Ruckelshaus, 85, has emerged over the past year as a fierce critic of current EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. He compared Pruitt’s zeal for deregulation to Anne Gorsuch, Reagan’s first EPA administrator, whom Ruckelshaus replaced after she resigned and was held in contempt of Congress. Anne Gorsuch did not, and I don’t think Pruitt does either. William Ruckelshaus, former EPA administratorWhen Ruckelshaus returned to the EPA in 1983, employees greeted him with a banner proclaiming: “How do you spell relief? “Not just surreptitiously reinstating what the Trump administration took away.”Kenneth Garrett/Woodfin Camp via Getty Images William Ruckelshaus at the EPA in the 1980s.

Source: Huffington Post January 27, 2018 12:22 UTC