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Magazine Article
Assessing the Ruins: Environmental Protection Agency veterans look for the agency's soul amid the relics of ancient cultures
1995
Overview
[Bill Gillespie] runs the Office of Strategic Integration, which he hopes will turn the EPA into a bad-guy database, uncovering industrial environmental criminals. The group's job is to identify inspection targets, blow the whistle and lead the way for enforcement to follow. They recently nabbed a Conoco refinery as if it were an undercover sting operation. The number of corporations they haven't caught yet is staggering. He says it's an allocation problem. \"You could scrape away 50 percent of the government jobs and America would be just fine,\" Gillespie says. \"Most people in government actually think they're serving a meaningful purpose, and that's what's scary. Instead of doing whatever it is we need to do, government is usually doing nothing but increasing its staffing and budget.\" Gillespie joined early, with [DON PATTON FALLS] in Washington. He swapped a Defense Department position for an enforcement job with the EPA. \"When we hit a juncture and started working in grants and subsidies we made a big mistake. We should be strictly an enforcement branch. If you're doing something illegal we should have the jurisdiction to go in and slap the cuffs on you and take you to court, not help you out with a grant. The EPA has 100 people working nationwide in criminal investigations and 18,000 doing other stuff. I'm sure most of them can't figure out what they're doing. Can you imagine if we had 18,000 working in enforcement?\" \"No, really. This is a second wave of environmental enlightenment.\" [Jack Bowles] smiles, fighting off the wave from [DENNIS MARKER]. \"The EPA is a good organization. It's the most effective environmental organization in the world.\" He pauses. \"Although there's nothing to compare it to.\"
Publisher
Earth Action Network, Inc
