Shitstain's Superfund Nominee Must Avoid All Decisions On 170+ Sites Created By His Old Employer

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President Trump's pick to oversee the Superfund cleanup program has agreed to avoid decisions related to more than 170 sites for which his former employer is partially responsible.

Ethics documents obtained by E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act mean Peter Wright, who is awaiting Senate confirmation to lead EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management, won't be able to weigh in on roughly 14 percent of all the toxic waste sites on the National Priorities List of Superfund sites eligible for federal cleanup dollars until July 2020.

Wright promised to avoid getting involved with 171 proposed and final sites on the National Priorities List as well as nearly 130 sites that have been removed from the list or may one day be added to it, an EPA spreadsheet shows.

An EPA spokesman stressed that Wright would still be able to work on the majority of toxic waste sites under EPA's management. "Mr. Wright may work on 86 percent of all Superfund sites," EPA spokesman James Hewitt told E&E News.

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1. Previous employer: Dow Chemical / DuPont