[CPEO-BIF] "Regulators of Asheville [North Carolina] area Superfund site subpoenaed"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Regulators of Asheville area Superfund site subpoenaed
Legislator: EPA staff refused to appear

by Joel Burgess
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
February 22, 2012

A state House committee investigating a Buncombe County hazardous  
waste site has taken the rare and possibly unprecedented step of  
issuing subpoenas for federal environmental regulators based out of  
Atlanta.

The Select Committee to Investigate the Handling of the CTS  
Contamination Site in Buncombe County on Wednesday issued the summons  
to appear for four Environmental Protection Agency employees who  
chairman Rep. Tim Moffitt said have refused to speak to the panel.

Residents of the Skyland site have criticized the EPA employees,  
saying they failed to protect residents from contaminated drinking  
water and then sought to cover up mistakes.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120223/NEWS/302230038/CTS- 
regulators-subpoenaed?odyssey=tab

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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