WASHINGTON — The nation’s No. 2 environmental protection official is resigning, just one month after her boss, Christie Whitman, announced she was leaving the Environmental Protection Agency.
EPA Deputy Administrator Linda Fisher submitted her resignation June 26 and will leave her post July 11.
"I am proud of the work this agency has done to preserve and protect our precious natural environment and the health of the American people, whom we all have the honor to serve," Fisher expressed in her resignation letter to President Bush.
Whitman´s resignation was effective June 27.