Rebuffing bipartisan pressure from members of Congress, the Bush administration's top environmental regulator on Tuesday declined to stop the BP refinery in northwest Indiana from dumping more pollution into Lake Michigan. Chicago Tribune | previously
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this is outrageous...why does indiana which has some of the smallest lake front access of all the great lake states get to dump poison which effects many more people than the people just in indiana. agh!
another form of terrorism.
I think under the Bush administration the "Protection" in the EPA has come to mean the same thing as "Protection" does organized crime.
Why, John? Because Indianastan is filled with a bunch of selfish small-minded visionless yahoos.
well just look at the map i posted. the area of the great lakes basin effects mostly the other states in the surrounding area and hardly effects indiana at all. this issue should expose the heart of what sustainability and the globalization should be considering--the affects of one communities desires and how they are integral to effecting other groups--in this case a vast number of people outside of the state in question.
this is what regulations should be answering, and why isn't there a governing body for the great lakes which arbitrate these issues instead of the feds? in fact, i think the future of local government and sustainability requires, no, demands that communities should be separated into aquifer districts including areas which cross now defined nation-state borders...so that this types of issues are determined by the peoples who use the water and the resources...
by the way, i don't speak to this issue as a chicagoan, but rather as a native michigander.
I totally agree. But hasn't New York previously taken the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania to court for polluting their air, given the industrial/mining activity there and the fact that the winds almost always travel west to east? Did that legistlation go anywhere?
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