Odor Rule Stakeholder Workgroup

The Joplin Globe, reported in Sunday, March 11, 2007 headline, 'Not Enough Smellees' questions from Carthage Mayor Jim Woestman regarding the make-up of the State's Odor Workshop Participants. Mayor Jim Woestman said he did some research on those named to the committee and it appeared to him the group needed more representation from people who smell the odors and less from industries creating the smells. “They’ve got people on there from Changing World Technologies (which developed the RES plant), from Tyson Foods and Premium Standard Farms,” Woestman said. “It seems to me there are too many smellers and not enough smellees.”

Polluters and Cronies of Polluters
Brian Appel, Changing World Technology
Jamie Burr, Tyson Foods, Inc.
Don Nikodim, Missouri Pork Association
Dave Drennan, Missouri Dairy Association
Dave Townsend, Premium Standard Farms
Missouri Farm Bureau

Environmentalists
Terry Spence, Citizens legal Environmental Action Network (CLEAN)
Ted Heisel, Washington University for CLEAN
Roger Walker, Regulatory Environmental Group for Missouri
Dwayne (Bill) Miller, Missouri Stream team
Ken Midkiff, Sierra Club

Questionable position or presumed neutral
Leanne Tippett Mosby, Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Division of Environmental Quality
Robert Brundage, Newman, Comley, & Ruth for MO, AG
Jay Shipman, Missouri Association of Counties
Morris Westfall, Governor's Ombudsman
Jane Drummond, Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS)
Dan Engemann, Department of Agriculture
Joe Bindbeutel, Missouri Attorney's General Office
Joe Engeln, DNR
Brian D. Newby, DNR, Air Pollution Control Program

If I have pegged someone in the wrong category, please let me know. I guess that we'll have to wait for the first group vote, for those listed as questionable or presumed neutral, to make their position known. We are watching!