Trump picks Dow Chemical lawyer for key role at EPA

[demmiblue]

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 nation’s most toxic sites.

The White House announced that Trump has nominated Peter C. Wright to serve as EPA’s assistant administrator for Land and Emergency Management. Wright has worked as a corporate lawyer at Dow Chemical Co. since 1999.

Despite Trump’s campaign pledges to “drain the swamp” in Washington, Wright’s 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.

Read more: https://apnews.com/cf2a6a09bfe3455cb40bc5ed858345ae

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Another fox guarding what's left of the chicken coop.

[Botany]

2. Trump is working 24/7 to destroy America because that is what Putin wants.

Now let me guess the response to a haz mat/chemical spill will be the
use of a Dow Chemical product.

[olddad56]

3. Trump works directly for Putin, Putin owns Trump and Putins goal is to get even for the ..

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]

7. The rigged elections in 2000 and 2004 allowed Trump to come to power.

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

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. All of this makes sense if you just understand that TRUMP is a Russian asset.

...as others have noted.

[lordsummerisle]

5. OK, so without reading beyond the OP I know this is from The Onion

...right?

[Judi Lynn]

6. Another appointment of one of the very last people who should ever hold that position.

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]

8. nothing is wrong

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.