The Lookout website reports today (April 30, 2012) that Al Armendariz -- the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) official at the center of a budding scandal surrounding a 2010 video in which he said the EPA should "crucify" polluters -- has resigned.
Armendariz -- head of the EPA's South Central region in Dallas -- sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson last night informing her of his decision to step down.
Samuel Coleman -- who served as the EPA's senior federal official in New Orleans during the agency's response to hurricane Katrina -- will replace Armendariz as acting administrator.
Republicans -- already critical of what they call the Obama administration's war on energy -- seized upon the video when it surfaced last week, calling for Armendariz to resign.
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