EPA's Election-season Roadshow

Source: Salon.com, June 25, 2004 With election season in swing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Mike Leavitt has taken his show on the road, visiting key swing states to hand out pots of money for environmental projects. "Leavitt's recent wave of swing-state politicking has won his agency the moniker 'Election Protection Agency' in Beltway circles," reports Amanda Griscom. According to Aimee Christensen, director of Environment2004, "Not only has Leavitt made all his major announcements in swing states - at the exclusion of others - he's been incredibly selective about spotlighting certain problems while he neglects the countless public-health controversies that loom larger than ever."