Just read the brief blog of Hiroko Tabuchi – a NY Times environmental and pollution reporter – outlining numerous examples of former lobbyists for environmentally destructive industries, or practices within industries, being installed to positions of responsibility for those areas within the EPA.
Former lobbyists at the E.P.A.
This strikes me as counter-productive. Ironically, it is potentially VERY productive – that is, productive in the sense of advancing, within a GOVERNING agency, the causes that these former lobbyists believe in. And additionally very productive in removing guardrails or countering forces within the agency which are central to the mission of the agency in the first place.
This here is one layer of the onion of madness!
