Captured, Ep. 5 teaser: Reagan administration and the EPA

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October 14, 2022

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In the aftermath of an explosive scandal at the Reagan administration's EPA, agency head Anne Gorsuch Burford resigned in disgrace. So what's changed? Friday's excerpt is the fifth and final installment of the Captured podcast.

This segment aired on October 14, 2022.

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