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EPA Administrator testifies to Congress on refusal of California emission law waiver
28th Febuary 2008
The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen Johnson, refused to tell a Senate Environment Committee hearing yesterday whether the White House had sought to influence his decision denying California and other U.S. states a waiver needed to implement their tailpipe emissions reduction legislation.
Appearing before the Senate Environment Committee, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson deflected repeated questions from Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., about any White House role in the decision in December blocking California and at least 16 other states from implementing the emissions reductions.
The Californian Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer had a day earlier released excerpts of internal EPA documents showing that senior staff believed Johnson should grant the California waiver, find a compromise, or consider resigning. Congressional Democrats contend that the waiver refusal was politically motivated.
(Detroit News/AP, 28 February)
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