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From MSNBC's Adam Verdugo Former New Jersey governor and head of the EPA Christie Todd Whitman said President-elect Obama's choice to head up the EPA, Lisa Jackson , will face an agency that's "pretty deep in the hole."
Whitman noted Jackson's previous experience in the EPA as qualifications that would make her ready for the job.
"She is someone who brings credibility from the environmental community to the agency," Whitman said in an interview on MSNBC with Norah O'Donnell .
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