Pouring Oil in Troubled Waters 0
Carl Hissan discusses the destructive insanity of the Republican Party’s war on the EPA. A nugget:
The corporate mentality toward pollution has changed because the alternatives are heavy fines, criminal penalties and savage publicity. A reminder of why we still need the EPA was last month’s oil spill on the Yellowstone River, which affected ranchers, farmers, fishing guides and rafting companies. It also occurred seven months after Exxon Mobil insisted that its pipeline would never rupture because it was buried too deep.
I remember the bright orange eye-burning noontime summer skies of Washington, D. C., smog alerts.
Returning to those days, as Republicans seem to want, is not a good idea.
