Regarding SCDOT's new Chairman Henry Taylor who was VP of Legal Affairs for Laidlaw Environmental Services from 1990
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In 1992, the DHEC board, ignoring internal studies and its own staff, allowed Laidlaw to operate without posting a $133 million cash bond. After private meetings with the company, DHEC agreed to allow Laidlaw to give a simple corporate guarantee instead of making payments to a trust fund to cover estimated costs of cleaning up future leaks.
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