At 40, EPA Touts Successes, Struggles To Adjust To Future Challenges

As EPA celebrates its 40th year, the agency is touting its successes reducing air and water pollution and outlining its approach for the next generation of environmental regulation, in which the agency will be addressing problems that were largely unforeseen at the time of its founding, such as nonpoint runoff, climate change and electronic waste disposal. But top former agency officials say the agency will have a hard time addressing these problems because Congress is unlikely to reach consensus on...