Posts tagged with 'EPA'

TPMtv: Stonewall Johnson

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 27 2008 03:40 PM | PERMALINK

Stonewall Johnson

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Stonewall Johnson was born on January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He went on to become one of the most revered Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Wait, that's Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Johnson was born on March 21, 1951 in Washington D. C. and went on to become one of the most controversial and obstinate Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose testimony before Congress has given him the inside track for this...
TPMtv: "I Will Believe the Scientists"

POSTED BY , JUNE 26 2007 01:21 PM | PERMALINK

"I Will Believe the Scientists"

Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman went before a House subcommittee Monday to testify about the EPA's reports on the air quality of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, reports which have come under extreme criticism for apparent contradictions and questionable revisions by the White House. Whitman seemed to rest contentedly however on the reassurances she pushed at the time, despite the number of workers and residents that...
TPMtv: Enviro-Bamboozler James Connaughton

POSTED BY , JUNE 21 2007 12:59 PM | PERMALINK

Enviro-Bamboozler James Connaughton

On Wednesday a Senate subcommittee held a hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's response to 9/11 and the air quality in Lower Manhattan, a response that has come under intense scrutiny after a 2003 Inspector General report revealed that the Bush Administration had altered EPA press releases. Today we bring you a highlight reel of the testimony of the administration's point man in that process, enviro-bamboozler James Connaughton.
- White House edited EPA's...