Few Bush administration figures have been as battered as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, whose face is surely on many dart boards in the offices of environmental advocacy groups. Yet environmentalists showered rare praise yesterday as the EPA reduced the maximum allowable amount of lead in the air from 1.5 micrograms to .15 micrograms.

The rule will not got into effect until eight years from now. But as the New York Times’ Felicity Barringer reports Johnson listened to environmentalists, listened to industry and then leaned with the environmental concerns. Good for him.-MB

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