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EPA official resigns over 'crucify' comment
Bye, jerk-face...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region has resigned after Republicans targeted him over remarks made two years ago when he used the word "crucify" to describe how he would go after companies violating environmental laws.

In a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson sent Sunday, Al Armendariz says he regrets his words and stresses that they do not reflect his work as administrator of the five-state region including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Actually, they reflect his work perfectly...
Armendariz, who holds a doctorate in environmental engineering, apologized for his remarks last week.
He was sorry if we were offended. That's not an apology.
Whaddya yhave to do to get a doctorate in "Environmental Engineering?" How does an examining board assess an engineered environment?
A senior administration official told The Associated Press that he has since received death threats.
Prove it. Put those threats into the public realm, and have the FBI investigate each and every one. If they prove a single death threat to be real, find and prosecute the person who uttered it. Until I call horse-hockey...
His resignation was effective Monday, when he informed his senior staff.

"I have come to the conclusion that my continued service will distract you and the agency from its important work," Armendariz wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Because even the Obama administration has its limit for the number of quality of doofuses it can employ. And they already have Biden...
He's six or seven of them...
Republicans in Congress had called for Armendariz' firing, after Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe highlighted the May 2010 speech last week as proof of what he refers to as EPA's assault on energy, particularly the technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

At a town hall meeting in Washington on Friday, Jackson had said only that she would continue to review the case, calling Armendariz' words "inflammatory" and "wrong". President Obama appointed Armendariz in November 2009, at the urging of Texas-based environmental groups. He is one of a few Latinos in senior leadership at the EPA.
But he's part of the usual gang of leftie environmentalists who canoodle their way into power.
The regional administrator's words "don't comport with either this administration's policy on energy, our policy at EPA on environmental enforcement, nor do they comport with our record as well," Jackson said.

The EPA, perhaps more than any other agency, has found itself in the GOP's crosshairs over its regulation of the gases blamed for global warming, steps it has taken to limit air pollution from coal-fired power plants, and its increased regulation of fracking, which is responsible for a gas drilling boom. Republicans, including presidential contender Mitt Romney -- who has called for Jackson herself to be fired -- have blamed the agency for high gasoline prices and clamping down on American energy.
Get used to it boys and girls, at least until President Romney and new EPI Administrator Palin cleans the house...

Posted by: Steve White 2012-04-30
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=343769