You said that early on your relationship with the President was good. Of course, the environmental press harpooned him for that later on. Looking back with as much objectivity as I can muster, he kept his promise. He was equally generous with the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the environmental components of the Interior Department budget. He increased waste clean-up funds in the Energy and Defense Departments by several orders of magnitude.
Enforcement is the third area.
If a President is trimming or an Administration not on the level with the environment, enforcement is where you'll see it. We set records for having put more people in jail for environmental crimes on our watch than in the whole previous history of the Agency. We also assessed more fines than in the previous 18-year history of the Agency. We vastly increased the settlements under the Superfund Law precisely because we were enforcing the hell out of that law. I took 500 people out of one part of the program and put them into enforcement precisely to create that effect and it worked.