ApocaDocs: DOJ nominee's industry experience a worry for some

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Posted Sat May 16 2009: from Greenwire:


	DOJ nominee's industry experience a worry for some http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1242486605 The corporate background of President Obama's pick for the nation's top environmental litigator has spurred concerns that she is ill-suited to lead the office charged with tackling corporate polluters. Obama announced plans earlier this week to nominate Ignacia Moreno, counsel of corporate environmental programs at General Electric Corp., to serve as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division... [Alex] Matthiessen, whose group focuses on cleaning up pollution in the Hudson River, said he was particularly troubled by Moreno's tenure as counsel to GE, whose plants discharged as much as 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the Hudson River...

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'Doc Michael says:

Isn't this yet another case of getting a fox to watch the FOXhouse?