Marianne Lamont Horinko

President Bush has decided to name Marianne Lamont Horinko, who now oversees the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program, as acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA said Thursday. Bush also has picked Stephen Johnson, now in charge of the agency's pesticides program, to be acting deputy administrator, said EPA spokeswoman Lisa Harrison. Horinko, an assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, succeeds former New Jersey Gov.

President Bush has decided to name Marianne Lamont Horinko, who now oversees the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program, as acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA said Thursday. Bush also has picked Stephen Johnson, now in charge of the agency's pesticides program, to be acting deputy administrator, said EPA spokeswoman Lisa Harrison. Horinko, an assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, succeeds former New Jersey Gov.

President Bush adopted a new tack Monday in arguing for more lenient pollution regulations, saying the need to create jobs should not take a back seat to protecting the environment. "When we talk about environmental policy in this Bush administration, we don't just talk about clean air, we also talk about jobs. We can do both," the president told cheering workers at the Monroe Edison coal-fired power plant about 40 miles south of Detroit.

As she stood in a pelting rain, holding a picture of her dead son, Rosemary Cain was ready to block traffic and be arrested at ground zero. She and other activists who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 were protesting plans to build shops and a train station where the twin towers stood. This was sacred ground, they insisted at last week's demonstration, and New York Gov. George E. Pataki had broken his pledge to protect it from development.