Bush Picks Johnson to Head EPA

NPR | By Elizabeth Shogren

Published March 4, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

President Bush taps a career civil servant and biologist to become the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Stephen Johnson has worked at the EPA for 24 years, most recently as the agency's acting head. He will be the first career EPA official to head the agency.

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