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Make sure you submit this story to the EFF's annual Foilies awards late this year or early next year. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/foilies-2017 https:
by Asparagirl 9y ago
Make sure you submit this story to the EFF's annual Foilies awards late this year or early next year.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/foilies-2017 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/foilies-2017
My Missouri Sunshine Law request won the Outrageous Fee award this year, and I was "only" being charged $1.5 million. I look forward to passing the crown to you.
- bpchaps 9y agoHah, I bittersweetingly accept!
- jessaustin 9y agoCongratulations, both for the award and for not getting your Sunshine request honored by the state of Missouri. I've filed a series of Sunshine requests with the Department of Natural Resources, and as a result of the awful things I've learned I am quite uneasy about drinking water in this state. After badgering the "Chief of Compliance and Enforcement" about his failure to take any action about polluting facilities "referred to enforcement", he finally claimed that taking polluters to court is a waste of time, because judges in this state always rule in favor of polluters. I'm not sure that's true, but if the official in his office actually believes it, it may as well be. From my limited exposure, it gets no better at the federal level. One facility I've complained about shut down completely (i.e. went out of business) for half a year (the creek downhill quickly cleared up), but the charlatan at EPA still claimed it wasn't a "recommencing discharger" as used by 40 CFR 122.47, when it sold to a new owner and opened again for business with the same shambolic unengineered leaking lagoons six months later.