1. As Chemical Manufacturers Assoc.'s lawyer he was working on behalf of manufacturers of cancer causing chemicals to stop the EPA from being able to identify chemicals that would cause cancer.
From the New York Times (Industry Fights Use of Animal Tests to Assess Cancer Risk, July 25, 1989:
David J. Hayes, a lawyer representing the Chemical Manufacturers Association, a leading industry trade group, said, ''Our fundamental concern is that the National Toxicology Program is taking a shortcut in deciding whether a chemical is a human carcinogen by ignoring readily available data.''Government officials involved in the cancer report said they could not comment while the matter was in litigation. But one high-ranking Government environmental health official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that if industry prevailed, the Government would ''either list very few compounds in the report, which would make it useless, or spend years litigating over each compound'' before it could be listed as causing cancer.
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202431807260&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1
From the New York Times (Industry Fights Use of Animal Tests to Assess Cancer Risk, July 25, 1989):
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2. Ford Motor company had dumped lead based paint, benzene, arsenic and chromium and other highly toxic hazardous waste at the Ringwood site near homes and streams mostly affecting the Ramapough Mountain Indians. Despite high incidents of serious illness, disease and deaths attributed to Ford's dumping, Hayes, as Ford's lawyer, tried to stick the cost of cleanup of Ford's toxic waste dump on this rural, economically disadvantaged Native American community. The attorneys coming forward on behalf of the residents (to take on Ford and David Hayes), included Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the late Johnnie Cochran's firm.
Bergen County Record (August 9, 2005):
Ford dumped paint, solvents, and car parts from 1967 through 1973 on the site off Peter's Mine Road in one of the nation's oldest iron mining areas. Ford's contractors are now in the midst of a fifth cleanup effort, removing tons of dried paint sludge from the wooded site, which includes state parkland. Arsenic, benzene, and chromium - powerful carcinogens - have been found.Streams from the area feed into the Wanaque Reservoir, but officials say the water is safe.Residents, most of whom are Ramapough Mountain Indians, report high incidences of serious illnesses and deaths, and blame their diseases on the sludge.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/14/22835/880/369/672879
Associated Press, Ford: City should pay almost $17 million toward toxic cleanup, April 26, 2007,
(Knight-Ridder, Big-name firms will make legal case for cleanup, health checks, October 4, 2005)
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3. Hayes was a lawyer/lobbyist at the DC firm Latham Watkins, which represents the most despicable corporations seeking to plunder and pollute the very lands Hayes is supposed to protect as Deputy Director of the Interior. Latham & Watkins never saw a developer, polluting industry or resource extracting client they didn't want to work for. Former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt went to work for Latham & Watkins after leaving office (with Hayes in tow), which was looked with complete disgust by the conservation community.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/14/22835/880/369/672879
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3100
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?lname=Latham+%26+Watkins&year=2007
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0727-04.htm
**Sempra Energy and their subsidiary: SDG&E (San Diego Gas & Electric); in league with the BLM (which is under direct authority of the Department of the Interior), are currently represented by Latham & Watkins-- fighting Sempra/SDG&E's unlawful permitting and false environmental, public safety reports (among many other complaints) of the unbuilt Sunrise Powerlink 500 KV transmission line through San Diego county (ultimately for Sempra's Los Angeles market)
Sempra Energy lobbyist and lawyer: As legal council for Sempra, David Hayes helped Sempra exert tremendous pressure to block the Penchenga Band of Luiseno Indians rightful control of their ancestral lands and one of California's greatest natural treasures - The Great Oak Ranch.
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| Penchenga band of Luiseno Indian's Sacred Great Oak 1500 yr old tree |
...David Hayes is the WORST choice the US could have made...he only serves the greed of corporations. President Obama did impose conflict of interest restrictions on his White House transition team...unfortunately, the restrictions are only from handling issues in areas of policy where they have lobbied over the last YEAR - or from seeking to influence the same agencies for ONE YEAR.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/The-Interior-Departments-revolving-door-102102389.html
