Concerns Arise Over Bush's Pick for EPA Job (Asbestos lawyer!)

[Liberty Belle]

CONCERNS ARISE OVER BUSH’S PICK FOR EPA JOB; LAWYER WORKS FOR FIR THAT REPRESENTS W.R. GRACE, OTHERS

Seattle Post Intelligencer (6/25/05) -- President Bush has nominated Granta Nakayama, a partner in a law firm whose clients include W.R. Grace, BP, Dow Chemical and DuPont, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's far-flung enforcement division.

Selecting a lawyer and an engineer with one of the nation's largest corporate law firms, whose clients have deep and occasionally controversial relations with the EPA, triggered concerns that Nakayama would not be able to aggressively enforce environmental laws.

Foremost among those concerns is W.R. Grace, which is under federal criminal indictment on charges related to the operation of its vermiculite mine in Libby, Mont. Hundreds of workers and Libby residents contracted lethal asbestos-related disease -- a situation that gained national attention after a Seattle Post-Intelligencer series in 1999…

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/230047_epa25.html

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Bunch of crooks

And Chimp putting them all in power

[billybob537]

2. DAAAHHHH

What would DUBYA want with a real advocate of people's rights? That would screw up court cases for Carlysle Group and Haliburton.

[Cha]

3. More 1984 all over again.

What Whack job.

At least bush is uniting all the Dems against him and I hear the Indies aren't too happy with his ass now.

[merwin]

4. does this suprise anyone?

[minnesotaDFLer]

5. nope

typical day in fascist america

[Bozita]

6. As Halliburton CEO, Cheney bought Dresser Industries

Dresser was the poster child for companies facing multi-billion dollar asbestos lawsuits.

This appointment should solve that.

[Up2Late]

7. I'm getting the feeling * is JUST doing this to piss us off! What a Prick!

Might have to start calling him President Asshole.

[lovuian]

8. No conflict of Interests there!!! What a Joke!!!

How can this guy live with himself at night!!!