Reply #50: How about MotherJones linking Sussman and Chemical companies

Robert Sussan was appointed to EPA by Clinton from May 1993 to October 1994.

He had worked for Covington and Burling from 1974 to 1987. - """Our environmental litigation practice involves challenges to new environmental regulations and the defense of clients in enforcement suits and damages actions brought by the federal government, individual states, environmental groups, and individuals. """"

http://www.covingtonburling.com/practices/oid52802/description.html


Article in Mother Jones about Sussman and his dealing with Chemical Companies.

"""It may be worth noting that before joining the EPA, Bob Sussman served as legal counsel to the Chemical Manufacturers Association, which he regularly represented against the EPA. DuPont and BASF (both dominant members of the CMA) had major contracts with the
incinerator until March 1993. Sussman nonetheless declined to
recuse himself from the case, despite pressure from environmentalists. (EPA chief Carol Browner, on the other hand, recused herself simply because her husband belongs to an environmental group which--like virtually all environmental groups--is opposed to the incinerator.) """"

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/letters/1994/03/backtalk.html


WTI (Waste Technology Inc)

"""For 14 years we have been fighting to prevent the construction and operation of Waste Technologies Incorporated (WTI), the world's largest commercial toxic waste incinerator, permitted to import hazardous waste from foreign countries to be burned in an impoverished minority Appalachian River Town.

WTI is located immediately on the bank of the Ohio River in a residential neighborhood. WTI's stack is level with a 400 student elementary school that sits on a bluff less than 1100 feet away.

East Liverpool is in an economically depressed community of conservative, hardworking essentially blue-collar people, poor people and people of color. All of East Liverpool's 500 black American residents live in the area of the incinerator. """"

http://www.greens.org/s-r/078/07-42.html