You can say that you are a friend of the environment all you want. But what have you done about it? Truly.
President Barack Obama has just nominated Clinton retread I.S. Moreno to be DOJ's top enviro lawyer. Under Clinton she was Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
She is currently corporate environmental counsel for General Electric where she defends GE from lawsuits related to GE being the most notorious Superfund polluter on the planet Earth.
Obama is acting out the same policy towards the environment that was displayed under Bush II and Clinton. His appointment of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary has led to a policy that allows for the killing of two-thirds of the wolves in the Northern Rockies and now this appointment of a Moreno fox to guard the Superfund hen house. Add this to the nomination of Interior's number two official, Mr. Hayes, the fossil fuel lobbyist (another Clinton retread).
How much effort is required to think a minute about what type of person you want to enforce executive branch policy and laws of the land? Obama obviously does not care much about what big business is doing to OUR land.
Obama has named Moreno to regulate Superfund legal issues. This is a VERY important position, and it goes to a fanatical scion of GE. From personal experience, I have to tell you that one does not work at GE and not be a zealot for double digit growth and destroying the competition. It is part of the coporate culture to secret their acolytes into the machinery of government regulation to make sure the bottom line is protected. Do you honestly believe that a GE top lawyer is going to work for you, or for her pals back in GE? And stop all this carping about how lawyers just follow the paymaster: she is taking a 90% pay cut to work at DOJ, and dreaming of the revolving door later on, when she will make millions as a lobbyist.
Add up the Obama nominations and you get the standard corporatist nexus of special interests. Geithner + Moreno + Hayes, et al., = enviro law at the service of big business, not the American taxpayer.
I have the same horrible feeling about Obama that I felt about Clinton: each week brings a new item of news that favors the corporatist shysters over the wretched American taxpayer. What was all that talk about not hiring lobbyists to serve the Obama regime?
Listen up: you are paying for this massive robbery.