environmental post

President Bush will soon name a professional conservationist to the State Department's top environmental post, Administration officials said today.

A Buddhist-backed party holds the environmental post, and Mr. Hosokawa was careful to appoint three women.

Leading the board as it reviews the decision is Ms. Schaefer, who served in various environmental posts in the Reagan and Bush Administrations.

Mr. White, 54, of Centerport, has held top environmental posts with Suffolk County and the Town of Huntington.

Maneka Gandhi, who broke with the family after the death of her husband, Sanjay Gandhi, in a plane crash in 1980, says she wants the environmental post.

She arrived in Washington with strong environmental credentials but soon found herself greatly outnumbered by the lobbyists and right-wingers whom President Bush put in nearly every other key environmental post.

Environmental posts are rapidly becoming fixtures in corporate offices, with the Exxon Corporation and the Walt Disney Company recently having established environmentalists in top corporate posts.

On the face of it, Mr. Leavitt's record as governor suggests that he will fit right in with the antiregulatory types who occupy every other important environmental post in the administration.

Bush Nominee Blocked Senate leaders agreed to send back to the White House without a vote the nomination of the President's choice for the top environmental post at the Agriculture Department.

President Bush's nominee to the Agriculture Department's leading environmental post asked the White House today to withdraw his name from consideration after it became clear that he faced insurmountable opposition in the Senate.

In an embarrassing defeat for the White House, the Senate minority leader acknowledged today that the Republicans lacked the votes to confirm President Bush's choice for the Agriculture Department's leading environmental post.

Six years later, Mr. Boehlert again found himself at war with his fellow Republicans - only this time he clashed with a president, a vice president and the ideologues and lobbyists they had installed in nearly every key environmental post.

Environmentalists have generally given high marks for some of Mr. Cuomo's recent selections in important environmental posts, including Mr. Jorling at the conservation department and Peter A. Bradford, the chairman of the state's Public Service Commission.

Taken together, these two agreements have done much to atone for the Governor's mediocre environmental record during 1995, when he appointed industry lobbyists to key environmental posts, diverted funds targeted for toxic dump cleanups and attempted to repeal a ban on a dangerous pesticide.

Ms. Norton is one of two women Mr. Bush has chosen to run the most important environmental posts in Washington, the other being Christie Whitman, the New Jersey governor, who will be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Recommended Candidates Stanley Hill, a member of the advisory committee that recommended candidates to Mr. Dinkins for the transportation and environmental posts, said that Mr. Sandler had been among the three or four people recommended for the transportation post.

We knew that bad things would happen when President Bush filled many of his important environmental posts with right-wing activists and industry lobbyists who had spent their careers criticizing the laws they were now being told to uphold and representing industries they were now being told to regulate.

In fact, Mr. Durnil acknowledges in "The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist" that he possessed absolutely no qualifications for one of the continent's senior environmental posts, other than having served as Republican party chairman in Indiana and cultivating a close political friendship with former Vice President Dan Quayle.