Trump Administration Cuts Back Federal Protections For Streams And Wetlands

[Benton]

(01-27-2020, 01:38 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Here is what happens with "state regulation".  The Champion paper Mill in North Carolina dumped massive amounts of toxins in the Pigeon River for many years because they were on the eastern edge of north Carolina and all the poison flowed into Tennessee.  North Carolina did not care because their water was not getting polluted and there was nothing Tennessee could do to regulate a factory in a different state.

Same thing happened with emissions from high sulfur coal burned in power plants.  The resulting acid rain fell in different states from where the coal was burned.

I live where the end of the Ohio meets the Mississippi. You can see the difference in the waters. Not that the Miss is anything pristine, but the Ohio is some nasty, nasty stuff.