Nnanji -> RE: Time to roll back the clock (6/29/2017 6:04:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Well the EPA is about to dump the regulations that protect the drinking water of 117 million Americans. I mean, no big deal, the Flint river was so polluted it was killing people, and so what is adding 117 million more? EPA moves to ax Obama-era Clean Water Rule, which protects drinking water for one-third of Americans Look, I dont give a fuck about how people feel about climate change, but considering some of President Trump's plans dealing with the EPA, do we really want to go back to this? And considering it was the GOP that got those first anti pollution regulations passed, it really says a lot about how far the GOP has sunk. Of course, since most of the people affected by the change would fall into the lower income brackets (those that can afford it will buy bottled water) it will solve some of the current GOP's problem, how to deal with the poor. I once had a college graduate with a degree in "The environment" come and work for me as an intern. I asked that college grad how much Chemistry they had taken to get a degree in "the environment". The answer was "none. Physics...none. Math above algebra level...none. It was four years of environmental propaganda. The goal of such degrees was then to get a job with the government and "regulate" all of us. They look forward to writing the regulations, for the good of all of us, that are thousands and thousands of pages long based on any small law passed by the elected officials. In California, I found myself, often, being regulated by nonsense EPA regulations, costing tens of thousands of dollars, because the EPA was having some problem in the Great Lakes area. In California, because we so zealously love those regulations, the cost of compliance adds about a quarter of a million dollars to the cost of a new house. The EPA has been out of control for a long time. Most states now have their own departments that duplicate the EPA, or assume authority therefrom. Those, at least the ones I've spent years working with in California, are out of control as well. For years I've said that the elected officials that pass the laws should be required to read and approve the regulations that the unelected officials then tack onto the laws and use to regulate. In my mind this is a good thing. This OP, is a classic example of those people with college degrees that are really just four years of propaganda with no real science knowledge. The sky is falling only to the extent that we've given power to regulators to act like unsupervised children in a candy store. It is certainly way past time they had adult supervision.
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