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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes
The Intercept
Donald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes
Lee Fang
@lhfang
2017-01-27 T20:07:28+00:00
A lobbyist for a utility company that heavily relies on coal-fueled power plants and has clashed with regulators is the new acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice division that oversees environmental crimes.
The appointment of Jeffery H. Wood, who up until last week was a lobbyist for Southern Company, was announced only with a modest notice posted on January 23 on the Environment and Natural Resource Divisions website. ... Its the latest personnel move that signals the coal industrys return to power in the Beltway.
President Trump has yet to nominate anyone to hold the assistant attorney general job on a permanent basis, but for the time being Wood will be overseeing the division that enforces civil and criminal environmental laws to reduce pollutants discharged into the air, water and land, and brings cases to enable the clean-up of contaminated waste sites.
The division has previously prosecuted coal firms and utilities, including a 2015 case against Duke Energy, which pled guilty for spilling coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina. The division also led a major initiative against companies for illegally operating coal-fire power plants, winning settlements that have forced firms to install pollution controls to reduce emissions.
Donald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes
Lee Fang
@lhfang
2017-01-27 T20:07:28+00:00
A lobbyist for a utility company that heavily relies on coal-fueled power plants and has clashed with regulators is the new acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice division that oversees environmental crimes.
The appointment of Jeffery H. Wood, who up until last week was a lobbyist for Southern Company, was announced only with a modest notice posted on January 23 on the Environment and Natural Resource Divisions website. ... Its the latest personnel move that signals the coal industrys return to power in the Beltway.
President Trump has yet to nominate anyone to hold the assistant attorney general job on a permanent basis, but for the time being Wood will be overseeing the division that enforces civil and criminal environmental laws to reduce pollutants discharged into the air, water and land, and brings cases to enable the clean-up of contaminated waste sites.
The division has previously prosecuted coal firms and utilities, including a 2015 case against Duke Energy, which pled guilty for spilling coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina. The division also led a major initiative against companies for illegally operating coal-fire power plants, winning settlements that have forced firms to install pollution controls to reduce emissions.
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Donald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2017
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No, I guess it doesn't. I was much more infuriated than I was sickened, however. NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2017
#4
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. Sickening...literally.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,480 posts)2. Why? You didn't see this coming?
Seriously, trump's been in office a week. Is there anything about this that is unexpected?
enough
(13,259 posts)3. So that keeps it from being sickening? NT
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,480 posts)4. No, I guess it doesn't. I was much more infuriated than I was sickened, however. NT
SHRED
(28,136 posts)5. Of course I did
WTF?
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. A fox in every henhouse.
It's like he is purposely trying to destroy the country as fast as he can. Putin put him on a timer?
dawg
(10,624 posts)7. Only gonna' prosecute windmills that kill birds ...
or obscure the view from golf courses.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)8. What a fucking bunch of crooked shitwipes