Former EPA toxic official snubs a House panel

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

March 22, 1983

Washington

Rita Lavelle, former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency's toxic waste enforcement, disobeyed a House subcommittee subpoena to testify. The panel voted to charge her with contempt of Congress. The House energy and commerce subcommittee had summoned her to ask about possible conflicts of interest in her supervision of the EPA's hazardous-waste cleanup program, known as ''Superfund.''