Arizona's Own Espresso Pundit: Going to the Honey-Well

The Tribune had a recent story that caught my eye.

Honeywell International has agreed to pay a $5 million civil fine and contribute an additional $1 million to fund a regional climate-change study to settle charges the company violated Arizona clean-water laws for more than 30 years.

Actually, it's not the story that caught my eye, it was this line:

"contribute an additional $1 million to fund a regional climate-change study"

That seems odd, Clean Water Act settlements aren't supposed to be used to fund climate studies.

Then I dug a little deeper to see the details of what Honeywell's million dollars is really funding.

The complaint says that the money goes to...the Western Governor's Association to be earmarked for the Western Climate Initiative.

Isn't the Western Climate Initiative one of the Governor's pet projects?...