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Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals (1996) / Chapter Skim
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John Wise and Peter Truitt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pages 431-436

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From page 431...
... As a charter member of the EPA, having started in 1971, and a career executive in Region 9, in San Francisco, I want to offer you a perspective on this span of time and specifically on the evolution on environmental policy, which many of our commentaries this morning spoke about. I will be joined in my presentation by Peter Truitt, who is the manager of EPA's National Goals Project, who will outline the agency's work in progress on the national environmental goals.
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From page 432...
... I want to be so bold as to suggest that environmental protection is one of the most successful governmental interventions in the modern era. When we look at our accomplishments in the first 25 years, I think we should acknowledge and celebrate those successes, which incidentally happens to be Mr.
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From page 433...
... And we need to set ambitious but realistic national targets for environmental improvement and measure our progress towards those goals. Now I will outline the purpose and history of our National Environmental Goals Project, then ask my colleague Peter Truitt to provide a more detailed overview of the proposed goals.
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From page 434...
... There are now 15 goals. They cover clean air, climate change risk reduction, stratospheric ozone layer restoration, clean waters, healthy terrestrial ecosystems, healthy indoor environments, safe drinking water, safe food, safe workplaces, preventing accidental releases (like Chernobyl and Exxon Valdez)
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From page 435...
... Given the kind of specifics in this report, it will make for a very educated, enlivening discussion about what Americans are trying to accomplish in environmental protection. John mentioned that earlier public reviewers thought the report should be "visionary." We are proposing the following vision statement for the U.S.
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From page 436...
... When these goals become generally accepted as part of the country's environmental agenda, we will then craft EPA's strategic plan to chart a course to the milestones. We'll use that strategy with the milestone targets as a base for our annual planning and budgeting, and to develop our performance agreements with state and local agencies -- which as I mentioned earlier, carry the majority of the load in terms of environmental protection at a state and local level.
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