In response to the story about a judge ordering
environmentalists to post a $10,000 bond, rather than focus on the
amount of the bond, or the legitimacy or strength of the case,
HCN could have openly debated the chilling
effect of prohibitive costs on the public’s right to
environmental justice (HCN, 2/6/06: Judge orders litigating enviros
to pony up). Or, it could have reconsidered its outrageous previous
statement that Molloy is the “greenest judge in the West” (HCN,
2/16/04: Jurisdiction shopping made simple). True to form,
HCN’s sympathy for the destroyers of the
environment outshines its regard for those trying to protect it.
Steve Kelly
Bozeman, Montana
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Sympathy for destroyers.
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