2. “Where the Rubber Hits the Road and Everything Else Hits the Fan”: A Brief Description of EPA’s Enforcement Process and the Superfund Program

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. “Where the Rubber Hits the Road and Everything Else Hits the Fan”: A Brief Description of EPA’s Enforcement Process and the Superfund Program 9
6. 3. Heavy Seas before the Maelstrom: EPA Enforcement in the 1970s 21
7. 4. Destruction, Confusion, Confrontation, and Disarray: EPA Enforcement and Congressional Oversight in the Gorsuch Era 41
8. 5. “Away from the Brink”—But Not Out of the Woods: EPA Enforcement from 1983 to 1989 62
9. 6. Modest Progress and Renewed Suspicion: EPA Enforcement in the Bush I Administration 87
10. 7. “Neither the Best of Times nor the Worst of Times”: EPA Enforcement during the Clinton Administration 104
11. 8. Suspicions, Schisms, and Partial Revival: EPA Enforcement during the Bush II Administration 140
12. 9. Lessons Learned: Some Observations on Congressional Oversight, Organizational Structure, Management Approaches, and Career Staff Trends 184
13. 10. Did Industry Capture EPA Enforcement? Captive Agency Theory and Its (Partial) Applicability 203
14. 11. EPA Enforcement in the Context of Federal Civil Service Decline 224
15. Appendix A. Persons Interviewed 232
16. Appendix B. Government Service Job Titles of Individuals Interviewed by Author 237
17. Appendix C. Standard Interview Questionnaire in Interviews Prior to 2003 244
18. Appendix D. Standard Interview Questions Asked in All Interviews Beginning in 2003 246
19. Notes 247
20. Index 305