Republican politicians complain that the Environmental Protection Agency shouldn’t be able to to enforce any new environmental regulations because excessive enforcement by the EPA is ruining American business.
Tell that to the people of Frisco, Texas, who are suffering lead pollution throughout their community because the EPA refuses to enforce regulations that are already on the books. The local citizen group Frisco Unleaded is filing a lawsuit to force the regulation that the EPA refuses to put into place. “Frisco Unleaded and the Downwinders at Risk Education Fund view this lawsuit as an action of last resort after decades of regulatory failure concerning the Exide lead smelter,” says Colette McCadden, an officer of the organization.
Courts aren’t helping either when energy companies can get air quality improvements blocked because they would have an effect.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-ed-epa-cross-state-pollution-20120823,0,5385545.story
Yeah, and fracking is doing a GREAT job polluting the groundwater, causing earthquakes, polluting the air with even more toxic stuff than CO2, causing birth defects, cancer, tumors, brain disease, kidney disease and makes nearby homes both uninhabitable and unsellable! They also have a secret deal with doctors – doctors can’t disclose the fracking industry’s secret (deadly) ingredients as a cause of any disease. Good ol’ Dick Cheney’s secret meeting at the beginning of the Bush administration bought them immunity from the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. We’re becoming China!