By Kyle Whitmire
...Charges include multiple violations of Alabama’s Ethics Act, (click here) including soliciting a thing of value from a principal, lobbyist or subordinate, and receiving money in addition that received in one’s official capacity, according to the Alabama Ethics Commission.
Before being appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the Region 4 administrator of the EPA, Trey Glenn worked closely with the Birmingham-based law firm Balch & Bingham and one of its clients, Drummond Co., to fight EPA efforts to test and clean up neighborhoods in north Birmingham and Tarrant....
By John Archibald
Scott Phillips, a former member of the Alabama Environmental Management Commission, and EPA regional administrator Trey Glenn were indicted by an Alabama grand jury.
I’m feeling like Fred G. Sanford right now.
This is the big one. I’m coming Elizabeth.
Shocked. Toxic shocked, even.
Because a Jefferson County grand jury took up where the feds left off. Because the quest to hold the powerful to account continues one more time in the saga surrounding polluted north Birmingham. Because Trey Glenn, the head of the EPA for the Southeast region and a shill for polluters from way back, was just charged with crimes for his role in the toxic north Birmingham bribery scandal.
And Scott Phillips, a former member of the Alabama Environmental Management Commission who took a contract from Balch & Bingham to help discourage cleanup of north Birmingham and prevent EPA expansion into Tarrant, was charged on the same day for related crimes.
Great googly moogly!
Can this be happening? Really? Charges against powerful Alabamians who admittedly worked to protect the interests of powerful friends while demeaning low-income residents who must live and die with their choices?...
I don't know what saint decided to take the people of Alabama under his wing, but, this is the best news the people will embrace as a promise of a new form of real justice and change of their circumstances. I hope this saintly conduct continues and spreads through the entire southeast.
THANK YOU!
I don't know what saint decided to take the people of Alabama under his wing, but, this is the best news the people will embrace as a promise of a new form of real justice and change of their circumstances. I hope this saintly conduct continues and spreads through the entire southeast.
THANK YOU!
