A report by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor found a number of problems with the state Pollution Control Agency’s accounting systems, including neglecting to scrub banking data that auditors said could be used to commit fraud.
As Attorney General Eric Holder announced this afternoon that the Department of Justice (DoJ) has begun a criminal and civil investigation into the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, he took a moment to name-check the officials leading his team in the Gulf.
The chief of DoJ’s Environment and Natural More…
It’s Earth Day, and over at TWI’s sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer reports that dioxin-contaminated fish caught from the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers during an annual Walleye Festival sponsored by Dow Chemical could find its way to the dinner tables of poor people.
The Environmental Protection Agency and its beleaguered administrator, Stephen Johnson, have managed to stay out of the news for about two months. But the agency was the focus of a Senate environmental committee hearing yesterday on yet another pollution law being ignored by the Bush administration.
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