Just in case you think the government is protecting you from skanky drinking water, here’s some hot news from the New York Times – “In the last five years alone, chemical factories, manufacturing plants and other workplaces have violated water pollution laws more than half a million times.”
Not to leave it that, the Times goes on to the juicy stuff – “State officials have repeatedly ignored obvious illegal dumping, and the Environmental Protection Agency, which can prosecute polluters when states fail to act, has often declined to intervene.”
Fortunately, the Clean Water Act contains a citizen’s suit provision, whereby Joe the Plumber can sue polluters on his own behalf. Try it, you’ll like it!
posted by Mudd
0 Responses
Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.