Thursday, May 27, 2010

EPA Fugitives

The EPA has this awesome "Fugitives" page showing all the environmental criminals they're trying to find.

Among these fugitives are such dastardly dudes as: John Karayannides who is charged with dumping two tons of oil-contaminated grain into the ocean; Peter Solemdal,wanted for aiding and abetting false entries into an oil record book (he's one of a few of these folks they're looking for); and Jun Wang, wanted for illegally discharging fuel from his tanker truck into Little Beaver Creek (no jokes about "Wang and the Little Beaver" are allowed, sorry).

Conspicuously absent from this list of fugitives are any of the executives of BP, Transocean, or Haliburton. I guess if you dump a bunch of gas in a creek or two tons of contaminated grain into the ocean you're a criminal, but spewing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean after doing everything possible to cut costs and "expensive" safety features on the well so you can make even more than the $3 billion (with a "b") in profit you made last quarter, that's just good business.

[sigh]

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