A proposal for the new Interior chief.(Opinion)(United States Department of the Interior)(Lynn Scarlett) From: Waste News | Date: March 27, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Robin Ingenthron

Soon, Lynn Scarlett, former executive of the Reason Foundation, will be acting secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, replacing Gale Norton. Scarlett wrote reports critical of state recycling goals in the 1990s, and was a main source for John Tierney's 1996 New York Times article, "Recycling is Garbage.''

It will be great to have this free market advocate fully in charge of the agency responsible for federal land mining and forestry leases. The agency is also a de facto administrator of the Superfund program (run by the EPA, but ...

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