Ex-chemical industry lawyer to lead Superfund task force

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Source: AP



By MICHAEL BIESECKER
Today



WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer tapped to lead a task force at the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing cleanups at the nation’s most polluted places worked until recently for a top chemical and plastics manufacturer with a troubled legacy of creating some of those toxic sites.

Steven D. Cook has been named as the new chair of the Superfund Task Force, which EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt created last year to revamp how the agency oversees cleanups at the more than 1,300 toxic sites.

Before beginning work in February as deputy assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management, Cook served more than 20 years as in-house corporate counsel for LyondellBasell Industries — one of the world’s largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies.

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An analysis by The Associated Press shows that nearly half the political appointees hired at EPA under President Donald Trump have industry ties. Of more than 60 EPA hires tracked by the AP over the last year, about one-third worked as registered lobbyists or lawyers for chemical manufacturers, fossil fuel producers or other EPA-regulated companies.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/c2ef5e4050fd4fe69f3469a5f4d731dc/Ex-chemical-industry-lawyer-to-lead-Superfund-task-force

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Pruitt's friends are of the same stinking swamp as he is--so he hires them. damn


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1. But she had a email server in her basement... Sounds a bit quaint now doesn't it...