EPA Region 6 Administrator resigns over “crucify” remarks
Al Armendariz, the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator for the region that includes Oklahoma, has resigned from his post after coming under fire from lawmakers for comments about industry regulation.
Last week, longtime EPA critic and Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, made reference to Armendariz’s comments about “crucifying” some companies in the oil and gas industry to make an example out of them for others. Armendariz made the comments in 2010. He apologized for them last week. The Obama White House defended the EPA’s regulatory approach last week but distanced itself from Armendariz’s remarks.
Armendariz said he was resigning so controversy over the comments wouldn’t be a distraction to work at the EPA. The Associated Press has more here.
Meanwhile, here’s the bio page for the acting administrator for Region 6, Sam Coleman.
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good ridance. the epa is a self-perpetuating group of tree-huggers whose usefulness is questionable. when first established, it did clean up some areas that needed to be addressed, but now, they just keep coming up with unnecessary laws, hire more people to enforce the new laws, come up with more new unnecessary laws, hire more people, etc,etc. like all of washington, just a bunch of lying, crooked, sleazy bums. throw them all out.
Should’ve happened months ago, what he and the EPA did to Range Resources should not happen in the United States of America, that’s the kind of thing you expect from third world Banana Republics.