EPA probe reveals scandalizing internal memos

-Bane
02-26-2008, 11:04 PM
EPA probe reveals scandalizing internal memos (http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_8369571)

Front Page Article (http://www.tribalwar.com/news/5308-EPA-probe-reveals-scandalizing-internal-memos.html)

A Environmental Protection Agency official warned her boss, EPA chief Stephen Johnson, that if he denied California's bid to enforce its own tailpipe emissions rules, the agency's credibility "will be irreparably damaged" and Johnson would have to think about resigning.

Margot Oge, the head of EPA's office of transportation and air quality, also told Administrator Johnson in an Oct. 17 memo that "there is no legal or technical justification for denying this," despite "alternative interpretations that have been suggested by the automakers."

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California [has a] long history of receiving EPA waivers - only two of the state's 95 requests had been even partially denied.

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Next pres may overturn decision because Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and

KnightMare
02-26-2008, 11:09 PM
this isnt really gaming/tech news

Tribalbob
02-26-2008, 11:10 PM
that doesn't mean it's not news of interest to me.

Hazee Daze
02-27-2008, 08:55 PM
Big oil + big auto, whaddya expect?