Alvin L. Alm

He was responsible for the economic-analysis program of the EPA, to ensure that the agency would minimize the negative economic impact of its regulations.

The agency's mandate received less attention due to the rapid increase in prices resulting from the OPEC oil embargo of 1973–1974.

Ruckelshaus and Alm served through Reagan's first term, and then both left the government for the private sector after successfully stabilizing the agency.

Alm became the senior vice president of Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. in McLean, VA.[1][2][3] His final notable achievement in the government was creating a 10-year plan to clean up the nuclear dumps of the nation; a task that was thought to take nearly 70 years.

Alm and his colleagues curbed the widespread trend of degradation of the American environment, and laid a foundation for future environmental progress.