ABSTRACT
The public's deep concern with the country's ability to compete in the world may be creating a situation that will give the next President both the political leverage and the political incentive to lead the country toward important innovations in both the strategies and management of science. Environmental protection is a field that was called into being and that is constantly being redefined by science. Anyone who looks beyond today's regulation or litigation recognizes that science is the general who commands this field. Restoring purposive consciousness to the important areas of science where it has been lost, however, probably should. Environmental regulation has developed from the paradigm of painting the back of a rat with one substance and, if a bump develops, regulating that substance through that method of exposure. There is tremendous duplication of research across the government and beyond.
