EPA Administrator Must Resign!

Friends of the Earth calls for the resignation of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, citing a pattern of ignoring scientific recommendations, violating legal mandates regarding greenhouse gas emissions, and retaliating against whistleblowers.

• Stephen Johnson is accused of violating the Clean Air Act and ignoring a Supreme Court ruling in Mass v EPA by refusing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants.
• The EPA Administrator allegedly overruled unanimous recommendations from agency scientists to tighten smog limits in March 2008 and ignored a commissioned study to implement weak mercury emission limits for power plants in March 2005.
• Johnson is alleged to have allowed political interference from Vice President Dick Cheney to downplay the health impacts of global warming in congressional testimony in October 2007.
• The document claims Johnson obstructed state-level climate action by refusing a December 2007 waiver for California and 16 other states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, despite staff stating there was no legal justification for the refusal.
• The EPA is accused of retaliating against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo after she reported a U.S. corporation's role in poisoning a community in South Africa.

APA

Fox, A. (2008). EPA Administrator Must Resign! Friends of the Earth. https://foe.org/blog/2008-04-epa-administrator-must-resign/

Chicago

Fox, Audrey. EPA Administrator Must Resign! Friends of the Earth, 2008. https://foe.org/blog/2008-04-epa-administrator-must-resign/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Fox |first1=Audrey |title=EPA Administrator Must Resign! |publisher=Friends of the Earth |date=18 April 2008 |url=https://foe.org/blog/2008-04-epa-administrator-must-resign/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{fox2008epa, author = {Fox, Audrey}, title = {{EPA Administrator Must Resign!}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth}, year = {2008}, month = apr, url = {https://foe.org/blog/2008-04-epa-administrator-must-resign/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }