Why give AMERICAN energy producers a hard time??? hmmmmmmmmmmmm, wary interesting,,,llol
By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com
Saying he had become a distraction, a senior Environmental Protection Agency official who used the word "crucify" to describe how the EPA enforced laws in the oil industry resigned on Monday.
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"My continued service will distract you and the agency," Al Armendariz said in his resignation letter to EPA chief Lisa Jackson.
"I regret comments I made several years ago that do not in any way reflect my work as regional administrator," Armendariz said in his letter.
Armendariz, who was head of the EPA's South Central office, came under fire from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who was informed of the two-year-old video last week and launched an inquiry.
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Inhofe on Monday welcomed the resignation but said the EPA's "crucifixion philosophy" continues.
"His choice of words revealed the truth about the war that EPA has been waging on American energy producers under President Obama," Inhofe said in a statement.
The EPA, in response to a request from
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Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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