Relax: Gutting the EPA Won't Make Your Air Dirtier and Water More Polluted
There have been diminishing returns to federal pollution regulation for a long time
There have been diminishing returns to federal pollution regulation for a long time
Environmental Protection Agency
Rolling back a "federal land grab" or instituting an "unmitigated disaster for fish and wildlife, hunting and fishing, and clean water"?
Clean-up efforts are in a race to beat the coming floods.
Fearmongering seems to be backfiring
Unlike private companies, they can't sue their government
Environmental Protection Agency
No regulation is "appropriate" if it does significantly more harm than good, argues majority opinion.
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
From NASA and Texas A&M
Owes more than $3 million to 20 creditors
Giving feds the authority to impose solutions on states
Harbin, capital of the Heilongjiang province
"We consider this to be the most important environmental carcinogen, more so than passive smoking"
Too much pollution for Brussels
In the groundwater in Texas
Chemicals may impair their ability to fight off parasites
Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered.
Obviously already crafted and waiting for the president's announcement
Sewage overflows and storm runoffs blamed
Tells states to do their own investigations
Even though U.S. contribution is lowest since the '90s
Potential water pollution would impact "purity" laws
Lied for decades about chemical contamination
King George Island hosts at least half a dozen research stations within an area of about 16 square miles
Tanks are already long past intended life-span
Response from citizens not very positive
Local tax authority will collect the money, which inevitably will lead to bribes and corruption
Heavily subsidized manufacturing of panels produces tons of hazardous waste
Question of whether states, municiplaities can establish regulations for cross-country haulers
Old vehicles to be removed as part of a pollutant reduction strategy
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