Minnesota officials surveilled activists urging closure of waste incinerator, emails show
County officials sent an employee who is also an environmental justice activist to collect intelligence, among other tactics, emails show.
The information was then used to help successfully kill state-level environmental legislation opposed by the incinerator’s leadership, and try to stay one step ahead of activist campaigns and protests.
In another instance, a county employee presenting himself as an ally allegedly tried to obtain the identity of a whistleblower, a recording shows.
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