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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Environment - "Kasich names heads of state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Agency"

Aaron Marshall of the Cleveland Plain Dealer has the story. Some quotes:

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio is open for business.

That is the message Gov.-elect John Kasich said he wanted to send the business community when he tapped a former American Electric Power executive to head the state's Department of Natural Resources Environmental and an Indiana bureaucrat to head the state's Environmental Protection Agency.

Coming aboard as the state's new ODNR director is C. David Mustine * * *

Meanwhile, Kasich reached into Indiana's state environmental bureaucracy to nab Scott Nally, who will be the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency director.

"Indiana has done it right," he said, noting that Nally helped whittle down an 800-environmental permit backlog while working as assistant commissioner of that state's Department of Environmental Management. "We have to break the grip of bureauocracy."

According to this ILB entry from March 3, 2005, Scott Nally, (Assistant Commissioner, External Affairs) was formerly with Perdue Farms.

Yesterday the Indianapolis Star reported: "Florida's next governor hires Indiana prison leader." The lede: "The recently elected governor of Florida has hired the Indiana correction commissioner to run the Florida prison system."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 30, 2010 02:58 PM
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