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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman answers a question during a tour of a U.S. Customs inspection warehouse in Elizabeth, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003. An animal rights group PETA, cancelled an ad campagn targeting the EPA because Whitman's dog died. Her Scottish terrier was to have been featured on PETA billboards protesting EPA use of animals to test toxicity of some chemicals. But Whitman notified the group that the dog had be euthanized becasue she was suffering from cancer and not responding to treatment. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)