Next generation Sustainability Governance Design Assignment

About this Course

An Added Perspective...

Do You Want to be an Active

Change Maker?

Being a good Change Maker requires more than:

 A Vision

 Passion

You also need to be SMART about change

(So this is a good course to take!)

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EPA is a good Institution to Study

For Getting Smart about Change

 EPA as an institution is set up to be a Change Maker of

Industry, Public Behavior, etc.

 EPA has been a target for change itself from inside and

outside.

 To be a change-maker of institutions, it helps to:

 Understand the institution you want to change

 Have a vision/understanding of what changes are needed and why

 Study instances when change has taken place and when it hasn’t

and why.

 This course ( and Sponsors) can help you develop your

change-making skills by focusing on these three areas.

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Understanding EPA’s Roots

ASU January 25, 2021

Chuck Elkins

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EPA was not Created from Scratch

It was a Reorganization

of Existing Programs

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So…In The Beginning

Before there was an EPA,

What Was Happening?

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

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The impact of DDT and other chemicals on the Ecology of our planet

Pittsburg, PA: 1940 during the day

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Donora Pennsylvania,1948

21 people died

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1970: The Year

of the

Environment

First Presidential Environmental Message

February 1970

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Earth Day, 1970

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William D. Ruckelshaus—

First Administrator

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See video in

Session 3

uploads

EPA, as a new agency, was created in 1970

 But EPA was created by reorganization of multiple existing

programs:

 Water pollution (Interior Department)

 Drinking water (Health, Education and Welfare)

 Air pollution (Health, Education and Welfare)

 Pesticide Regulation (Agriculture Department, FDA, Fish and

Wildlife)

 Solid Waste (Health, Education and Welfare)

 Radiation Control ( Atomic Energy Agency, Health, Education, and

Welfare)

 $1.4 Billion Budget and 5800 Employees 15

60 Years of Institutional Growth of

Pollution Control Organizations

 Early 1960’s: Small local and state programs (air, water, etc.)

 Late 1960’s: Federal technical assistance programs

 1970’s: Federalization of the regulatory programs

 Clean Air Act

 Clean Water Act

 RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)

 Superfund

 Toxic Substances Control Act

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Air and

Radiation Water

Chemical

Safety Land

Enforce

-ment

--Stationary

--Mobile

--Atmospheric

--Radiation

--Drinking

--Wastewater

--Wetlands

--Pesticides

--Toxics

--Superfund

--RCRA

--Emergency

--Brownfield

--Tanks

--Federal

--Civil

--Criminal

Other

--Policy

--Research

--Civil Rights

--International

--Indians

--Support

EPA Headquarters Organization 2020

EPA at its Creation --Air Pollution

--Radiation

--Drinking

--Pollution --Pesticides --Solid Waste --International

--Research

--Indians

My Most Terrifying

Moment at EPA

Early Challenge for Risk Managers:

Regulation of Carcinogens

 Congress: “Delaney Clause”: Zero tolerance for carcinogens in food additives

 Clean Air: Vinyl Chloride

 Zero emissions (= zero risk) or

 “acceptable” risk such as

 1 in a million

 1 in 100,000

Covid-19 Every Governor, Mayor, Individual =

A Risk Manager

Mississippi Chickens

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