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Snyder Picks Perfect Head For State Environment Agency - Former 20-Year BP Executive
A former BP lobbyist who Gov. Rick Snyder says has good crisis management skills will lead Michigan's environmental agency in the wake of fallout from the Flint water crisis, a move that drew criticism Thursday because of her ties to the company responsible for the disastrous 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Heidi Grether of Williamston will become Department of Environmental Quality director, effective Aug. 1, barring any unlikely objection from the Republican-controlled Senate. She has been the deputy director of the Michigan Agency for Energy for more than a year.
She previously worked at BP for about 20 years, mostly as state government affairs director, before managing external affairs in the Gulf after the oil spill. She formerly was a legislative aide in the Michigan Legislature.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/veteran-bp-lobbyist-named-michigan-environmental-chief-40586825
