EPA Administrator Whitman Resigns

Statement of Rodger Schlickeisen, President, Defenders of Wildlife

(05/21/2003) - WASHINGTON – "Today the Administration is losing a single individual, but tomorrow it's going to be the same old White House with a door wide open to polluters and corporate interests, but closed and padlocked to the public and environmental advocates. Governor Whitman deserves credit for advances on diesel emissions and PCBs in the Hudson River, and her departure could drop the White House's environmental batting average from merely horrible to off-the-charts abysmal." 

"This administration has compiled a horrifying track record, not just ignoring the environment, but aggressively working to undermine decades of laws that protect our air, water, wildlife and land. Governor Whitman appears to have occasionally bucked the anti- environmental tide all around her, but she was never able to blunt the visceral tilt in this White House toward corporate interests above all others."

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