Trump picks Dow Chemical lawyer for key role at EPA
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Friday tapped a chemical industry insider to run the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees emergency response to hazardous spills and cleanups of the nations most toxic sites.
The White House announced that Trump has nominated Peter C. Wright to serve as EPAs assistant administrator for Land and Emergency Management. Wright has worked as a corporate lawyer at Dow Chemical Co. since 1999.
Despite Trumps campaign pledges to drain the swamp in Washington, Wrights nomination is the latest example of the president appointing corporate lawyers or lobbyists to supervise federal offices that directly regulate their former employers.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said Wright is exceptionally qualified to lead the Office of Land and Emergency Management.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)Now let me guess the response to a haz mat/chemical spill will be the
use of a Dow Chemical product.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)collapse of the former Soviet Union. You can thank the Bush Crime Family for that mistake as well as the quagmire in the Middle East.
Not sure who is worse, Putin or the criminals that have benefited from the rigged election of 2000. Rigged elections never benefit the American citizens.
Botany
(70,581 posts)Citizen's United, the roll back on the voting rights act, and HAVA have been
brutal to our nation.
The republicans and parts of the media that helped Trump steal the White House are
to me like we had Americans helping the Japanese @ Pearl Harbor.
Trump is so corrupt it is not even funny.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016202562
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)...as others have noted.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)...right?
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)It's like he moons the entire country with every decision he makes.
He taunts us all, reminding us there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, as he goes through his list of things the Republicans have wanted to accomplish for decades.
KT2000
(20,587 posts)it is just a matter of group hysterics when people get sick and die from hazardous chemicals! He would be up on the Frye Standard that would lead him to dismiss damage caused by chemicals that have been excluded by industry journals.