Statement by President Obama on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s Announcement that She Will Leave the Administration Early Next Year

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 27, 2012.

Over the last four years, Lisa Jackson has shown an unwavering commitment to the health of our families and our children. Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in…