Posts Tagged ‘Washington’

EPA Update: Four Senators Tell Chief to Resign

Four Democratic senators called on EPA chief Stephen Johnson to resign yesterday: Barbara Boxer of California, who is chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. They basically accused Johnson of perjury. They also announced they’d asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to look into prosecuting him.

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July 30th, 2008 Tags: , , , ,
by Benjamin Nugent in air pollution, politics | 4 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

EPA Memo Told Employees Not to Talk to Own Inspector General

The Associated Press just published an internal memo the EPA’s chief of staff sent to managers telling them to not let staffers cooperate with the agency’s own inspector general but forward the info requests to him. In addition to the inspector general, employees aren’t supposed to talk to congressional investigators (!) or reporters (no “!”).

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July 28th, 2008 Tags: , ,
by Benjamin Nugent in air pollution, politics | 2 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >