EPA head of Michigan forced out - Chicago Tribune

02 May 2008 23:17  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--The head regulator of an environmental office in Michigan was forced to resign, following a prolonged dispute over dioxin contamination near a Dow Chemical plant, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune on Friday.

Mary Gade was the region 5 administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose jurisdiction included Michigan. The Tribune quoted Gade as saying that she resigned after the national office stripped her of her authority. The national office then told Gade that if she did not quit, she would be fired by 1 June, according to the report.

The Tribune quoted an EPA spokesman, who said that Gade was placed on administrative leave until 1 June.

Since the middle of 2007, the EPA and Dow have been in discussions on what the company must do to clean up the Tittabawassee River that runs alongside the chemical company’s 1,900-acre headquarters site at Midland in east-central Michigan.

Earlier this year, the agency broke off talks with Dow over the cleanup.

By: Al Greenwood
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