Anne Gorsuch’s first order of business: slashing the EPA budget to fit Reagan’s idea of small government edict. But a group of bureaucrats both in and outside of the agency unite to leak documents to the press.
The resistance’s plan seems to be working. The public and Congress are alerted to the directives amiss at the EPA. But then, the White House brings on a deputy to oversee hazardous waste at the EPA: Rita Lavelle.
Congress wants documents from the EPA about the clean-up of toxic waste sites, including the Stringfellow Acid Pits in Glen Avon, California. But Anne Gorsuch won’t hand them over.
Congressional hearings about the management of the EPA lead to firings, dramatic resignations, and for one person, a prison sentence. But in the long run, did the bureaucrats and government workers who plotted and leaked documents to “save the EPA” get what they want?