The Oct. 20 issue of Rolling Stone has a small article about Marvin Bush, GWB's favorite brother, and his involvement in a waste-disposal company called Tellurian. Marvin's company Winston Partners bought Tellurian in 2001.
Thereafter, Tellurian - renamed National Waste Services of Virginia after Marvin's company took it over - dumped 6,500 tons of trash per day, much of it from other states, into a rural landfill even though its state permit allowed it to dump only 250 tons per day. According to the company's chair, Marvin Bush knew all about this.
Tim Kaine, who's the current Lieutenant Governor in Va. and is running on the Dem ticket for Virginia governor, blew the whistle on the dumping back in 2003, but, according to RS, "the landfill stayed open - and continued to violate its permit - for another eight months."
How was the company getting away with this? Well, it helps to have friends in the Attorney General's office. Jerry Kilgore, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor, "repeatedly delayed hearings on the violations, turning a blind eye as Marvin's company continued to dump more than 1,000 tons per day. While the hearings remained stalled, Kilgore was tapped to head President Bush's re-election campaign in Virginia."
The state finally shut down the landfill in 2004, and NWS declared bankruptcy. But "Kilgore levied no fines, brought no criminal charges and kept the Bush name out of the mess."
Unfortunately, this story doesn't appear on RS's web site - if you want to read the whole thing, you'll have to find a paper copy.
I can't find any evidence that this has become a campaign issue or is being covered anywhere else, and I'm not sure why. With Bush's approval rating around 40 right now in Virginia, it seems like Kaine could make a little hay with a "Jerry Kilgore helped George Bush's brother illegally dump millions of tons of waste in Page County. Tim Kaine tried to stop it." ad. I wonder why this isn't happening.