Pay to play....criminals!!!-----Fired regulator: Brown pushed to waive oil safeguards.

My Way News - Fired regulator: Brown pushed to waive oil safeguards.:
"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's top oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned Gov. Jerry Brown's senior aides in 2011 that the governor's orders to override key safeguards in granting oil industry permits would violate state and federal laws protecting the state's groundwater from contamination, one of the former officials has testified.
Brown fired the regulators on Nov. 3, 2011, one day after what the fired official says was a final order from the governor to bypass safety provisions of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in granting permits to oil companies for oilfield injection wells.
Brown later boasted publicly that the dismissals led to a speed-up of oilfield permitting.
...This year, however, the state acknowledged that hundreds of the oilfield operations approved after the firings are now polluting the state's federally protected underground supplies of water for drinking and irrigation.
...an Aug. 21 court filing in a lawsuit brought by a group of Central Valley farmers who allege that oil production approved by Brown's administration has contaminated their water wells.
The lawsuit also cites at least $750,000 in contributions that oil companies made within months of the firings to what was then Brown's campaign for a state tax increase.
...Over the years, Brown openly boasted that he dismissed the two regulators to speed up the granting of oilfield permits in the nation's third biggest oil producing state.
His actions appeared at odds with Brown's image as a leading proponent of renewable energy and reduced fossil fuel consumption who recently met with Pope Francis on climate change"