Joseph Pizarchik has been nominated to be the head of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). He has for many years been part and parcel of the problems we are now dealing with in the mining fields of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Joe (let's call him Joe) was head of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Mining and Reclamation. As head of such, he allowed mining companies to dump their coal ash, containing such yummy delights as mercury and arsenic. And, views it today as an "insignificant" problem.
As a bought and paid for shill for the longwall coal mining industry, Mr. Pizarchik has great standing. But, as a representative of the people of the United States with duty of oversight and enforcement of the mining laws of the nation? Not even in the worst possible scenario.
Foisting this unsavory character onto the nation would be akin to hiring Al Capone as head of the ATF. This guy should get about a 5 minute hearing and then be promptly arrested and jailed for his complicity in water theft, home invasion and destruction and the absolute ruin he has caused the people of Pennsylvania.
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Couldn't agree more! Joe is clearly all too cozy in the pockets of coal companies to pay any real consideration to the fact that actions he has overseen are destroying people's health and entire communities.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, Cassie. It is beyond me how this environmental criminal can be thought to possess any quality, which would allow him to have this assignment.
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