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EPA head Lisa Jackson to resign post

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, who pushed through the most sweeping curbs on air pollution in two decades, announced Thursday morning she will resign her post.

Jackson, who will step down shortly after President Obama's State of the
Union address next month, has not accepted another job at this time,
according to several individuals who have spoken with her. Many expected she would not remain for the administration's second term; Jackson herself joked about it recently.

The slew of rules EPA enacted over the past four years — including the first-ever greenhouse gas standards for vehicles, cuts in mercury and other toxic pollution from power plants and a tighter limit on soot, the nation's most widespread deadly pollutant — prompted many congressional Republicans and business groups to suggest Jackson was waging a "war on coal." But it also made Jackson a hero to the environmental community, who viewed her as their most high-profile advocate within the Obama administration.

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