Burford served on Reagan’s transition team and actively sought the EPA post, reasoning that it was one of the toughest jobs in government. She was appointed head of the EPA in February 1981 and ...

The tenure of former President Ronald Reagan’s first Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Anne Gorsuch Burford, ended with firings, resignations from dozens of political appointees ...

Anne M. Gorsuch Burford, 62, the Environmental Protection Agency director who resigned under fire in 1983 during a scandal over mismanagement of a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste ...

(In the middle of the ordeal, in February, the divorced Gorsuch married Robert Burford, then-director of the Bureau of Land Management; she became known as Anne Burford.) In her 1986 memoir ...

She divorced David Gorsuch and eventually married former House Speaker Bob Burford, taking his name. Anne Burford died in 2004 from cancer at age 62. Read more: Neil Gorsuch revives his mother ...

The first time was when the EPA began. Reagan's first appointed administrator, Anne Burford, had lost the trust of the public and the confidence of Congress. There were serious questions about the ...

Anne McGill Gorsuch Burford, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is shown testifying on Capitol Hill on March 3, 1983, six days before resigning in a fight with Congress ...

The first time was when the EPA began. Reagan’s first appointed administrator, Anne Burford, had lost the trust of the public and the confidence of Congress. There were serious questions about ...