Dan Zegart, a freelance investigative journalist who writes frequently on legal subjects, is the author, most recently, of Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry..
Environmental groups have warned directors of fossil fuel companies that they may be held personally liable for misleading the public about climate change.
The Bush Administration has so politicized government agencies that an entire culture of civil service professionals is being replaced by
conservative political operatives loyal only to the White House.