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EPA Nominee Withdraws for not implementing part of a federal acid rain pro­ ™W^hiX°n-1’resident George W. Bush’s n^ BUSH ChoiCG feCCd gram that would have required power plants in the nee to head enforcement at the Environment Protec- state to spend millions of dollars on new pollutant tion Agency withdrew his name yesterday after en- i • j • abating technology. countering Senate opposition over his roles in oppos- Pl I O OTTllDO 11 O'O Some Senate Democrats and environmental ing some air cleanup measures as Ohio’s top environ- groups seized on the report as ammunition in their mental officer. campaign to defeat Schregardus’ nomination. “It is clear to me ... that my nomination will not Schregardus had not been asked by the administra- “I am disappointed that Don has withdrawn,” said be considered by the U.S. Senate in a timely man- tion to withdraw his name. “We continue to believe Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio). “The fact is, howev­ ner,” Donald Schregardus said in a letter yesterday that Donald Schregardus would have made an excel- er, I do not believe he would have received a fair to Bush. lent enforcement chief at EPA,” Womack said. “He hearing.” Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), chairman of the Sen­ made a difficult personal decision in withdrawing A Labor Department administrative law judge ate Environmental and Public Works Committee, his name, and obviously we’re disappointed that ruled in a whistleblower case last year that Schregar- had promised to spend months scrutinizing Schregar- someone as qualified as he will not be given the op- dus had interfered with an investigation of a cluster dus’ record as head of Ohio’s EPA before allowing a portunity to serve.” of leukemia cases at public schools in Marion, Ohio. Senate vote on the nomination. On Aug. 1 the Senate panel Jeffords chairs ap- Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Charles Schregardus said in his letter to Bush that he re­ proved Schregardus’ nomination to be the EPA’s as- Schumer (D-N.Y.) had said they would block a vote mained proud of his record, which included 17 years sistant administrator for enforcement and compli- by the full Senate on Schregardus. They cited his ef- with the federal EPA and eight years as director of ance, with dissenting votes from four Democrats. forts to win the dismissal of lawsuits by several Ohio’s EPA. A month later the EPA released a report faulting states to force power plants to reduce pollutants White House spokeswoman Anne Womack said the Ohio agency when it was headed by Schregardus blamed for acid rain in the Northeast.

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