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Originally Posted by stevieray
IIRC, didn't the Ohio river literally catch on fire a liitle over a hundred years ago? ..due to toxins being dumped from the manufacturing industry? (specifically the auto industry?)
pretty sure that's not gonna happen again.
...think I'll go for a drive.
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I'm glad you are sure of that. Because I see industry being exempted from the very regulations that have prevented environmental degradation.
For example, the gas industry has been exempted from many major environmental regulations, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Drinking Water Act, and the Superfund Act.
I wish I were as confident as you. But I see my backyard being trashed because the U.S. government has seen fit to exempt them from laws proven to be effective. And because Pennsylvania has a governor that is in bed with the gas industry and who has appointed gas industry advocates to positions within the PA Department of Environmental Conservation.