Lawmaker warns EPA chief to provide data

Contempt of Congress vote possible over smog, greenhouse gases

WASHINGTON – A House committee chairman on Friday threatened to hold the head of the EPA and a White House budget official in contempt of Congress for not handing over documents about new smog requirements and a decision blocking California greenhouse gas limits.

Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, said he’d hold a vote in his committee next week on a contempt resolution, if he doesn’t get the information he wants.

He made the threat in letters to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and Susan Dudley, administrator for information and regulatory affairs at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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