Hoy newspaper comments that it seems to be in the government?s best interest that well-respected Environment Minister Frank Moya Pons not appear before the Senate to testify until after the presidential election. Moya Pons has been invited to testify on how Puerto Rico power plant refuse, known as fly ash abroad and rock ash in the DR, was irregularly imported to Manzanillo and Samana, but the original insistence has cooled. Dominican law bans the importing of refuse. In its page two commentary, the newspaper speculates that the request for Moya Pons to speak before the Senate may have been put aside because the latter, who has spoken very little on the topic, might reveal the truth and business interests behind the import and who in government authorized the import of the wastes and why. The columnist mentions the revelations might not be in the campaign interests of the ruling party.