Crooked Corporations and the Politicians They Own

[Minimalist]

North Carolina variant:

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/chief-nc...r-quality/

Chief NC scientist resigns, accuses GOP administration of misleading the public about water quality

Testing, however, showed that well water near the coal ash sites still had levels of hexavalent chromium higher than in the municipal water supply. And Duke Energy, it turned out, had lobbied the state to reverse the do-not-drink order, even though nothing about most of the storage sites had changed. There were still unlined coal ash sites dotting the state, and there were still toxins in the water.

The optics for the state government were bad. McCrory was an employee of Duke Energy for nearly 30 years before becoming governor, and several state employees disagreed with the decision to reverse the do-not-drink order. This included Ken Rudo, a toxicologist for the Department of Health and Human Services, who believed that it was Duke’s connection to the government that led to the reversal of the order.

Someone tell me again about the free hand of the "market?"

[brewer]

Where is Erin?

[Thumpalumpacus]

So what? There's money to be made!