Kinda creepy coming from the party of personal responsibility.
It's your personal responsibility to stock up on Potassium Iodide pills, gas masks and asthma inhalers.
Kinda creepy coming from the party of personal responsibility.
Thank goodness the government is there to protect us from the evil corporations.
That is what G. Beck wanted to say..Believe it or not, it is possible to be both pro-EPA and antiwar.
PS- the FEMA death camp illuminati stuff just comes off like tinfoil hat wingnut ranting and is not helping your cause at all....
That is a violation of Private Property Rights and you can sue. You would win in a just system, not this one.Yeah, you're right. No sense in blaming polluters for my cancer, just because their pollution was dumped in my water table
That is a violation of Private Property Rights and you can sue. You would win in a just system, not this one.
Environmental group targets alleged pollution at Koch’s G-P mill in Arkansas
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2011 - An Arkansas paper mill owned by Koch Industries pumps out massive amounts of pollution in violation of the Clean Water Act, according an enforcement complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Ouachita Riverkeeper. The outflow from the plant fouls not only local water bodies but crosses the Louisiana border, staining a designated Natural and Scenic River.
The Georgia-Pacific mill in Crossett, Arkansas, is owned by Koch Industries, which is run by the Koch brothers--conservative activists who bankroll the Tea Party and other advocacy against government regulation. Many of their main targets have been environmental rules. Their plant has created horrendous conditions, including -
-Discharging 45 million gallons per day of paper-mill waste, including ammonia and chloride, and metals such as zinc, copper, and mercury. This toxic stew combines with the town of Crossett's sewage in Coffee Creek, the stream below the plant;
-Coffee Creek is covered with foam, scum and slime [see attached photos]. Besides the obvious impact on fish, a review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found effluent from the plant likely comes into contact with muskrat, beaver, turtles, ducks, turkey, deer as well as "other large mammals"; and
-From Coffee Creek, the effluent travels through Mossy Lake and to the Ouachita River just above the Louisiana state line. The discharge causes obnoxious color and nauseous odor conditions in the River (where it is a designated Natural and Scenic River).
Koch Industries has persuaded the State of Arkansas to issue the Georgia-Pacific mill a permit that in essence removes water quality standards for the creek, on the self-fulfilling grounds that it can never be restored to a biologically viable stream. Since the Coffee Creek pollution discharge permit contains few limits, it is almost impossible to violate--but Koch Industries has violated it nonetheless, the groups contend in their complaint.
"The Clean Water Act does not allow our streams to be turned into industrial sewers," stated PEER Field Director Barry Sulkin, the former Chief of Enforcement and Compliance for the Tennessee Division of Water Pollution Control. "No wonder the Kochs dislike strict federal regulation. They have covered Coffee Creek with so much foam it should be called Cappuccino Creek."
The groups' complaint was filed with the EPA Regional Administrator in Dallas invoking inherent federal authority to enforce the Clean Water Act. It demands that EPA immediately assume jurisdiction over the case to protect public health and the environment and to maintain the credibility of the national water quality program. If the EPA Region does not act, they may appeal to EPA's Assistant Administrator for Enforcement in Washington. At issue is whether Arkansas has fallen below federal minimum standards.
"This mess has long been interfering with what are supposed to be protected uses of public waterways and it is time for it to stop," said Cheryl Slavant of Ouachita Riverkeeper. "We keep hearing about EPA overreaching - well, this is a clear example of under-reaching. We need federal oversight when states surrender public waters to accommodate pollution."
That would be incorrect sir but Ron Paul does want to stregnthen private property rights. They can't violate your land becuse they have land and they own. They violate your land because they own many courts and even the Supreme Crt. Your state can enhance property rights of all citizens while the EPA takes them away. RP aknowledges property rights should be enhanced.Corporations buy and effectively remove that option\
personal responsibility would mean that those causing the toxic water table would be the ones to pay the price.
your continued spin on the AOC and the purpose of the annapolis convention is laughable.James Madison from Federalist 39, describes the change this way:
The constitutional reallocation of powers created a new form of government, unprecedented under the sun. Every previous national authority either had been centralized or else had been a confederation of sovereign states. The new American system was neither one nor the other; it was a mixture of both.
your continued spin on the AOC and the purpose of the annapolis convention is laughable.
What we need is a few hundred thousand more Federal employees with juicy pensions to straighten everything out. Move all that paper from one pile to the other.
We can just borrow some more money to pay em.
If that don't get us to the promised land of milk and honey...
Then we'll hire more.
HELLO... I made no reference to Annapolis convention.
You don't point out the spin. Your clip has nothing to do with states inability to arbitrate between themselves. You refute opinions but none of your elements tie together.
Since my comments revolve around states not having interstate arbitrating power, point out how your clip refutes it or demonstrates spin on my part. The fact is you can't. Your reference doesn't even address interstate arbitration. It's just a clip with no correlation to so-called spin.