Revealed: Bush EPA chief says she quit because of Cheney

John Byrne, Raw Story

Christine Todd Whitman is the media darling of talk shows, the conservative former governor of New Jersey and head of President George W. Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency who quit the Bush Administration to “spend more time with her family.”

Evidently, that’s not true.

In a groundbreaking article today by the Washington Post, the paper alleges that Whitman left the Administration because they pressured her to accept pro-industry coal power plant rules which threatened ghoulish levels of air pollution.

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