Former Whitman Aide Nominated As EPA Enforcement Chief
President Bush said he will nominate John Peter Suarez, a former aide to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, to be EPA's assistant administrator for enforcement. The Feb. 27 announcement comes about five months after Bush's first nominee, former Ohio EPA director Donald R. Schregardus, withdrew from consideration when the Senate indicated it would not confirm him.
When Whitman was governor of New Jersey, Suarez was her assistant counsel. Since March 1999, Suarez has been director of New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement. He was an assistant U.S. attorney between 1992 and 1998.