Let’s pay to stop pollution before our health suffers
House Republicans (mostly driven by the tea partiers) want to get rid of “cumbersome environmental regulations” that allow the EPA to regulate and prevent waste products (pollution) from being spewed into the environment. They have inserted at least 39 provisions in a reauthorization bill to strip the EPA of its authority. They act as if the environment is something far away, something that shouldn’t concern us anyway. People, the environment is our home, we live in the environment. The water we drink, that is generated by the environment. The air we breathe, that is the environment. The food we eat, the grass we mow, the rivers we paddle, the land we live on, the oceans that sustain us, the wood that makes up our houses …; this is the environment!
Prior to EPA regulations, individuals and industry were able to throw their trash and dump their waste into the environment, free of charge, no treatment necessary. Don’t you remember the roadside dumps where people just threw their trash anywhere? Does no one remember the tragic Woburn Superfund case, made famous in the book “A Civil Action?” Long story short, industrial waste was thrown out the door and emitted into the air, causing massive contamination of air and water with tragic results to the people who lived nearby.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110730-OPINION-107300304
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