1/29/2004
Don't let the screen door hit you!
The St. Pete Times headline says it all -- State: DEP chief will join company he helped.
David Struhs to leave the state Dept. of Environmental Protection to take a job with a paper company he once regulated with a light hand. But this isn't a pay-off, uh-uh. (Tallahassee Dem version here. The Pensalcola News Journal story, with details on his helpfulness to International Paper, here.)
Most Florida Environmentalists say "good riddance" with the exception of the go-along/get-along Florida Audubon Society. Florida Sierra has posted the case against David Struhs in handy PDF form. This was put that together back when Struh was rumored to be in the running to head the federal EPA.
He will be mainly remembered for weakening Everglades clean-up and for allowing a cement plant near the Ichetucknee River.
"My goal is to now take many of the lessons you have provided me here and apply them in a global context," Struhs said in an e-mail to DEP employees.
Many fear that he will.
David Struhs to leave the state Dept. of Environmental Protection to take a job with a paper company he once regulated with a light hand. But this isn't a pay-off, uh-uh. (Tallahassee Dem version here. The Pensalcola News Journal story, with details on his helpfulness to International Paper, here.)
Most Florida Environmentalists say "good riddance" with the exception of the go-along/get-along Florida Audubon Society. Florida Sierra has posted the case against David Struhs in handy PDF form. This was put that together back when Struh was rumored to be in the running to head the federal EPA.
He will be mainly remembered for weakening Everglades clean-up and for allowing a cement plant near the Ichetucknee River.
"My goal is to now take many of the lessons you have provided me here and apply them in a global context," Struhs said in an e-mail to DEP employees.
Many fear that he will.
