Maybe you pro bloggers will write about this tomorrow, but this is my take on it. My guess it that this is just the tip of the iceberg of Bush's environmental assaults. This comes from a 60 Minutes segment.
Jack Spadaro tells Bob Simon that the Bush administration covered up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
"The Bush administration came in and the scope of our investigation was considerably shortened. I had never seen something so corrupt and lawless in my entire career."
You can read the whole story here
I hope that this gets good play in the print and web media.
Here's more ....
The toxic coal slurry spill in Appalachia was 25 times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. Spadaro says he intends to sue the government. He's also in contact with the Office of Special Counsel for Whistleblower Protection.
Who is Jack Spadaro? He's a man who's devoted his life to the safety of miners and the safety of people who live near mines. He's an engineer, who until recently was head of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy (MSHA), a branch of the Department of Labor, which trains mining inspectors.
But he lost that job last year, after he blew the whistle on what he called a whitewash by the Bush administration of an investigation into a major environmental disaster. Correspondent Bob Simon reports.
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"I had never seen anything so corrupt and lawless in my entire career, what I saw regarding interference with a federal investigation of the most serious environmental disaster in the history of the Eastern United States," says Spadaro.
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