Administrator Stephen Johnson
A community guide to Stephen Johnson and the Environmental Protection Agency. Stephen Johnson leads the U.S. EPA. Johnson attended Taylor University, receiving a B.A. in biology, and then received a M.S. in pathology from George... [more]
A community guide to Stephen Johnson and the Environmental Protection Agency. Stephen Johnson leads the U.S. EPA. Johnson attended Taylor University, receiving a B.A. in biology, and then received a M.S. in pathology from George Washington University. Before working for the U.S. Government, he held a number of positions in laboratory and bio-technology companies.
Region 5 Administrator for EPA resigns over war with Dow
Video: Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI) compares the firing of EPA regional administrator Mary Gade to the US Attorneys scandal on the Senate floor.
Mary Gade, the Region 5 Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, abruptly resigned…in the midst of a battle with Dow Chemical over its refusal to clean up decades-old dioxin pollution from its headquarters in Michigan. As Michael Hawthorne reported in the Chicago Tribune:
Gade told the Tribune she resigned after two aides to national EPA administrator Stephen Johnson took away her powers as regional administrator and told her to quit or be fired by June 1. He further reported that one of those officials had recently assessed her performance as “outstanding“.
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