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When I attended my first International City/County Management Association (ICMA) conference in 1990 in Fort Worth, Texas, I wandered into a large session where speakers railed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the tsunami of regulations that were threatening the nation's localities with unreasonable and unfunded environmental regulations.
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Going Green
When I attended my first International City/County Management Association (ICMA) conference in 1990 in Fort Worth, Texas, I wandered into a large session where speakers railed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the tsunami of regulations that were threatening the nation's localities with unreasonable and unfunded environmental regulations. One passionate speaker after another related horror stories of expensive and unreasonable policy based on "bad" or incomplete science.
ICMAs response was the Environmental Mandates Task Force. A meeting in Washington attracted an overflow audience of angry and committed managers who wanted to push back the activist tide that had produced a plethora of legislation in the 1970s that was now beginning to have an actual impact . . . an impact that cost significant amounts of money!We were being forced to change our priorities to the environmental priorities of distant "bureaucrats" (or was it our elected federal representatives?). We were being told to limit impacts on wetlands, reduce emissions, and protect water supplies from lead leaching from ancient pipes. We did not like it. Moreover, many of our most vo...See the full content of this document
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