Since he denied California a waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions back in December, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson has emerged as a late-inning villain of Bush administration critics. Now four Democratic Senators from the Environment and Public Works Committee have said that it’s time for Johnson to end his hairsplitting tenure. The Associated Press reports that these Senators say Johnson lied in Congressional testimony when he claimed to act independently in denying California its waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

The Senators, including Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.) the committee chairperson, are the same crew who took a fleeting look at an "unopened" email EPA sent to the White House about the need to regulate greenhouse gases. They appear to have the evidence necessary to confirm their suspicions of a toothless EPA.-MB

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