his name is trey glenn. president trump appointed him to run the biggest region in the country for the epa. it covers eight states in the southeast. john archibald, the pulitzer prize winning columnist wrote a column at the time when trey glenn was pointed in which he john archibald could not contain himself. he wrote, quote, ha ha exclamation point, that guy now heads the environmental protection agency? it's like roy moore leading the aclu. but then it got better. after trump appointed that guy to run the epa for the whole quarter of the country, for the whole southeastern united states, that guy now is a high-ranking federal employee eventually had to make financial disclosures. when his disclosures came out a few months ago, alabama learned for the first time among the folks who had been paying him since he left his job running the state environmental agency before he got appointed by trump to run the epa for the whole southeastern united states, among the people who put him on the payroll were the poop

appointed trey glenn as regional administrator of the e.p.a. in august of last year despite a history of ethical issues ironically mr glenn's indictment may actually help alabama clean up some environmental messes molly barrows contributor with america's lawyer is here to explain molly welcome back what happened with mr glenn. trade glenn has been a center of ethics controversy for the state of alabama for some time but in essence he was a lobbyist working for a law firm opposing e.p.a. cleanup efforts in some predominately black neighborhoods north of birmingham where the soil was affected with substances like arsenic and lead and so the communities around there have been trying to get the soil cleaned up and one of the companies that was at the center of that was drummond company and they were looking at paying twenty three million dollars just to start with the clean up this area so in order to get this cleanup underway they needed these particular neighborhoods listed on the e.p.a.'s national priorities list before glen became a trump appoi

trey glenn denied the charges. a grand jury indicted glenn earlier this week. he was arrested yesterday in birmingham and released on $30,000 bail. >>> california has recommended new restrictions on a pesticide linked to brain damage in babies. chlorpyrifos made by dow dupont is currently used on about 60 different crops. california's department of pesticide regulation issued temporary guidelines that include banning it from crop dusting and discontinuing its use on most crops. they ordered the epa to remove the pesticide from sale in the u.s. the epa is appealing the ruling. >>> if you've started your holiday shopping and are thinking about buying all the gifts in the 12 days of christmas, you'll have to pay more this year. all the gifts will set you back thirty nine thousand ninety 4 dollars ninety 3. that's 450 bucks more than last year. some items like the pear tree, two turtledoves are the same price. but the price of five gold rings went down. brook. >> someone needs to explain to me where you buy a leaping lord. >> i don't even know. >> thanks so much, d

pollution enforcement case it's netted a bunch of other lobbyists and lawyers and now it's got trey glenn and you know the thing is you know this individual was put into this position to basically run the e.p.a. in a southeastern us states. by the former e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt who really emphasized putting lobbyists and other folks from industry indicate he enforcement positions at the e.p.a. and that was exactly what this southeast administrator who was just indicted that was his background his background was working as a lobbyist for industry and so it's really not that much of a shock when lobbyists for industry and up getting indicted. even you know tyson i mean you've watched this over the years that i haven't and i know a lot of boom busters around the world have. when you it's one thing to say we're going to put some industry people in here and they're either going to be you know the foxes guarding the chicken house that happens it stinks no good hate it argue against it thank gosh there's people like you who fight against it but not properly vetting people people who ar