Reid, Kenneth

Kenneth I. G. Reid Roger Kust Tetra Chemicals... 

Kenneth 1. G. Reid, Tetra Chemicals, Houston. TX http //www.tetratcc. cnm/nav.htinl, Calcium Chloride... 

Kenneth S. Kurani, Thomas S. Turrentine, Reid R. Heffner, and Christopher Congleton... 

Clean water advocates had only scorn for the existing system of state water pollution control and demanded federal intervention. State capitals had long been under the sway of business interests, and the threat of moving operations to another jurisdiction was a potent counter to unwelcome oversight. A leader of the Izaak Walton League, Kenneth Reid, used his experience as a Pennsylvania fish commissioner to illustrate this point ... 

Kenneth Reid, executive director of the Izaak Walton League and leading advocate of water pollution control in the 1930s and 1940s. (Courtesy of the Izaak Walton League of America.)... 

In retrospect, the 1948 act is often described as a forerunner of today s complex regulatory system, the first federal law to address water pollution comprehensively. But it was, at best, an opportunity missed. The severe verdict pronounced by Kenneth Reid— 5 years hence we will be forced to admit that the present bill was a failure 25—turned out wrong only in the timing. Like the pesticide act enacted the previous year, the Water Pollution Control Act manifested the federal government s refusal to invoke its powers against the growing problem of chemical pollution. ... 

The technical contributions made to the development of hydrophobically modified nonionic water-soluble polymers by several Hercules and Aqualon workers are gratefully acknowledged. Particular mention is made of contributions made by George C. Harris, Albert R. Reid, Richard D. Royce, Kathryn G. Griffith, Dianne P. Leipold, Lisa A. Burmeister, Robert A. Gelman, Howard G. Barth, Carol A. Steiner, and Kenneth E. Steller. We are also thankful to Ernst K. Just and Thomas G. Majewicz for their comments and suggestions. 

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