YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for answers about the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Mary Gade, formerly EPA's regional administrator for the Midwest.
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
By Kate Sheppard Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today, calling for information about the circumstances surrounding the ouster of Mary Gade, the administrator of the agency's Midwest regional office. Gade was allegedly fired after attempting to force Dow Chemical to clean up dioxin pollution around...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
APWASHINGTON (Map, News) - Two lawmakers pressured the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday for information surrounding the resignation of a top EPA administrator in the Midwest.Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., asked the EPA for any documents related to the departure of Mary Gade and her work to enforce the clean up of dioxin contamination near...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... According to a report in Friday's Chicago Tribune, the EPA administrator for the Midwest region, Mary Gade, said she was told to quit or be fired by June 1. She resigned. Gade had been pressuring Dow for almost a year to get the chemical company to clean up chemical contamination in Michigan. Dioxin, produced as a byproduct of some chemical manufacturing or formed from burning...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
He added that the forced resignation of EPA regional administrator Mary Gade, who had been investigating dioxin contamination in Michigan by Dow Chemical, "smacks of the U.S. Attorney scandal at the Justice Department last summer." Like the nine U.S. attorneys the White House fired, Gade was well regarded and had received strong performance evaluations, he said, adding, "her forced...
