Three Senators Call For EPA Chief to Resign
Democratic senators called for the resignation of Stephen Johnson, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying he sided with polluters instead of fighting global warming and other ecological problems.
The three senators, all active in the climate change debate, also asked the U.S. attorney general to investigate whether Johnson has made false or misleading statements in sworn testimony before the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee.
“Mr. Johnson has consistently chosen special interests over the American people’s interests in protecting health and safety,” Sen. Barbara Boxer of California told reporters. “He has become a secretive and dangerous ally of polluters and we cannot stand by and allow more damage to be done.”
Boxer, who heads the environment committee, said Johnson had made damaging decisions on mercury, lead, toxic chemicals, drinking water standards, ozone air pollution and global warming.
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