Costle, Douglas
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Name (Latin)
Costle, Douglas
Other forms of name
Costle, Douglas M
Date of birth
1939-07-27
Date of death
2019-01-13
Place of birth
Long Beach (Calif.)
Place of death
McLean (Va.)
Place of residence/headquarters
McLean (Va.)
Field of activity
Environmental policy Law--Study and teaching
Associate group
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Vermont Law School
Vermont Law School (1987 - 1987)
Occupation
Public officers Deans (Education)
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Douglas Michael
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- U. S. Cong. Sen. Com. on Envir. and Pub. Wks.Nominations ... 1977 (subj.) t.p. (Douglas Costle; to be Admin. of EPA)
- Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 22, 2019(Douglas Costle; Douglas M. Costle, an early architect of the Environmental Protection Agency who became the regulatory agency's top administrator during the Carter administration and helped initiate the "Superfund" program to clean up hazardous-waste sites, died Jan. 13 [2019] at his home in McLean, Va. He was 79. After working for the Justice Department's civil rights division in the mid-1960s, Mr. Costle later was named to a White House advisory council with the aim of reorganizing the executive branch. He was instrumental in outlining the scope of an independent agency designed to coordinate efforts to enforce environmental laws to prevent pollution and protect citizens' health. President Richard M. Nixon formally launched the EPA by executive order in December 1970. Mr. Costle was a consultant to the agency during its infancy and later directed the state environmental protection commission in Connecticut before returning to Washington. He was named EPA director in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Douglas Michael Costle was born July 27, 1939, in Long Beach, Calif. After leaving the EPA in 1981, he was an executive with a company that developed environmental testing methods. He was dean of the independent Vermont Law School from 1987 to 1991, helping build one of the country's premier programs in environmental law. He settled in McLean in 2003)
Wikipedia description:
Douglas Michael Costle (July 27, 1939 – January 13, 2019) was one of the architects of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he subsequently served President Jimmy Carter as EPA Administrator from 1977 to 1981.
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