Dear Chair Walters and Members of the AEMC Personnel Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on Lance LeFleur’s performance as the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM)…

An opinion column by Kyle Whitmire.

Even as 3M Co. was arguing that a costly reverse osmosis filtration plant was unnecessary for a water authority downstream from its Decatur plant, it was violating an EPA order by discharging a chemical into the river that can only efficiently be removed with reverse osmosis technology.