WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Host Dave Stewart welcomes Professor A. James Barnes, professor in Law and SPEA at Indiana University and specializes in Environmental Law and Public Policy. During the first segment, Professor Barnes tells how he came to Washington as an assistant to William Ruckelshaus, who became the first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, with Jim Barnes serving as chief of staff. From those days of ‘being akin to a mouse on the wall’, Jim Barnes relates how he learned the ropes of being in government and how he was asked back into U.S. Government as a Presidential Appointee during the Reagan years in the USDA and EPA. In the 2nd segment, Barnes gives an overview of environmental law from then to now, and how the Clean Air Act and other accomplishments of the Nixon and Reagan era has helped our environment. In the 3rd segment, Professor Barnes discusses his tenure as Dean of the School of SPEA here at Indiana University from 1988-2000, and provides a call to action to environmentalists on a global scale. The EPA was created to provide a holistic approach to the governmental protection of our shared natural resources, and, in this Interchange interview, Professor Barnes provides a holistic viewpoint of the process of environmentalism and public policy.
