "Future in the Wild," now being exhi-
car, home to 38 lemur species and subspecies
sustainable use of wildlife and ecosystems.
bited at many U.S. ZOOS and aquariums.
found nowhere else.
WWF supports scientific investigation that
Together with the New England Aquarium,
provides an ecological information base
Africa and Madagascar
WWF has supported research on right whales in
permitting informed conservation and
With other organizations in the WWF family,
the Bay of Fundy and off the Georgia coast.
International Development
development decisions.
World Wildlife Fund is playing an increasingly
These studies complement other WWF research
Reflecting principles embodied in the World
WWF promotes education in developing
important role in saving African wildlife. Its
on humpback and gray whales as well as provide
Conservation Strategy, WWF is implementing
countries, building local citizen understand-
activities range from protecting representative
information for the scientific deliberations of the
conservation projects that meet local develop-
ing and long-term support for conservation
examples of dwindling habitat to efforts to con-
ment needs not only through its regional pro-
International Whaling Commission.
initiatives.
serve the continent's awe-inspiring but endan-
grams but also through the innovative Wildlands
WWF provides training, enhancing the
gered mammal populations, from the rare moun-
and Human Needs Program, funded in part by
skills of local wildlife professionals and offi-
tain gorilla to the herds of wildebeest roaming
Multiregional Activities
the U.S. Agency for International Development.
cials who can best guide conservation in
the savannah. WWF is currently involved in
WWF is working in Africa's Lake Malawi
their countries.
nearly 40 projects in this region, including:
National Park, for example, to provide villagers
By encouraging institutional self-sufficiency
Masai Mara, Kenya. This national reserve is a
Many WWF activities are not limited to single
with sustainable economic alternatives to ecolog-
in developing countries, WWF helps
critical refuge for nearly 1.5 million wildebeests,
regions. Creating an international network of
ically damaging fishing practices.
government agencies, private organizations,
200,000 zebras, and 500,000 Thompson's
reserves to protect resting and "refueling" sites of
and university research centers to design,
gazelles, which migrate across the Serengeti.
Western Hemisphere migratory shorebirds;
WWF works with local authorities to resolve
working with the World Bank to assure that fra-
Public Policy
fund, and implement effective conservation
activities.
land-use pressures on the reserve.
gile tropical environments are respected; curbing
Because of its experience worldwide, WWF is
WWF monitors international wildlife trade
Madagascar. To preserve what remains of
illegal trade in wildlife-these are the kinds of
able to make unique contributions on public pol-
to prevent illegal or excessive trade from
Madagascar's unique wildlife, WWF for several
activities that complement WWF's regional
icy matters that transcend national boundaries.
endangering plant and animal species.
years has worked with cooperating institutions
programs.
Staff members work actively to help implement
multilateral treaties and strive to improve the
WWF also seeks to influence public opinion
to establish a reserve and training program in
Science for Conservation
environmental performance of international
and the policies of governments and private
this island country.
institutions to promote conservation of the
Successful conservation must be firmly based on
agencies. WWF has taken the lead in innovative
scientific knowledge. Research on ecosystems
programs that allow developing countries to
earth's biological resources.
Asia and the Pacific
and wildlife is, therefore, a key part of WWF's
convert their foreign debt burden into support
for saving tropical forests and other habitats.
Regional Programs
A new priority for WWF, Asia's tropical forests
agenda. Its research programs aim to determine
and other wildlands are under tremendous pres-
how best to manage individual species and habi-
Latin America and the Caribbean
sure from human population growth. WWF
tats and to gain critical data for setting conserva-
During the 1980s, WWF has devoted more than
activities focus on a few countries-Nepal, Thai-
tion priorities.
TRAFFIC
half of its program expenditures to over 550 con-
land, Bhutan, and Indonesia, among others—
Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems.
servation projects in Latin America, a region
and build on experience gained there, combining
Together with INPA, Brazil's Amazonian
TRAFFIC (U.S.A.) is part of an international
exceptionally rich in wildlife. For example:
wildlife and habitat protection with leadership
research institute, WWF finances and codirects
network that monitors trade in wild plants and
Manu National Park, Peru. For almost 20
development. Among the more than 40 projects
the world's largest controlled ecological research
animals, a billion dollarbusiness in the United
years, WWF has been active in establishing and
currently under way are:
effort, the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems
States alone. TRAFFIC alerts governments to
maintaining Peru's spectacular Manu National
Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. Nepal
Project. Begun in 1980, this unique multiyear
incidents of illegal trade and to the problems
Park. The park's 6,000 square miles shelter
is threatened by extensive deforestation and
experiment is identifying the minimum area of
caused by excessive levels of lawful trade.
nearly 10 percent of all bird species on earth.
exploitation of its natural resources. WWF is
rain forest that will protect the variety of plant
Wildlife Trade Laws. One means of reducing
Golden Lion Tamarins, Brazil. This is the first
working with the King Mahendra Trust for
and animal life characteristic of the ecosystem.
illegal trade is to ensure that market countries
systematic attempt to reintroduce an endan-
Nature Conservation to coordinate the planning
Fragmentation of habitats is occurring the world
observe the export laws of wildlife-rich coun-
gered, captive-bred primate, the golden lion
for this new protected area, which will directly
over, so the results of the research will aid the
tries. To this end, TRAFFIC (U.S.A.) is prepar-
tamarin, to its natural habitat. The project also
benefit the surrounding villagers and help pre-
design and management of protected areas
ing country-by-country summaries of wildlife
includes training of Brazilian wildlife managers
serve the country's remarkable wildlife and natu-
everywhere.
trade laws and regulations in Asia, Africa, and
and conservation education.
ral beauty for future generations.
Ethnobotany and Plant Conservation. New
Latin America for use by international organiza-
Resource Management Education Program.
Giant Panda, People's Republic of China. For
uses for tropical plants in agriculture, industry,
tions, U.S. government officials, and wildlife
WWF has developed materials and trained edu-
several years, WWF has worked with the Chi-
and medicine have been found, with some plants
traders themselves.
cators to teach basic environmental and ecologi-
nese government to conduct scientific fieldwork,
serving as cancer treatments and natural contra-
"Buyer Beware!" Public A wareness Campaign.
cal concepts to young students. The program has
construct research and reserve stations, and
ceptives. By studying how indigenous South
Through exhibits, advertisements, audiovisual
already been adopted by schools in Costa Rica,
develop a long-term management plan to assure
American peoples use these plants, WWF is
shows and brochures, WWF is educating travel-
Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina.
the survival of the giant panda and its habitat.
making important discoveries that strengthen the
ers and consumers on how to avoid illegal wild-
case for plant conservation.
life trade purchases.
®
World Wildlife Fund
The Conservation Foundation
STATEMENT BY WILLIAM K. REILLY
Old Executive Office
December 22, 1988
I am deeply honored that President-elect George Bush has
selected me for this important job.
Throughout his campaign, the Vice President demonstrated his
understanding of the immense environmental problems facing not
only this country, but our entire planet. In his campaign, and
in his discussions with me, he has stressed his commitment to
solving those problems. The solutions will not come easily.
I am gratified that the President-elect believes that my
past experience at World Wildlife Fund and The Conservation
Foundation will help me to serve him in charting a new and
constructive course on environmental policy--at home and abroad.
To my knowledge, this is the first time the leader of a
major conservation organization has been appointed directly to
the position of EPA Administrator. I think that fact in itself
suggests how the President-elect views the work ahead of us.
I look forward to this job. I have the greatest respect for
the Environmental Protection Agency, its current Administrator
Lee Thomas, and the agency's dedicated staff. And I expect to
work very closely with the Congress to build the bipartisan
support we must have to ensure environmental progress.
Thank you.
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World Wildlife Fund
The Conservation Foundation
CURRICULUM VITAE
WILLIAM K. REILLY
EXPERIENCE
1985 - Present
President, World Wildlife Fund-U.S.,
Washington, D.C., one of 23 national
organizations in the WWF international
network; with 600,000 members and an annual
budget of $30 million, WWF-U.S. is the
preeminent private organization working to
save endangered wildlife and wildlands
worldwide, with emphases on protecting
tropical forests in Latin America, Africa,
and Asia and on promoting environmentally
sustainable development through practical
field projects linking conservation and
economic improvement; over its 27 year
history, WWF has sponsored or supported more
than 100 countries. WWF's membership has
tripled during Mr. Reilly's three years as
president, and it is the fastest growing
conservation organization in the country.
1973 - Present
President, The Conservation Foundation,
Washington, D.C.; founded in 1948, with an
annual budget of $5 million the Foundation is
committed to improving the quality of the
environment and securing wise use of the
earth's natural resources by influencing
public policy; current Foundation priorities
include pollution control and toxic
substances, public and private land use, and
fostering environmentally sound economic
development in the Third World; during Mr.
Reilly's tenure, the Foundation published 3
"state of the environment" reports, the most
comprehensive analyses of environmental
conditions ever prepared by a private
organization, and began a major program
advocating direct cooperation between
business leaders and conservationists in
solving polarizing issues in resource and
environmental policy
1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA 202/293-4800 Telex: 64505 PANDA
1972 - 1973
Executive Director, Task Force on Land Use
and Urban Growth, a 12-member committee
chaired by Laurance S. Rockefeller. The Task
Force produced a popular report, The Use of
Land, which went through three printings and
50,000 copies.
1970 -1972
Senior Staff Member of the President's
Council on Environmental Quality with
principal responsibilities in the areas of
land use, public lands, urban growth policy
and historic preservation. Authored decision
papers and legislation in fields of land use
policy, public lands' management, mining and
mineral leasing laws and historic
preservation.
1968 - 1970
Associate Director, Urban Policy Center,
Urban America, Inc. and the National Urban
Coalition. Co-Authored report for the Public
Land Law Review Commission entitled "Probable
Future Urban Demands Upon the Public Lands.' "
1966 - 1967
U.S. Army with the rank of Captain.
1965
Attorney: Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock
and Parsons, Chicago, Illinois.
EDUCATION
1971 M.S. in Urban Planning, Columbia University
1965 J.D., Harvard Law School
1962 B.A., Yale University
PERSONAL
Married in 1965 to Elizabeth Bennett Buxton, formerly of
North Haven, Connecticut. The Reillys live with their two
daughters, Katherine Buxton, aged 18, and Margaret Mahalah,
aged 13, in Alexandria, Virginia.
AFFILIATIONS
Vice President of the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN), based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Member, Board of Directors, Northeast Utilities. (NU is
the principal provider of electricity to Connecticut and
Western Massachusetts.)
Member, Board of Directors, Clean Sites, Inc. (Clean Sites
was created by a Conservation Foundation Steering Committee
of chemical executives and environmental leaders to mediate
the cleanup of hazardous wastes sites.
Member, Board of Directors, Winrock International Center for
Agricultural Development. (Agricultural research training
and service organizations with projects in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America.)
Member, Board of Directors, American Farmland Trust.
Past Chairman, Natural Resources Council of America, 1981 -
1983. (NRCA is the association of all major conservation
groups.)
Member, Gas Research Institute Advisory Council.
Member, Advisory Council, Concern, Inc.
Member, U.S. Citizen's Advisory Committee to Habitat, the
U.N. Conference on Human Settlements and a member of the
U.S. delegation in 1976.
HONORS
1984 Horace Albright Medal Winner (awarded for "outstanding
contribution to the national parks").
1988 Alfred B. LaGasse Medal, Landscape Architecture
Foundation (recognized "major achievement in the field of
the environment").
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
AND LECTURES
"Managing Growth: From Accidental Cities to Successful
Communities, Address to the Commonwealth Club of
California, San Francisco, California, December 4, 1987.
"A Little Learning from 1100 Projects: Conservation and
Development Moving into the 1990s, Address to the 4th World
Wilderness Congress, Denver, Colorado, September 1987.
"Twenty Years of Progress - Country Report for the United
States," Address to the Pacific Environmental Conference,
Nagoya, Japan, June, 1987.
"The New Context for Conservation in Latin America," Keynote
Address to World Wildlife Fund's 25th Anniversary
Conference, "Partners in Conservation," Washington, D.C.,
September 17, 1986.
"Parks in the Pacific," Address to the 3rd South Pacific
National Parks and Reserve Conference, Apia, Western Samoa,
June, 1985.
"The Chemical Industry's Stake in Voluntary Cleanups,"
Address to the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Manufacturers
in Houston, Texas, October 30, 1984.
"Toward More Efficient and Effective Environmental
Policies, Keynote Address to the Conference for Ministers
from OECD Countries, Paris, France, June 21, 1984.
"Cleaning our Chemical Waste Backyard," The Wall Street
Journal, May 31, 1984.
"Soils, Society and Sustainability,' Keynote Address to the
50th Anniversary Meeting of the Soil Conservation Society of
America, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 30, 1984.
"Surviving Success and Aging Gracefully," The Bemis Free
Lecture Series, Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 28, 1983.
"Environmental Conditions and Trends," American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Detroit, Michigan, May 27,
1983.
"The U.S. and the Global Environment: A Modest Proposal,"
Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Los Angeles, California,
September 28, 1983.
"Reconciling Mineral Development and Environmental Quality,"
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, April 1, 1982.
"The Challenge of Defederalization, " Keynote Address at
National Planning Conference of American Planning
Association, Boston, Massachusetts, April 29, 1981.
"Conservation in the 1980s: Building a Firm Foundation,"
Town Hall of California, Los Angeles, California, July 8,
1980.
"The City in Transition, " Faculty Chairman of Salzburg
Seminar in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria, June 15-28,
1980.
"Reconciling U.S. Industrial and Environmental Policies,"
speech delivered at Conference Board Meeting, New York City,
March 10, 1980.
"The Resettlement of Rural America," National Governors
Conference, Washington, D.C., February 25, 1980.
"The Social Obligations of Property," Aldo Leopold Memorial
Colloquium Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August,
1978.
"The Future of America's Land: Six Lessons from America's
Past, " The 1977 Carolyn B. Haffenreffer Visiting Fellow
Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode
Island, October, 1977.
Editor (and a principal contributor), The Use of Land: A
Citizens' Policy Guide to Urban Growth, 1973, Thomas Y.
Crowell Company, New York.
"Conservation, Community and Personal Responsibility," the
B.Y. Morrison Memorial Lecture, 1976. Keynote Address
before the National League of Cities' Annual Meeting, Miami
Beach, Florida, 1975.
Dana Lauren West
Communications
Associate
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The Conservation Foundation
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Washington, DC 20037 USA
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Bush's EPA Choice Declares New Era'
Reilly's Advocacy at Hearing Contrasts With Predecessors
He called for reductions in the
By Michael Weisskopf
created, he said, the list of environ-
Washington Post Staff Writer
man-made gasses that cause global
mental problems has "lengthened
warming and faster and deeper cuts
and grown more complex." Toxic
President Bush's choice to head
in ozone-depleting chlorofluorocar-
substances are more widely distrib-
the Environmental Protection
bons (CFCs), predicting an active
uted, landfills have become "envi-
Agency yesterday declared a "new
role by the Bush administration in
ronmental hazards," air quality is
era" in environmental regulation,
such international environmental
often worse indoors than outdoors
pledging aggressive prosecution of
issues.
and chemicals widely pollute drink-
polluters and innovative solutions to
He promised to work closely with
ing water sources.
the nation's "daunting" ecological
the Justice Department to strength-
Reilly, 48, president of the World
problems.
en enforcement of environmental
Wildlife Fund and Conservation
"Rarely, if ever before, has there
Foundation, is the first professional
been such a need for leadership on
environmentalist appointed to head
the environment," William K. Reilly
said at his Senate confirmation
"I expect to be a
the EPA and was received warmly
by committee members frustrated
hearing. "I expect to be a strong
strong advocate for
in the past by such Reagan appoin-
WILLIAM K. REILLY
advocate for the environment."
tees as Anne M. Burford, known for
nation is at "an historic moment"
Although he offered no concrete
the environment."
her antiregulatory fervor and Lee
plans to illustrate Bush's professed
M. Thomas a deliberate, techno-
terfere with economic growth, and
commitment to the environment,
-William K. Reilly
cratic administrator.
in his prepared testimony, spoke of
Reilly was a marked contrast, both
"You inherit an environmental
the need for "reconciliation of inter-
in tone and substance, to his pre-
laws and reverse the 40 percent
legacy of neglect and mismanage-
ests" and "imaginative solutions ar-
drop in cases since 1980.
decessors in the Reagan adminis-
ment," Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg
rived at through cooperation."
And he described his agenda with
(D-N.J.) said.
tration.
But he said under questioning
an urgency unheard of in a decade
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
He said the administration will
that being a consensus-builder does
of general indifference by the fed-
struck the only critical view of Re-
not make him "somehow soft" on
propose a comprehensive bill to
eral government to environmental
illy during his three-hour appear-
the environment. "You can count on
strengthen air pollution laws, in-
problems. "We are at an historic
ance, questioning whether his stat-
me to be an advocate," Reilly added.
cluding provisions to control acid
moment, characterized by urgency
ed preference for consensus means
The first item on his agenda, he
rain, breaking an eight-year pattern
and opportunity," Reilly told a
he will dilute environmental regu-
said, is air pollution legislation, and
of inaction by former president
packed hearing of the Senate En-
lations and negotiate with rather
he said "the country has waited 12
Ronald Reagan.
vironment and Public Works Com-
than stand up to polluters. "It's en-
long years" since the last author-
He said he opposes further relax-
mittee. He pointed to the past sum-
vironmental protection agency, not
ization of the Clean Air Act. He said
ation of gasoline mileage standards
mer of drought, ocean pollution and
environmental consensus agency,"
the administration is preparing a
and the dominant role played by
forest fires as ominous signs of en-
Baucus said.
"credible and realistic" plan for cut-
private contractors in the Super-
vironment breakdown.
Reilly is an advocate of environ-
ting acid rain pollutants, but he
fund toxic waste cleanup program.
Two decades after the EPA was
mental protection that does not in-
backed away from specifics.
sa
og
Transition
Bush Turns Bold in Latest Cabinet Selections
President-elect George Bush
jan Jr., R-N.M., as secretary of the
came close to rounding out his Cabi-
interior. Lujan is not rated highly by
The Bush Team
net team the week of Dec. 19 with his
environmental groups.
most provocative choices to date.
To lead the Department of Trans-
Bush showed he does not fear
portation (DOT), Bush turned to
competition from the right, as he
Samuel K. Skinner, an Illinois transit
tapped former presidential rival Jack
official who headed Bush's campaign
Jack F.
F. Kemp to be his secretary of Hous-
in that state. And he tapped an old
Kemp
ing and Urban Development (HUD).
friend and former House colleague,
Bush defeated the New York Republi-
Edward J. Derwinski, R-Ill. (1959-83),
can, a darling of the GOP's right wing
to head the new Department of Veter-
Housing and
who is retiring from the House after
ans Affairs.
Urban Development
nine terms, in the primaries.
As of Dec. 23, only two Cabinet
The president-elect defied the
posts remained to be filled: the Energy
Secretary
powerful anti-abortion lobby with his
and Labor departments. Bush also
selection of Dr. Louis W. Sullivan to
must name the new "drug czar," a
head the Department of Health and
Cabinet-level position. (Previous ap-
Born in Los Angeles Calif., on
Human Services (HHS). Sullivan, a
pointments, Weekly Report pp. 3540,
July 13, 1935
graduated from
physician and president of the
3487, 3453, 3388-91, 3368-69, 3246)
Occidental College, 1957
Army
Morehouse School of Medicine in At-
Reserve, 1958-62
professional
lanta, is the first black named to the
Few New Faces
football quarterback, 1957-70,
Bush Cabinet.
Few of Bush's nominees are the
mostly with San Diego Chargers
Sullivan incurred the wrath of
"new faces" he vowed to bring into his
and Buffalo Bills; won two Ameri-
anti-abortion groups when he was
administration. Chase Untermeyer,
can Football League champion-
quoted by the Atlanta Journal and
transition director for personnel, said
ships and one AFL most valuable
Constitution as saying that "there
player award
co-founded AFL
Dec. 20 that Bush meant there would
should be that right" for a woman to
be new faces in "the sub-Cabinet, in
Players Association and was its
have an abortion. Although Sullivan
the embassies."
president, 1965-70
elected to
later insisted his views on abortion
But his nominees do reflect his
U.S. House in 1970 to represent
were exactly the same as Bush's, most
promise to seek minorities and women
Buffalo suburbs, re-elected through
of the anti-abortion groups remained
for his Cabinet. In addition to Sullivan, a
1986
elected Republican Con-
noisily opposed to his selection.
ference chairman, 1981
entered
black, Bush now has two Hispanics in his
In another bold stroke, Bush be-
Cabinet - Lujan and Lauro F. Cavazos,
Republican presidential primary on
came the first chief executive to name
who was asked to stay on as education
April 6, 1987; withdrew March 10,
1988
a professional environmentalist to
secretary. He has named one woman to a
married, four children.
head the Environmental Protection
Cabinet-level job - Carla A. Hills, as
Agency (EPA), signaling he was seri-
U.S. trade representative.
ous about his campaign promises to
He may fill one of the two remain-
In choosing Kemp, 53, as HUD's
elevate environmental issues on the
ing Cabinet posts with a woman as
ninth secretary, Bush did more than
national agenda. He chose William K.
well. Top contenders for labor secre-
reach out to a former adversary. He
Reilly, president of the Conservation
tary include Office of Personnel Man-
handed an olive branch to the right
Foundation and of the U.S. affiliate of
agement Director Constance Horner
wing of his party, which reportedly
the World Wildlife Fund, as EPA ad-
and Patricia Diaz Dennis, a member of
was growing uneasy over the moderate
ministrator.
the Federal Communications Commis-
tenor of Bush's Cabinet.
In announcing Reilly's selection
sion.
Kemp entered the GOP presiden-
to head EPA, which is not a Cabinet
Bush reportedly has not decided
tial primaries as the self-proclaimed
department, at the same time that he
whom to appoint to head the Depart-
heir to the Reagan revolution. An
named four new Cabinet secretaries,
ment of Energy. But he said during a
early and ardent advocate of the sup-
Bush said, "It is an agency whose mis-
Dec. 19 press briefing that he was
ply-side economics that President
sion, in my view, is of tremendous im-
leaning toward naming someone with
Reagan embraced, he was the archi-
portance to America's future."
expertise in nuclear energy rather
tect of the big tax cuts that Reagan
Balancing the selection of Reilly,
than in oil and gas.
pushed through Congress in 1981. But
Bush picked retiring Rep. Manuel Lu-
In other news, Bush Dec. 20
his campaign never caught fire, and he
named former Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-
withdrew March 10, following the
-By Macon Morehouse, Phil Kuntz,
Nev., and former Rep. Thomas L.
"Super Tuesday" primaries.
Julie Rouner, Paul Starobin
Ashley, D-Ohio, to the National Eco-
If confirmed by the Senate, Kemp
see
also
and David S. Cloud
nomic Commission. (Story, p. 3595)
will succeed the only eight-year mem-
last
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Transition - 2
ber of Reagan's Cabinet and its lone
Kemp voted against the original
Critics of Reagan's policies out-
black, Samuel R. Pierce Jr.
bill in 1987, and this year he voted
side the government were much more
Although he is noted as a political
with a majority of the House against
negative.
conservative, Kemp has made a well-
shifting $400 million from NASA into
Florence Roisman, an activist
publicized effort to lure blacks into the
other domestic programs, including
lawyer who has represented the poor
GOP. Robert Woodson, a conservative
$100 million for the homeless.
in housing matters for two decades,
black activist and Kemp ally who ad-
Without mentioning his past
said: "I see no basis for optimism
I
vocates tenant management of public
votes, Kemp apparently repudiated
don't understand what everybody is so
housing as president of the non-profit
them at a Dec. 19 press conference
happy about. If his only programs are
National Center for Neighborhood En-
with Bush. After reciting several Bush
enterprise zones and selling public
terprise, is reportedly being eyed for a
campaign promises, including "full
housing, he is going to be a disas-
job as Kemp's top deputy.
funding of the McKinney Act," Kemp
ter."
During his nine-term career in the
said, "I'm looking forward to helping
Mitch Snyder, an outspoken ac-
House, Kemp established himself as
George Bush fulfill these pledges."
tivist for the homeless, added, "What
an effective and outspoken advocate
While Kemp's congressional ca-
we need in this country is a massive
of conservative causes. He supported
reer has been dominated by macro-
infusion of federal dollars into hous-
Reagan on roughly three of every four
economic issues and foreign affairs, he
ing, and he is not committed to that.
votes on which the president took a
was closely associated with two urban
Therefore, there is nothing to be posi-
position. His votes agreed with the
initiatives:
tive about."
American Conservative Union about
Enterprise zones. Kemp wanted
At the press conference, Bush ad-
90 percent of the time.
the government to give tax breaks and
mitted "dancing around" on questions
Kemp was a particularly depend-
regulatory relief to businesses that lo-
about HUD's budget, but added: "You
able vote on the House floor during
cate in blighted areas. A much-wa-
don't show your determination to
Reagan's successful drive to dismantle
tered-down version of the idea that
solve a problem by simply increasing
housing-construction subsidy programs
included no federal tax breaks was en-
federal spending. There are other
and to limit the scope of the rest of
acted in 1987 (PL 100-242).
ways to skin a cat." Kemp signaled an
HUD's activities. In fact, if Kemp's
Sale of public housing to tenants.
unwillingness to cut HUD's budget
side had prevailed more often, HUD's
In 1986, the House accepted a Kemp
more than it has been already: "I want
deeply cut budget might be even small-
proposal allowing tenants to buy their
it known that you cannot balance the
er than fiscal 1989's $12.8 billion.
apartments at greatly reduced prices
budget off the backs of the poor [or]
and interest rates, but then rejected
the housing budget."
Voted to Cut Housing Programs
the proposal in 1987 after Democrats
In 1982, Kemp voted against
decried it as a thinly veiled attempt to
A Push for New Construction?
emergency legislation creating a $1 bil-
get the government out of the business
With Reagan gone, Democrats
lion program to reduce home-loan in-
of housing the poor. (1987 Almanac p.
and some urban Republicans are ex-
terest rates, which Reagan successfully
682)
pected to make a big push for con-
vetoed. Kemp voted in 1983 to shift
struction subsidies in the 101st Con-
$1.07 billion from construction and re-
Mixed Reaction to Appointment
gress. Reagan steadfastly refused to
habilitation subsidy programs to a
While Kemp's selection was
consider most such subsidies, con-
rental-assistance program, an amend-
cheered by Republicans, Capitol Hill
tending repeatedly that the nation's
ment the House rejected. He voted to
critics of Reagan's housing policies ex-
housing problem was mostly one of
give Reagan the authority to cut any
pressed mixed emotions. They were
affordability, not availability. With
item in the HUD-Independent Agen-
upbeat that Kemp's high profile
that argument, he managed to replace
cies fiscal 1985 spending bill by 10 per-
would raise the visibility of an agency
programs aimed at expanding the sup-
cent, which the House also rejected.
that has been in the shadows for eight
ply of housing with rental-assistance
In 1985, he voted for three appro-
years under the stewardship of the
payments in the form of vouchers.
priations amendments to cut a total of
low-key Pierce. But they fretted over
While Bush told reporters he had
$1.7 billion from housing programs;
his conservative record.
ruled out "a massive federal home-
two of them, totaling $1.5 billion in
Typical was the reaction of
building program," many critics of
cuts, were approved. He voted in 1986
Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., among
Reagan's housing policies and others
for an unsuccessful amendment that
the most vocal House advocates of in-
predicted that Bush would not be as
would have cut $3 billion from a HUD
creased housing expenditures: "I think
set against trying to increase the na-
authorization bill. Also that year, he
an activist conservative will do more
tion's housing supply.
voted for a successful amendment that
to help inner cities and poor people
Linda Parke Gallagher, executive
shifted money from construction pro-
than a do-nothing moderate. We have
director of the Affordable Housing
grams to repair and modernization
had eight years of neglect."
Preservation Center and a member of
programs. In 1987, he voted for an
Schumer's allies on the Hill were
Bush's HUD transition team, said, "I
unsuccessful proposal to cut $1.7 bil-
greatly encouraged by statements by
think you're going to have a more flex-
lion from a HUD authorization bill.
Kemp at a press conference with
ible approach."
Perhaps Kemp's most noteworthy
Bush. Kemp decried the "appalling
A senior aide to Alan Cranston,
votes were cast against the one set of
tragedy" of homelessness. "I want to
D-Calif., chairman of the Senate
housing-related programs that Bush
wage war on poverty," Kemp added,
Banking Committee's housing panel,
repeatedly endorsed during the presi-
borrowing a phrase used by President
added, "The readings we're getting in-
dential campaign - those authorized
Johnson to sell his "Great Society"
dicate that the Bush administration
by the Stewart B. McKinney Home-
initiatives of the mid-1960s, which in-
will not be as bullheaded on this issue
less Assistance Act (PL 100-77).
cluded the creation of HUD.
as the Reagan people have been."
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Transition - 3
us, and at worst unsympathetic."
is that I am opposed to abortion ex-
The Bush Team
The furor exploded after publica-
cept in the case of rape, incest or
tion of an interview in the Dec. 18
threat to the life of the mother," Sulli-
editions of the Atlanta Journal and
van said. "I'm also opposed to federal
Constitution subtitled "Atlanta Edu-
funding of abortion except in the case
cator Says He's Pro-choice." The arti-
of a threat to the life of the mother."
Louis W.
cle paraphrased Sullivan as saying he
The latter has been current law since
Sullivan
supported a woman's right to have an
Congress eliminated rape and incest
abortion, although he opposed federal
exemptions from the ban on federal
abortion funding. "I don't think the
funding for abortions in 1981. (Weekly
Health and
federal government should be in-
Report p. 2607)
volved," the paper quoted Sullivan as
Under questioning from report-
Human Services
saying, "because it's such a divisive,
ers, however, Sullivan would not say
Secretary
emotional issue."
that he had been misquoted in the
Transition officials sought to
Journal and Constitution interview,
quell the rising storm, secreting them-
and refused all comment on the sub-
Born in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 3,
selves with Sullivan in a series of
ject until his confirmation hearings. "I
1933
graduated from Morehouse
meetings, but anti-abortion activists
have stated today as clearly as I possi-
College in Atlanta, magna cum
continued their attack.
bly can what my position is, and I will
laude, in 1954
received his M.D.
A spokesman for the Ad Hoc
leave it there."
from Boston University in 1958
Committee in Defense of Life said the
Bush said he thought Sullivan's
co-director of hematology, Boston
naming of Sullivan would be "a slap in
comments, combined with the seal of
University Medical Center, 1966-75
the face to the millions of anti-abor-
approval from congressional anti-
professor, later dean, director,
tion voters."
abortion leaders, "would satisfy any
and since 1985, president of the
Bush advisers, savvy in the ways
critic."
Morehouse School of Medicine
of Washington, concentrated on reas-
But the anti-abortion groups re-
member of myriad educational,
suring key members of Congress who
mained adamant. "Either Dr. Sullivan
medical and scientific organizations,
will have to work with Sullivan if he is
has been totally misquoted, or he has
including the National Cancer Insti-
confirmed by the Senate.
completely changed his position in the
tute's National Cancer Advisory
By Dec. 21, their efforts had paid
last few days," said a statement issued
Board
prominent medical re-
off. "I have been convinced and am
by the NRLC Dec. 22, adding that the
searcher, specializing in blood disor-
convinced today that his position on
group remained opposed to the ap-
ders related to vitamin deficiencies
the pro-life issue is fully consistent
pointment.
married, with three children.
with Vice President Bush's," said Rep.
John P. Fowler, head of the Ad
Vin Weber, R-Minn., a member of the
Hoc Committee's Washington office,
Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, after
said, "Our position remains that the
A friend of the Bush family (Bar-
meeting with Sullivan that day. "I
appointment is obviously the first test
bara Bush has served on the board of
asked him about the Atlanta Journal
of the president-elect's own position
Morehouse School of Medicine since
article, and he simply said that he was
on the issue. If he appoints an on-the-
1983), Sullivan is nonetheless an un-
not used to dealing with the press, and
record pro-abortionist like Dr. Sulli-
known quantity to most of official
he stumbled badly, in his own words,
van to lead HHS, which is the admin-
Washington. If confirmed he will be
in handling that question."
istration's primary abortion battle-
the second consecutive physician to
Weber is a member of the Appro-
ground, he flunks."
head the government agency whose
priations subcommittee that deter-
budget is second only to the Penta-
mines HHS's budget.
Some Groups Are Pleased
gon's.
Sullivan will not be without allies,
Echoing the Bush Line
however. Marian Wright Edelman, ex-
The Abortion Firestorm
Without mentioning abortion di-
ecutive director of the Children's De-
The first hints that Sullivan's
rectly, Bush said in announcing the
fense Fund, spoke highly of the HHS
nomination might prove controversial
appointment Dec. 22 that "Dr. Sulli-
secretary-designate, whom she knows
came late in the week of Dec. 12, when
van and I see eye to eye on the critical
from her work as chairman of the
the National Right to Life Committee
issues facing the next secretary of
board of trustees of Atlanta's Spelman
(NRLC), a leading anti-abortion
HHS." He said Sullivan "has great
College.
group, wrote to Bush to formally op-
credentials in the black community"
"He will be one who is very sensi-
pose the appointment.
and is "an outstanding leader in the
tive to the medically underserved,"
"Nomination of a secretary of
health community."
said Edelman, whose group focuses on
HHS who does not have solid pro-life
Sullivan, who denied that he was
the needs of poor children. "At least
credentials would produce severe and
told what to say or that anyone other
we won't have to go to him to say we
long-lasting disappointment among
than he wrote his remarks, did address
have a problem. He knows we have a
hundreds of thousands of pro-life ac-
the abortion issue head-on during the
problem. That will be refreshing."
tivists who worked hard for the
Dec. 22 press conference, saying that
Sullivan also has the enthusiastic
Bush/Quayle ticket," said the letter.
his position "is the same as that of
backing of conservative Rep. Newt
"Based on our own inquiries into Dr.
President-elect Bush, with whom I
Gingrich, R-Ga., who spent several
Sullivan's background
[i]t appears
agree completely.
weeks leading up to the announce-
that he is, at best, uninterested and
"I wish to emphasize that in the
ment promoting his fellow Georgian's
uninformed on the issues of concern to
area of abortion, my personal position
candidacy for the job.
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Transition - 4
Environmentalist at EPA
new EPA administrator. During his
Reilly brings a solid reputation as
presidential campaign, Bush made po-
an environmentalist and consensus-
litical hay by distancing himself from
The Bush Team
builder to a post that has lost much of
Reagan on such environmental issues
its credibility and stature during the
as controlling ocean dumping and acid
past eight years. The EPA's laissez-
rain, and cleaning up toxic waste
faire attitude toward environmental
sites.
Samuel K.
law enforcement throughout the Rea-
Bush has also promised to take
Skinner
gan administration has led to a contin-
the lead in preserving wetlands, prom-
ual state of war with environmental
ising "no net loss" of such areas. Land
groups.
preservation has been a high priority
Transportation
As president both of The Con-
for Reilly and his group.
servation Foundation, a small envi-
Secretary
ronmental policy think tank, and of
Clean Air Policy
the U.S. affiliate of the World Wildlife
A recent Conservation Founda-
Fund, an activist group devoted to
tion-sponsored study by a broad spec-
saving the natural resources of devel-
trum of farm, business and environ-
Born in Chicago, Ill., on June
oping nations, Reilly, 48, has made
mental leaders proposed a major
10, 1938
received accounting de-
himself a force in environmental pol-
restructuring of wetlands policy. The
gree from University of Illinois in
icy. His practice has been to follow a
proposals included transferring con-
1960
Army officer, 1960-61
middle course - carefully cultivating
trol of wetlands protection to the
worked in marketing and manage-
the cooperation of business while
states, as well as "no net loss."
ment at IBM Corp., 1961-68, while
keeping an ear tuned to environmen-
Congress will take up clean-air
earning law degree at DePaul Uni-
talists' voices.
legislation, including acid-rain and
versity
assistant U.S. attorney
"I have given most of my career to
smog controls, next year in its peren-
for Northern District of Illinois,
the effort to try to promote consensus
nial attempt to overhaul the 1970
1968-75, and U.S. attorney, 1975-77
between the interests concerned with
Clean Air Act Amendments. Reagan
senior partner in Chicago law
development and those concerned for
responded to concerns about acid rain
firm of Sidley & Austin
served
the protection of the environment,"
by saying that not enough was known
since 1984 as chairman of Regional
said Reilly on Dec. 22.
about the effects to justify new man-
Transportation Authority of
His interest in consensus-building
datory controls. Bush, by contrast, has
Northeastern Illinois
Illinois
co-
has occasionally led some environmen-
pledged to act.
chairman of Bush's 1980 presiden-
talists to question Reilly's commit-
"The president-elect has made it
tial bid and 1988 Bush-Quayle
ment to using the power of govern-
very clear that he is committed to
campaign
licensed pilot
ment to clean up the environment. An
more than study on acid rain. And so
married, with three children.
example, some observers say, is The
am I," said Reilly.
Conservation Foundation's involve-
The EPA is also scheduled to
ment in an EPA-sponsored study to
complete major studies of the effects
Skinner has a background in mass
re-evaluate the "superfund" hazard-
of pesticides on human health, of pes-
transportation, a record as a tough
ous-waste cleanup law. The law, which
ticide contamination of groundwater,
prosecuting attorney and a pilot's all-
Reagan signed reluctantly in 1986, is
of toxic pollutants in drinking water,
weather license. But it is probably his
authorized through 1991.
and of radon and other indoor pollu-
political connections that won him his
Environmentalists maintain that
tion.
nomination for DOT secretary.
"superfund" needs tough enforce-
Reilly, who was born in Decatur,
Skinner's political mentor is Gov.
ment, not amending, and that Reilly
Ill., and graduated from Yale Univer-
James R. Thompson of Illinois, who
should not participate in any effort to
sity and Harvard Law School, devoted
helped deliver the state to Bush in
change the law.
his early career to urban policy. He
both the primary and the general elec-
was associate director of the Urban
Cheers From Sierra Club
tion. Their association began in 1971
Policy Center from 1968 to 1970 and
when Skinner worked for then-U.S.
However, most environmentalists
received a master's degree in urban
Attorney Thompson; together they
praised Reilly's choice and dismissed
planning from Columbia University in
successfully prosecuted former Gov.
such objections as quibbles about his
1971.
Otto Kerner for corruption. It was
purity. "He kept his organization in
A senior staff member of the
Thompson who named Skinner to the
the fold as a bona fide environmental
President's Council on Environmental
chairmanship of the Regional Trans-
group, while maintaining a good rela-
Quality from 1970 to 1972, Reilly be-
portation Authority of Northeastern
tionship with industry," said J. Mi-
came an expert in such areas as
Illinois, the nation's second-largest
chael McCloskey, chairman of the Si-
coastal zone management and mineral
erra Club.
mass transportation system.
leasing. He then served as executive
As DOT secretary, Skinner will
Reilly himself pointed out that, if
director of the Rockefeller Task Force
confirmed, he would be the first EPA
need all the political prowess he has.
on Land Use and Urban Growth.
One contentious issue he will confront
administrator to be plucked directly
Since 1973, Reilly has been presi-
from an environmental group. Some
immediately is drug-testing. Recently,
dent of The Conservation Foundation,
DOT issued regulations to require
industry representatives privately ex-
founded in 1948. In 1985 he engi-
some 4 million transportation workers
pressed surprise at the choice.
neered a merger between his organiza-
to submit to random drug tests. The
The coming years will be any-
tion and the World Wildlife Fund, and
thing but the "life of Riley" for the
rules have been challenged by orga-
became president of both.
nized labor, and on Dec. 19 a federal
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Dec. 24, 1988-PAGE 3579
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
of Torrance
2900 Carson Street
Torrance, Ca. 90503
(213) 320-9920
January 20, 1989
ya-1
President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsy lvania Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20050
Dear Mr. President:
Enclosed are letters that the seventh grade religion class of First Lutheran
Schools have written. These students have been studying "God's Creation,"
and these letters express their concern about environmental issues that face
our country and the world.
I hope you will enjoy these letters and are as impressed as I was that the
youth of our nation can be committed to a clean and safe environment.
You might also find it interesting to know that in our school election, you
were elected as president by a wide margin. Congratulations on your
election and inauguration.
Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor David A. Deutscher
First Lutheran Church
President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President,
would you please do something about the pollution. I
am not saying you're not doing a bad job but could you Ant a
little more effort into it. Couldn't you take the toxic waste
and ship it into space. And the trash at dumps? Could you spend
some money to see if you can take the trash out of the water. 7 Can
you raise, the fine for littering and get some more voleenters to pick
up trash. Can you invent a chemical that dissovles smog Or at least
make it so no one can see it, I know you're trying the best you
can but people aren't responding I'm glad you won the election
Sincerly,
Tom Caring ton