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Fly ash activist or pro-union lobbyist?Published 03/09/08
A prominent Crofton activist who testified against development atop a fly ash landfill in Gambrills may have violated ethics rules by failing to inform legislators he is a paid lobbyist for a food workers union opposed to a supermarket over the site.
In his Feb. 13 testimony, Torrey Jacobsen Jr. asked the House Environmental Matters Committee to amend a bill that would control what types of landfills can hold fly ash. He urged the committee to prohibit development over fly ash sites.
If the bill was amended as Mr. Jacobsen proposed, it would stop developer Greenberg Gibbons Commercial from building the Village at Waugh...
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