Pollution pouring into nation's waters far beyond legal limits

[rodeodance]

Source: Chronicle Washington Bureau



Pollution pouring into nation's waters far beyond legal limits

Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, October 12, 2007
Chevron's refinery in Richmond dumped more mercury and ot... Polluting Local Waters. Chronicle Graphic

(10-12) 04:00 PDT Washington --

More than half of all industrial and municipal facilities across the country dumped more sewage and other pollutants into the nation's waterways than allowed under the Clean Water Act, according to a report released Thursday by an environmental group.

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Environmentalists said the figures show that industrial plants and municipal wastewater facilities continue to flout the law because of insufficient policing by federal regulators.

"The bottom line is the Bush administration isn't doing enough enforcement of the Clean Water Act," said Christy Leavitt, clean water advocate for U.S. PIRG, a federation of state Public Interest Research Groups.

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[kestrel91316]

1. kestrel sez:

"The bottom line is the Bush administration isn't doing ANY enforcement of the Clean Water Act."

Can't cut into those ever-increasing quarterly profits, you know.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. So Bu**sh** is trying to check off EVERY item on the "worse than Nixon" checklist? nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I was hoping this was only the case in Texas

Sorry to hear that the rest of the nation is in as bad of shape too.

[ThomCat]

4. They know damned well that the government has given orders

to suspend enforcement. They have no incentive to obey environmental regulations, and a profit motive to dump as much as they can.

x(

[tanyev]

13. And then if the people raise too much of a fuss to ignore it,

they will be able to give Halliburton a huge no-bid contract to "clean" things up.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. BUSH ADMIN IS LIKE A CANCER...

IT SPREADS TO EVERYTHING

[roxnev]

6. what do you think

With a republican President Mr big get to do what he wants

[intheflow]

7. kick

[Spinzonner]

8. Just the usual case of a Bush Administration Department

doing its quality work.

And they managed to do it without Browny

[paparush]

9. No one could have predicted that our corporate government ...

would be soft on corporate polluting.
:sarcasm:

[alfredo]

10. If you and I got caught taking samples of pollution, we could be put

under suspicion of terrorist activities or even industrial espionage.

I wonder if companies could declare their pollution a trade secret?

[sutz12]

11. '$8.8 million in fines '

Yeah, that'll scare the folks over at ConocoPhilips. Way to really rip them at the bottom line. :sarcasm:

:shrug:

[truthisfreedom]

12. Bottle it up and ship it to the White House. They'll take notice when the water coolers start

tasting funky. You have to rub their noses in this shit to get them to stop raiding the US Treasury long enough to respond to this threat to public safety.