He Was Dow's 'Dioxin Lawyer.' Now He's Trump's Choice to Run the Superfund Program. (NYT)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/climate/dow-epa-superfund.html

He Was Dow’s ‘Dioxin Lawyer.’ Now He’s Trump’s Choice to Run the Superfund Program.
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Tryggvi Adalbjornsson
July 28, 2018

The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation’s most extensive cleanups, one involving Dow Chemical’s sprawling headquarters in Midland, Mich.

But while he led Dow’s legal strategy there, the chemical giant was accused by regulators, and in one case a Dow engineer, of submitting disputed data, misrepresenting scientific evidence and delaying cleanup, according to internal documents and court records as well as interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the project.

The lawyer, Peter C. Wright, was nominated in March by President Trump to be assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing the Superfund program, which was created decades ago to clean up the nation’s most hazardous toxic waste sites. He is already working at the agency in an advisory role as he awaits congressional approval. If confirmed, Mr. Wright would also oversee the emergency response to chemical spills and other hazardous releases nationwide.

E.P.A. officials pointed to Mr. Wright’s expertise in environmental law and his tenure at Dow as valuable qualifications. The White House on Saturday referred questions to the E.P.A.

He spent 19 years at Dow, one of the world’s largest chemical makers, and once described himself in a court deposition as “the company’s dioxin lawyer.” He was assigned to the Midland cleanup in 2003, and later became a lead negotiator in talks with the E.P.A. It was during his work on the cleanup that the agency criticized Dow for the cleanup delays, testing lapses and other missteps.

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1. Just great

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2. they just can't

kill people fast enough. Sociopaths.

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3. Do they search for the least acceptable candidate?

Who comes up with these ****oles?

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4. Actually I believe that to be the case.I mean, Betsy DeVos?! He routinely picks those out to destroy

...the very agencies they are in charge of.

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5. He hates America. We did not vote for him, and he knows it.

Also, we didn't come to his inauguration in droves. We MUST pay!

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6. more intentional sabotage

again.