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Grist Feature: A look at EPA administrators since the agency's founding

 
As Lisa Jackson, Barack Obama's pick to head the U.S. EPA, gears up for a new job, Grist takes a look back at the folks whose footsteps she'll be following in. Check out our review of EPA administrators past to find out what the nation's top environmental officials have managed to do (and undo). (link)

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