Arnold to EPA: I’ll Be Back

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Can you imagine being a bland, later middle-aged Washington bureaucrat, and having Arnold Schwarzenegger march into your office and threaten you…with a lawsuit? That’s just what happened to Steve Johnson, the administrator of the EPA. Read more on the Blue Marble.