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Captured, Ep. 3 teaser: Rita Lavelle heads the Superfund

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September 29, 2022

In today's excerpt from the podcast Captured from WBUR Podcasts and Here & Now, we hear from former Superfund head under President Ronald Reagan, Rita Lavelle, and about the resistance she faced when she came to Washington.

This segment aired on September 29, 2022.

Ep. 1 Poison in the water: When the Reagan administration’s EPA met resistance from its own staff
Ep. 2 Operation Save EPA: Why — and how — EPA staffers leaked documents during the Reagan administration
Ep. 3 Rita: When the Reagan administration tapped an unlikely candidate to take care of toxic waste
Ep. 4 Contempt: How Reagan's EPA head became the 1st cabinet-level official cited for contempt of Congress
Ep. 5 Permanent capture: What a decades-old scandal at the EPA tell us about power in Washington today

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