A Highlight of Conflicted Interest

An article was recently published in the New York Times about the contaminated sludge of the Hudson being stored on the outskirts of TinyTown, NM.

What I found interesting, and mostly disturbing, was the man involved in landing the contract to store the waste, Harold C. Simmons. Its pretty bad when the references following your name entail involvement in propaganda financing.

So the story goes like this. Environmentalists cry fowl, Simmons' company calls environmentalist's claims a lie. The EPA which is based in the same town as Simmons gives the project the green light.

They couldn't have painted a better picture of a man, sans morals, who buys permission for a lucrative contract and highlights the compromised position of a government agency.

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