It was June 2012 when Gov. Rick Snyder and Michael Finney, the CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, attended a ceremony at the Severstal steel plant in Dearborn.
The two spoke with the CEO of the steel plant, Sergei Kuznetsov.
A Detroit Free Press investigation raises questions about what happened after that conversation in the summer of 2012.
The Michigan Economic Development Corp., Gov. Rick Snyder's business-promoting agency, worked for months behind the scenes with one of the state's most flagrantly polluting businesses as the company lobbied the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for permission to release even higher levels of pollutants and avoid current air quality regulations, DEQ e-mails obtained by the Free Press show.
Keith Matheny, a writer for the Detroit Free Press, joined us to talk about the investigation.
*Listen to the full interview above.
