President Barack Obama's nominees for the top waste office slots at EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE) are drawing the ire of environmentalists who fear that the candidates will not pursue sufficiently stringent cleanups at contaminated sites, and may even relax cleanup standards in favor of economic redevelopment.rn"Basically, there's no one on Obama's staff we can go to," one environmentalist says. "There's a terrific debate going on in the environmental community as to whether to speak up publicly about this, because if we do we burn our access," the source says about Obama's nomination of Dr. Ines Triay to head DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM) and Mathy Stanislaus to head EPA's Office of Solid Waste & Emergency Response.
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