Leavitt, M

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">=</h1><div><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/how-bush-insiders-are-influencing-climate-debate/">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/how-bush-insiders-are-influencing-climate-debate/</a></div><div>...</div><div>Christine Todd Whitman Under Bush: EPA administrator from 2001 to 2003 Best known for: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/10/bad-air" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Quietly accepting massive rollbacks of environmental protections</a> Revolving door: Went on to found Whitman Strategy Group, which has lobbied on behalf of chemicals manufacturer FMC Corporation and a subsidiary of <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2007/09/chevron-releases-video-game" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Chevron</a>.Michael O. Leavitt Under Bush: EPA administrator from 2003 to 2005 Best known for: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2003/12/bad-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">Weakening the Clean Air Act, reducing standards on mercury emissions, and pushing the so-called Healthy Forests Initiative</a> Revolving door: Has since founded Leavitt Partners, which provides “strategic input and counsel” on topics such as “environmental health” ...</div><div>
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rfk2:

Mike Leavitt of Ut repl CTW, 1st act weaken mercury rgs from coal (40% or airborne

merc) most cd be elim for 1% of plant rev.  lev and Holm scrapped BC reforms; much

reform" came from Latham and Watkins law firm (holm fmr co)  128

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RFK: We weren’t surprised by the federal environmental record, because we saw that he’d been the worst environmental governor in America. Under his leadership, Texas became the most polluted state in the country, with the highest levels of air pollution, the highest levels of water pollution, and the highest level of toxic waste and toxic releases. And it was 49th among 50 states in per-capita environmental spending. He was only worsted by Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah, who he has named his EPA administrator and who is now in charge of stewarding all of America’s environmental assets.

MJ.com: How has the situation changed now that Michael O. Leavitt has replaced Christine Todd Whitman at the EPA?

RFK: It went from bad to worse. Leavitt has giant social skills and charm, but his record is one of the most anti-environmental of any governor except for George W. Bush. The first thing that he did when he came into office was to dismantle President Clinton’s mercury rule. The same utilities that are discharging ozone and particulates, those same coal-burning power plants are also discharging huge amounts of mercury into our air, and the mercury ends up in the fish. Just a few weeks ago, the EPA announced its decision that, as a result of that, all fish in 19 states are now unsafe to eat because of mercury contamination. At least some of the fish in 48 states are now unsafe to eat. In fact, the only two states where they’re “safe” are Alaska and Wyoming, where the Republican-controlled legislatures refused to allocate the funds for their agencies to test the fish.

Today, one out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease. My own levels of mercury are so high -- I had them tested recently -- that a woman with the same levels would have a child with cognitive impairment. The Clinton administration had classified mercury as a hazardous pollutant under the Clean Air Act, which triggered a requirement that those utilities remove 90 percent of the mercury within three and a half years. It would have cost less than 1 percent of plant revenue, and the great thing about it is that it works; we now know that when the utilities stop discharging mercury, that the fish downstream clean up almost immediately.

But this is an industry that gave all that money, over $100 million, to the president. A few months ago, the Bush administration announced that it was scrapping the Clinton-era regulations and substituting instead regulations that were written by utility lawyers, from the law firm of Latham and Watkins. Under the new rules, the utilities will effectively never have to clean up their mercury. And the chief lobbyist for Latham and Watkins was Jeffrey Holmstead, who is now the head of the air division of EPA. This is an example of how corporations have infiltrated our government and are dismantling it in order to privatize the commons.

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Michael Leavitt</h1>

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Michael Okerland Leavitt (Mike Leavitt) (1951- ), of Utah, was <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/809.html" class="external text" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/809.html" rel="nofollow">appointed</a> December 13, 2004, by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> to be Secretary of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="Department of Health and Human Services">Department of Health and Human Services</a>. His nomination was <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/809.html" class="external text" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/809.html" rel="nofollow">sent</a> to the Senate January 4, 2005, and he was confirmed January 26, 2005. He is also a trustee of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars" title="Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars">Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars</a>.

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<h2>Profiles</h2>

Leavitt served as Administrator of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Environmental Protection Agency" class="mw-redirect">Environmental Protection Agency</a> since his Senate confirmation October 28, 2003. Leavitt was named by President Bush on August 11, 2003, to succeed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christine_Todd_Whitman" title="Christine Todd Whitman">Christine Todd Whitman</a> as Agency head.<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031028-8.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031028-8.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_epa" class="external autonumber" title="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_epa" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

<a href="http://www.utah.gov/governor/biography.html" class="external text" title="http://www.utah.gov/governor/biography.html" rel="nofollow">Utah Governor Mike Leavitt Biography</a>:

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<dd>Michael O. Leavitt, the 14th governor of Utah, has led the state through an era of change and unparalleled prosperity. Elected in 1992, reelected in 1996 with the largest vote total in state history and the second governor in Utah history to be reelected to a third term, Leavitt has carried out a vision of improvement and innovation while positioning Utah for success in a new millennium.</dd>

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<dd>Under Leavitt, Utah has been named the "best-managed state" in America, the "best place to locate a business" and host of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Sales, income and property taxes have all been reduced.</dd>

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<dd>Crime is down and student achievement is up. Open spaces are being preserved. Air pollution is diminishing. Highways and public transportation are helping people to move around efficiently. Welfare reliance is shrinking.</dd>

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<dd>Governor Leavitt's leadership extends beyond the state's borders as well. He is past chairman of the National Governors Association and a leading national voice on issues such as welfare reform, federal-state relations, e-commerce and balanced environmental management.</dd>

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<dd>Born on February 11, 1951, in Cedar City, Utah, Leavitt graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and business from Southern Utah University and married Jacalyn Smith. The governor and first lady are the parents of five children.</dd>

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<dd>After earning his degree, Leavitt joined the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leavitt_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leavitt Group (page does not exist)">Leavitt Group</a>, a regional insurance firm. He eventually became president and chief executive officer of the company, establishing it as one of the top insurance brokers in America. He also served as an outside director of two large public corporations and was a member of the Utah State Board of Regents, overseeing the state's nine colleges and universities.</dd>

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<dd>Leavitt was successful in his first bid for public office, winning the governorship with 42% of the vote in a three-way race in 1992. He won reelection in 1996 with a record 74% of the popular vote. He is only the second governor in Utah history to be reelected to a third term.</dd>

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<dd>At his first inauguration, Leavitt pledged to take the state to a "whole new level of performance." In the course of two terms, his vision of performance has become reality.</dd>

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<dd>The average elementary class size in Utah is down by three students, while teacher salaries are up - all part of a 56% increase in overall spending for education in the Leavitt years. Leavitt education initiatives include the state's first charter schools, stricter graduation requirements and measures to guarantee reading proficiency, improve the education environment and bring technology to every classroom.</dd>

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<dd>One in every four jobs that now exist in Utah was created on the Leavitt watch. Utah's traditional dependence on the defense industry has given way to diversification and an influx of high-tech industries.</dd>

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<dd>Household incomes are rising and unemployment is low.</dd>

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<dd>Welfare reliance has fallen by more than half. More than 30,000 Utahns who previously had no health care insurance now have it as a result of Leavitt's Healthprint program launched in 1994.</dd>

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<dd>Highways in Utah are being rebuilt and repaired at an unprecedented rate, including the largest design-build highway project in American history, a $1.6 billion total reconstruction of Interstate 15 through Salt Lake County.</dd>

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<dd>Leavitt is a founder of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Western_Governors_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Western Governors University (page does not exist)">Western Governors University</a> and creator of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Enlibra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Enlibra (page does not exist)">Enlibra</a> environmental management philosophy that has been adopted by the National Governors Association.</dd>

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<dd>He negotiated the school trust lands swap with the federal government that secured millions of dollars for Utah school children; and he designed the "digital state" initiative that will deliver high-speed Internet access statewide and guarantee Utah's place in the global economy.</dd>

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According to an August 12, 2003 Associated Press <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_epa" class="external text" title="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_epa" rel="nofollow">news article</a>:

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<dd>"For the second time in his term, President Bush chose for his environment chief a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> governor who has cultivated an image as a moderate on environmental issues.</dd>

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<dd>"By picking Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to succeed Christie Whitman as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Bush is tapping someone who might strengthen the president's standing with green-minded voters.</dd>

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<dd>"But some environmentalists say there is a difference between Leavitt and Whitman, who left the New Jersey governorship in 2001 to run the EPA.</dd>

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<dd>"'Like Christie Whitman, Governor Leavitt started out with a reputation as a moderate, but unlike her, he has taken a hard right turn on the environment,' said <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Clapp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Clapp (page does not exist)">Philip Clapp</a>, president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Environmental_Trust&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Environmental Trust (page does not exist)">National Environmental Trust</a>, an advocacy group.</dd>

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<dd>"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larry_Young&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Larry Young (page does not exist)">Larry Young</a>, executive director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Southern_Utah_Wilderness_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (page does not exist)">Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance</a>, said Leavitt's record on public lands, wetlands conservation and sprawl issues was unimpressive."</dd>

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<dd>"Promising to improve the nation's air quality, Leavitt said he would listen to all sides. 'There is no progress polarizing at the extremes but great progress when we collaborate in the middle,' Leavitt said. 'I'll leave it a better place than I found it. ... I'll give it my all.'</dd>

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<dd>"Bush said Leavitt, a former chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Governors_Association" title="National Governors Association">National Governors Association</a>, has 'a strong environmental record, a strong desire to improve what has taken place in the last three decades,' and also 'understands the importance of clear standards in environmental policy.'"</dd>

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<dd>"Bush's choice to succeed Whitman was met with immediate praise from industry groups and congressional Republicans, while environmental groups and Senate Democrats were opposed or at least skeptical."</dd>

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<dd>"Leavitt co-chaired the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Western_Regional_Air_Partnership&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Western Regional Air Partnership (page does not exist)">Western Regional Air Partnership</a> of states, tribes, environmentalists and industry to reduce brown haze over the Grand Canyon, and he fought plans to build a temporary storage facility for high-level nuclear waste on an Indian reservation in western Utah.</dd>

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<dd>"He cut several environmental deals with the Bush administration, most recently settling a long-standing dispute over ownership of roads across federal land. He negotiated exchanges of state and federal land, some of them questioned by Interior Department auditors.</dd>

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<dd>"He advocated a major highway extension through wetlands and wildlife habitat near the Great Salt Lake, only to have the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals halt the project when it said the Army Corps of Engineers didn't pay enough attention to wildlife needs or look at alternatives like mass transit."</dd>

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<h2>SourceWatch Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens%27_Health_Care_Working_Group" title="Citizens' Health Care Working Group">Citizens' Health Care Working Group</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Healthy_Forests_Initiative" title="Healthy Forests Initiative">Healthy Forests Initiative</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.politicsol.com/news/govnews-ut.html" class="external text" title="http://www.politicsol.com/news/govnews-ut.html" rel="nofollow">Latest News Items on Governor Leavitt</a>. Includes EPA nomination.</li>

<li><a href="https://www.inboxrobot.com/newsletter.php3?brief_id=5114" class="external text" title="https://www.inboxrobot.com/newsletter.php3?brief_id=5114" rel="nofollow">Daily Newsletter on Governor Leavitt</a>.</li>

<li>Mike Carter, <a href="http://www.ldshistory.net/1990/leavitt.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.ldshistory.net/1990/leavitt.htm" rel="nofollow">Utah Govinor, Mike Leviett in Political Minefield</a>, The Associated Press, [circa Aug. 3rd 1998].</li>

<li>Katharine Q. Seelye, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/politics/12EPA.html?th" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/politics/12EPA.html?th" rel="nofollow">Bush Nominates Utah Governor to Lead E.P.A.</a>, The New York Times, August 11, 2003. (Posted 8/12/03.)</li>

<li>Ceci Connelly, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001791_pf.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001791_pf.html" rel="nofollow">"Core of Leavitt's Team Dates To His Days as Utah Governor,"</a> Washington Post, July 1, 2005.</li>

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rfk on mojo:

RFK: It went from bad to worse. Leavitt has giant social skills and charm, but his record is one of the most anti-environmental of any governor except for George W. Bush. The first thing that he did when he came into office was to dismantle President Clinton’s mercury rule. The same utilities that are discharging ozone and particulates, those same coal-burning power plants are also discharging huge amounts of mercury into our air, and the mercury ends up in the fish. Just a few weeks ago, the EPA announced its decision that, as a result of that, all fish in 19 states are now unsafe to eat because of mercury contamination. At least some of the fish in 48 states are now unsafe to eat. In fact, the only two states where they’re “safe” are Alaska and Wyoming, where the Republican-controlled legislatures refused to allocate the funds for their agencies to test the fish.

Today, one out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease. My own levels of mercury are so high -- I had them tested recently -- that a woman with the same levels would have a child with cognitive impairment. The Clinton administration had classified mercury as a hazardous pollutant under the Clean Air Act, which triggered a requirement that those utilities remove 90 percent of the mercury within three and a half years. It would have cost less than 1 percent of plant revenue, and the great thing about it is that it works; we now know that when the utilities stop discharging mercury, that the fish downstream clean up almost immediately.

But this is an industry that gave all that money, over $100 million, to the president. A few months ago, the Bush administration announced that it was scrapping the Clinton-era regulations and substituting instead regulations that were written by utility lawyers, from the law firm of Latham and Watkins. Under the new rules, the utilities will effectively never have to clean up their mercury. And the chief lobbyist for Latham and Watkins was Jeffrey Holmstead, who is now the head of the air division of EPA. This is an example of how corporations have infiltrated our government and are dismantling it in order to privatize the commons.

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To avoid answering questions posed by six U.S. Senators concerned with the records of President Bush and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect">EPA</a> nominee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Leavitt" title="Michael Leavitt">Michael Leavitt</a> on environmental issues that affect the lives of millions of Americans, Senate Republicans <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Frist" title="Bill Frist">Bill Frist</a> (R-TN) and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> (R-KY) last night filed a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cloture" title="Cloture" class="mw-redirect">cloture</a> petition ( <a href="http://www.petitionspot.com/write_pet.php" class="external text" title="http://www.petitionspot.com/write_pet.php" rel="nofollow">write a petition</a> ) to override "holds" placed on Leavitt's nomination and to cut off any floor debate--before any debate has even begun. --<a href="http://www.earthjustice.org/news/display.html?ID=708" class="external text" title="http://www.earthjustice.org/news/display.html?ID=708" rel="nofollow">EarthJustice</a>

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<dd>"The Senators with holds on Mike Leavitt's confirmation vote have asked legitimate questions about this nomination. The Senators have questions that have yet to be answered about whether Governor Leavitt and President Bush will continue to weaken our nation's environmental safeguards. They are refusing to release information about their anti-environmental policies," said Joan Mulhern, senior legislative counsel for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earthjustice" title="Earthjustice">Earthjustice</a>.</dd>

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<dd>"This disrespectful disregard of traditional Senate processes is an effort to force a vote on the EPA nomination before many important questions can even be asked," said Mulhern. "The Bush administration and Senate Republican leadership apparently don't believe they have to answer to anyone about their policies to destroy federal environmental safeguards. These are life and death issues for many Americans - will our drinking water be clean? Is the air safe for our kids to breathe? The Bush White House and Governor Leavitt do not want to answer these questions.</dd><dd>
</dd><dd></dd><dd>wiki</dd><dd>Michael Okerlund Leavitt (born February 11, 1951) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" title="Politician" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">politician</a>. He served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Utah" title="List of Governors of Utah" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">14th Governor of Utah</a> from 1993 to 2003, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Administrator</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a> from 2003 to 2005 and as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Secretary of Health and Human Services" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Secretary of Health and Human Services</a> from 2005 to 2009.Leavitt serves as a co-leader of the Prevention Initiative at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Policy_Center" title="Bipartisan Policy Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bipartisan Policy Center</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Early_life_and_family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life and family</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Early career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Government_service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Government service</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Governor_of_Utah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Governor of Utah</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#EPA_Administrator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2EPA Administrator</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3Secretary of Health and Human Services</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Advisor_to_Mitt_Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.4Advisor to Mitt Romney</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Leavitt_Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Leavitt Foundation</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Leavitt_Partners" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Leavitt Partners</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early life and family[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Leavitt was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_City,Utah" title="Cedar City, Utah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cedar City, Utah</a>, the son of Phyllis Anne (Okerlund) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_L.Leavitt" title="Dixie L. Leavitt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dixie Lorraine Leavitt</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Leavitt graduated with a degree in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business" title="Business" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">business</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Utah_University" title="Southern Utah University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern Utah University</a> and married Jacalyn Smith. They have five children.Leavitt is a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>.Leavitt is a descendant of an old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Massachusetts</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Puritan</a> family, and a direct descendant of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Leavitt" title="Dudley Leavitt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dudley Leavitt</a>, a Mormon pioneer.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Leavitt's business career started with his joining <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leavitt_Group" title="The Leavitt Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Leavitt Group</a>, a regional insurance company founded by his father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_L.Leavitt" title="Dixie L. Leavitt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dixie L. Leavitt</a>. He rose to become the company's president and CEO and presided over a period of expansion. He was subsequently appointed to the boards of directors of numerous local and regional companies, including Utah Power and Light, as well as a member of the Utah State Board of Regents. As a regent, he helped oversee Utah's nine public colleges and universities. For four years, he was chair of Southern Utah University's board of trustees.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-Utah_History_Encyclopedia-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>In 1976, Leavitt assisted his father, then a Utah state senator, in an unsuccessful campaign for governor. He worked on a number of U.S. Senate campaigns through the 1980s for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Garn" title="Jake Garn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jake Garn</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Hatch" title="Orrin Hatch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Orrin Hatch</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-Utah_History_Encyclopedia-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Government service[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Government service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Governor of Utah[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Governor of Utah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 135.797px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" width="50" height="39" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 848px;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">verification</a>. Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none !important; padding: 0px !important;">improve this article</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2017) (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Learn how and when to remove this template message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table>Leavitt first ran for governor in 1992. He had tough competition in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> primary from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Eyre(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Eyre (author)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Eyre</a> who had more delegates vote for him at the state Republican convention. He defeated Independent Party candidate Merrill Cook and Democratic nominee Stewart Hanson in the general election, becoming the 14th Governor of the State of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah" title="Utah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Utah</a>.A holiday fire shortly before noon on December 15, 1993, destroyed much of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Governor%27s_Mansion" title="Utah Governor's Mansion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Utah Governor's Mansion</a>, but spared the lives of the first family and staff (Jacalyn Leavitt and some members of the family and staff were in the home at the time of the fire).Leavitt was re-elected in 1996 with the largest vote total in state history. While Governor, he and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Romer" title="Roy Romer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roy Romer</a> of Colorado were the two key founders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University" title="Western Governors University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Western Governors University</a> in 1997, one of the first exclusively online schools in the nation. In addition to Leavitt and Romer, 17 other governors signed legislation creating the school as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-profit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">non-profit</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_university" title="Private university" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">private university</a>.Leavitt came under strong criticism in 1998, while Governor, when asked why polygamy is not often prosecuted, he stated he was not sure, however "it may fall under religious freedoms." He was later forced to backpedal and claimed that polygamy should be against the law.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>In 2000, Leavitt became only the second governor in Utah history to be re-elected to a third term. As governor, he held leadership positions in national and regional organizations, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_State_Governments" title="Council of State Governments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council of State Governments</a>, over which he presided for a year.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">EPA Administrator[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: EPA Administrator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On August 11, 2003, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> nominated Leavitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_conference" title="News conference" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">press conference</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,Colorado" title="Aurora, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aurora, Colorado</a>. He was confirmed on October 28, 2003 by a vote of 88–8 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a>. On November 5, having resigned the governorship, Leavitt was sworn in as the 10th Administrator of the EPA.At the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a> he implemented higher standards for ozone, diesel fuels and other air pollutants. He organized and managed a collaboration to develop a federal plan to clean up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Great Lakes</a>.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Secretary of Health and Human Services[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Secretary of Health and Human Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On December 13, 2004, Leavitt was nominated by Bush to succeed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Thompson" title="Tommy Thompson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tommy Thompson</a> as Secretary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_Human_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Health and Human Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Health and Human Services</a>, and was confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_vote" title="Voice vote" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">voice vote</a> on January 26, 2005.Leavitt was commonly known for his advocating that Medicare was drifting toward disaster. He claimed Congress neglected his notions.In June 2006, Leavitt came under criticism for using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention" title="Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>’s (CDC) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfstream_III" title="Gulfstream III" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gulfstream III</a> Emergency Response aircraft to, primarily, promote the newly reformed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare(United_States)" title="Medicare (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Medicare</a> plan. Critics argue that Leavitt irresponsibly used the aircraft beginning in January 2006, logging over $700,000 worth of flight time in the 14-seat private jet. Leavitt’s office maintains that the use of the aircraft was necessary and legal since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Appropriations" title="United States Senate Committee on Appropriations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Appropriations Committee</a> approved his use of the aircraft, and commercial services could not meet the deadlines required by his engagements.Leavitt has described the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza" title="Avian influenza" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">avian influenza</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus" title="Virus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">virus</a> as the most serious threat to American security. Secretary Leavitt cited the work of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Health Organization</a>'s Dr. Michael McCoy as the most compelling scientific work into the avian flu threat. This encouraged Secretary Leavitt to mobilize the nation’s pandemic preparedness and led to the reconfiguring of the nation’s medical emergency plans.Leavitt also served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council" title="Homeland Security Advisory Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Homeland Security Advisory Council</a>. In August 2007, Leavitt became the first cabinet-level <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" title="Blog" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">blogger</a> in U.S. history.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Advisor to Mitt Romney[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Advisor to Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In August 2012, Politico reported Leavitt to be "creating a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_presidential_transition_of_Mitt_Romney" title="Planned presidential transition of Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">government-in-waiting</a> plan for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a>" and "a lock for... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_chief_of_staff" class="mw-redirect" title="White House chief of staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">White House chief of staff</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Treasury secretary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Treasury secretary</a>" in a potential Romney administration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Leavitt Foundation[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Leavitt Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 135.797px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" width="50" height="39" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 996px;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">verification</a>. Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none !important; padding: 0px !important;">improve this article</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2017) (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Learn how and when to remove this template message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table>Leavitt's family <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation(charity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation (charity)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">charitable foundation</a>, the Dixie and Anne Leavitt Foundation, was established by the Leavitt family in 2000, and the family has donated nearly $9 million of assets to it since. It has provided them with tax write-offs for the donated assets. About a third of the foundation's assets have been loaned back to family businesses, such as a $332,000 loan to Leavitt Land and Investment Inc., in which Leavitt has an interest. According to a 2006 National Public Radio report, these loans were legal because they were made at market rates.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-autogenerated2-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> A month following the NPR report, Congress made such transactions illegal.The same NPR report revealed that nearly $500,000 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_contribution_deductions_in_the_United_States" title="Charitable contribution deductions in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">charitable contributions</a> provided to the Southern Utah Foundation were used for housing scholarships to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Utah_University" title="Southern Utah University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern Utah University</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] The scholarships were subsequently used to place students in the Cedar Development Co., a Leavitt family business, with the money used to pay the students' rent. NPR's investigation found that the arrangement was legal and that the Leavitts did not profit from the arrangement. Although legal, the procedure, called "round-tripping" in philanthropic circles, has garnered criticism as lacking in the spirit of philanthropy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-autogenerated2-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> The report also stated that Leavitt was not directly involved in the foundation's operations.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Total charitable grants from the foundation during its first six years were $1,468,055. The foundation's principal beneficiaries have been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Utah_University" title="Southern Utah University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern Utah University</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>. Other beneficiaries have included arts, educational and humanitarian organizations, including the Leavitt family genealogical society.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Leavitt Partners[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Leavitt Partners" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Leavitt Partners is a consulting firm created by Leavitt to advise clients in the health care and food safety sectors. The firm is also involved in helping the states implement the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>, commonly known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ObamaCare</a>."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_note-Cato-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Electoral history[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Electoral history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%09%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1992 Race for Governor<ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%09%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael Leavitt (R), 42%</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_Cook" title="Merrill Cook" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Merrill Cook</a> (I), 34%</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Stewart Hanson (D), 23%</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1996 Race for Governor<ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%09%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael Leavitt (R) (inc.), 75%</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.James_Bradley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E. James Bradley (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Bradley</a> (D), 23%</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2000 Race for Governor<ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%09%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael Leavitt (R) (inc.), 56%</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Orton" title="Bill Orton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Orton</a> (D), 42%</li></ul></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bipartisanpolicy.org/topics/health" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%0A%09%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" a="A" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Policy Topic: Health | Bipartisan Policy Center"</a>. Bipartisanpolicy.org. 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(1994), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEAVITT_MICHAEL.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%0A%09%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" a="A" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Leavitt, Michael Okerlund"</a>, in Powell, Allan Kent, Utah History Encyclopedia, Salt Lake City, Utah: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Utah_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Utah Press" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Salt Lake City Tribune, August 9 and 29, 1998.</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }"Who’s on the inside track for a Romney Cabinet" by MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI, Politico, August 28, 2012, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80233.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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Retrieved 2010-08-21.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Leavitt+Charity%27s+%24500%2C000+Returns%2C+in+the+Form+of+Rent&rft.pub=NPR&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fstory%2Fstory.php%3FstoryId%3D5590281&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMike+Leavitt" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-Cato-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leavitt#cite_ref-Cato_8-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Cannon, Michael (2011-06-28) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/republicans-getting-rich-off-obamacare/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%0A%09%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" a="A" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Republicans Getting Rich off ObamaCare</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cato Institute</a></li></ol></div></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">External links[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Leavitt&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: External links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" width="12" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px;" /></a> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michael_O.Leavitt" class="extiw" title="commons:Michael O. 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</dd><dd>Stephen Lee Johnson (born March 21, 1951) was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency</a> (EPA) under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> during the second term of his administration. He has received the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Rank_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidential Rank Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Presidential Rank Award</a>, the highest award that can be given to a civilian federal employee.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#Education_and_career_in_industry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Education and career in industry</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#EPA_career_prior_to_becoming_administrator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2EPA career prior to becoming administrator</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#EPA_Administrator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3EPA Administrator</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#Post_EPA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Post EPA</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Education and career in industry[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_L.Johnson&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education and career in industry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Johnson attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_University" title="Taylor University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Taylor University</a>, receiving a B.A. in biology followed by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">master's degree</a> in pathology from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Washington University</a>. Before working for the U.S. Government, he held a number of positions in laboratory and bio-technology companies. He was also the director of Hazelton Laboratories, now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covance" title="Covance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Covance</a>. He has been awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_University" title="Taylor University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Taylor University</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Wesleyan_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Wesleyan College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia Wesleyan College</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">EPA career prior to becoming administrator[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_L.Johnson&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: EPA career prior to becoming administrator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Johnson began working at the EPA in 1979. He had been working at a private lab, Litton Bionetics Inc., in Washington. Johnson said that a mentor suggested he get a job at the EPA, learn about regulations from inside government, and then return to industry. "Regulations were really frustrating," Johnson told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2008, recalling his decision to join the EPA. "I wondered if they really understood what it was like to work in a laboratory."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-Eroding-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>Johnson's rise from career scientist to EPA chief began in 2001, when he made the jump from civil service bureaucrat to political appointee. In January 2001, Johnson was the lead staff toxics official at EPA. His selection as assistant administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances was set in motion by a Kentucky lobbyist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Grizzle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Grizzle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles Grizzle</a>, whose clients have included power companies, hospitals, shopping centers, and a formaldehyde industry association. After the 2000 election, Grizzle called then-senior White House aide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Karl Rove</a> and suggested that Rove should take a look at Johnson.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-Eroding-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>When EPA administrator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman" title="Christine Todd Whitman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christine Todd Whitman</a> resigned in 2003, Johnson became the acting deputy administrator, the number two position at EPA, and remained in that position when former Utah governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O.Leavitt" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael O. Leavitt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael O. Leavitt</a> was named administrator.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">EPA Administrator</h2>On January 26, 2005, when Leavitt became secretary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</a>, Johnson became acting administrator of EPA.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-Eroding-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> On March 4, 2005, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a> nominated him formally for the permanent position. He became the first career employee to hold the position of Administrator and the first scientist to head the Agency.During his April 6, 2005 Senate confirmation hearing, EPA was criticized for support of using human subjects in pesticide testing.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> Johnson "did not have the opportunity to fully address the committee's criticisms before the hearing was recessed."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> In April 2005, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_hold" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret hold" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">secret hold</a> was placed on his confirmation vote while he evaluated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Environmental_Exposure_Research_Study" title="Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study</a>, which advocated recording the effects of pesticides on children from infancy to age 3. In a letter that reached <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Barbara_Boxer" class="mw-redirect" title="Senator Barbara Boxer" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Barbara Boxer</a> several hours after she raised her concerns, Johnson said, "No additional work will be conducted on this study subject to the outcome of external scientific and ethical review."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> On April 8, Johnson canceled the study. His nomination was confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Senate</a> on April 29. On February 6, 2006, he issued a final regulation "prohibiting new research involving intentional exposure of pregnant women or children intended for submission to the EPA under the pesticide laws" and other protections.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>Johnson tried to block the efforts of 17 states to reduce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas" title="Greenhouse gas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">greenhouse gas</a> emissions and improve <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_automobiles" title="Fuel economy in automobiles" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">fuel economy</a>. He defended his position by arguing that “The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Bush administration" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Bush administration</a> is moving forward with a clear national solution, not a confusing patchwork of state rules. I believe this is a better approach than if individual states were to act alone.” The state rules he was blocking were more stringent than the Bush administration's proposed national solution.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> Johnson came under investigation for allowing the White House to improperly interfere with the decision to grant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">California</a> a waiver to limit greenhouse gases. On May 20, 2008, Johnson was questioned for three hours by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. On July 29, 2008, four Senators called for Johnson's resignation, alleging he made false statements to Congress.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-8" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a>On December 9, 2008, the Office of Inspector General, US EPA concluded that "EPA's California waiver decision on greenhouse gas automobile emissions met statutory procedural requirements." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a> On May 19, 2009, President Obama also concluded: "a clear and uniform national policy is also good news for the auto industry which will no longer be subjected to a costly patchwork of differing rules and regulations." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a>Johnson's stance on this and other issues was criticized in an editorial by the scientific journal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature(journal)" title="Nature (journal)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Nature</a>, which claimed he acted with "reckless disregard for law, science or the agency's own rules — or, it seems, the anguished protests of his own subordinates."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-nature-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[11]</a> In spite of this external criticism and over the objections of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Transportation, Energy, Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Council of Economic Advisors, and Small Business Administration, Johnson issued the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, "Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a> On February 29, 2008, four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor union" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">labor unions</a> representing 10.000 of the EPA's 17.000 employees (ca. 60%) published an open letter to Johnson, complaining that he had ignored the EPA's official Principles of Scientific Integrity in advancing Bush Administration positions on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation" title="Water fluoridation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">water fluoridation</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide" title="Pesticide" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">pesticide</a> regulation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(element)" title="Mercury (element)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">mercury</a> emissions, and greenhouse gas control.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-13" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a>As Administrator, he managed more than 17,000 Agency employees nationwide and oversaw an annual budget of $7.7 billion. His tenure expired on January 20, 2009.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Post EPA[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_L.Johnson&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Post EPA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>On June 29, 2010, clean technology company FlexEnergy announced that Johnson had joined its Board of Directors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> According to Johnson, the company's technology can minimize air pollutants in congested cities and industrial sites, as well as provide energy in remote areas around the world.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>On November 11, 2010, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotts_Miracle-Gro_Company" title="Scotts Miracle-Gro Company" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scotts Miracle-Gro Company</a> announced that Johnson had been named to its Board of Directors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Johnson#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>Johnson also sits on the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_University" title="Taylor University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Taylor University</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L._Johnson#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></dd><dd>==</dd>

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