Top EPA Official Suggests Need For Law To Force Agency Sustainability

A top EPA career official is suggesting a need to enact a law empowering the agency to pursue sustainability such as advancing new environmental technologies and convening the public and private sectors to revolutionize environmental protection, saying the lack of a mandate means such efforts fail every time an administration changes. “Our fundamental statutes are what we always go back to as the pendulum swings” between Democratic and Republican administrations, said Tom Tyler, chief of staff at EPA’s Office of...