40th Birthday of the EPA
The 40th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency is the subject of an opinion piece in Environmental Science & Technology, co-authored by Deb Swackhamer, University of Minnesota Water Resources Center co-director. The article, "EPA at 40: Bringing Environmental Protection into the 21st Century," traces the history of the EPA from a protector of public lands to the country's most powerful force for environmental protection. The article calls for even greater proactive environmental leadership on the part of the EPA through more agency integration and increased public discourse of the risks and trade-offs of decisions facing us. Swackhamer, School of Public Health professor and Humphrey Institute's Charles M. Denny Jr. Chair of Science, Technology, and Public Policy who is also chair of the EPA's Science Advisory Board, co-authored the piece with Joseph Fiksel, Ohio State University; Thomas Graedel, Yale University; Alan Hecht, Environmental Protection Agency; David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Gary Sayler, University of Tennessee; Peter Senge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Thomas Theis, University of Illinois. The article will be published in the December 2009 print edition of Environmental Science & Technology and can be read online here.
