EPA top official for the Southeast, Trey Glenn, arrested on felony ethics charges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/epa-official-arrested-on-felony-ethics-charges-in-alabama/2018/11/15/31fbbf5a-e92b-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html?utm_term=.47297f56aeb8


EPA official arrested on felony ethics charges in Alabama

By Michael Biesecker?|?AP

November 15 at 6:07 PM

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s top environmental official for the Southeast was arrested Thursday on criminal ethics charges in Alabama reported to be related to a scheme to help a coal company avoid paying for a costly toxic waste cleanup.

Trey Glenn, 47, was briefly booked into a county jail in Birmingham before being released on a $30,000 bond. Glenn was appointed in August 2017 to serve as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Atlanta, which oversees operations in eight states stretching from the Carolinas to Mississippi.

A grand jury indicted Glenn and his former business partner Scott Phillips earlier this week. Prior to Glenn’s appointment at EPA, he and Phillips worked for the coal company Drummond Co. to build state and local opposition to a federal Superfund cleanup in Birmingham that their client would have had to help fund.

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It’s the second time the Alabama Ethics Commission has accused Glenn of wrongdoing. In 2007, the commission voted unanimously that there was probable cause that Glenn, then the head of the state’s environmental enforcement agency, violated laws to get his job and to obtain personal trips. Among the issues was a trip to Disney World taken by Glenn and his family that was paid for by a public relations firm representing a client with business before his agency. Although he was not indicted on criminal charges that time, the resulting scandal led to Glenn’s resignation in 2009.

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He was featured on TRMS a few nights ago. Rachel also covered the story of train boxcars bringing human waste from NY and NJ to Alabama.