Six different former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, including one who worked for the current Bush administration, have incredibly harsh words for the president. A representative quote:
Agency heads during five Republican administrations, including the current one, criticized the Bush White House for what they described as a failure of leadership...Posted by jimj at January 19, 2006 09:08 AM | TrackBackLee Thomas, Ruckelshaus' successor in the Reagan administration, said that "if the United States doesn't deal with those kinds of issues in a leadership role, they're not going to get dealt with. So I'm very concerned about this country and this agency."
Bill Reilly, the EPA administrator under the first President Bush, echoed that assessment.
"The time will come when we will address seriously the problem of climate change, and this is the agency that's best equipped to anticipate it," he said.
Christie Whitman, the first of three EPA administrators in the current Bush administration, said people obviously are having "an enormous impact" on the earth's warming.