New Jersey?
Posted on 06/19/2014 8:39:20 PM PDT by chessplayer
PAULSBORO — Standing in the shadow of the Paulsboro Refining Company and right next to the Delaware River, representatives from Environment New Jersey and Mom's Clean Air Force released a report showing millions of pounds of chemicals have been released into the state's waterways.
Approximately 206 million pounds of toxic chemicals, from ammonia and phenol to zinc, sodium nitrate and hydrogen sulfide, were released into waterways in the United States in 2012, according to the report, with 5.862 million of those pounds being in New Jersey — making it the 14th highest in the country.
Maureen Cervantes, a lifelong Paulsboro resident, discussed her personal experiences with environmental problems stemming from pollution in the borough. From breathing problems in her family to destroyed property due to chemical releases, she has seen the issues Paulsboro residents face when it comes to the industry in town.
"I have trees that die, I can't plant things in my backyard, nothing will grow but weeds," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
IBTZ. You need to regulate your filthy mouth and quit attacking Conservatives who favor free enterprise.
The market, when it's not hampered by burdensome regulations from the likes of the NLRB, OSHA and the EPA, does just fine with the meddling from the government. Unions and the minimum wage leave corporations no choice but to cut a few small corners here and there. One the alphabet agencies are eliminated and confiscatory taxes abolished, corporations can then become good citizens, just as they were during the Coolidge and Reagan years.
If people were REALLY concerned about the environment, they would want the EPA to relax the rules a bit (like yes, it is okay to drill or mine within 2 miles of a spotted owl’s nest, or your waste water does not need to be cleaner than the naturally mineralized river you are putting it into). This would promote more mining, manufacturing, drilling, etc. here in the U.S. where we have some pretty good rules. And less of it would go to China, Indonesia, etc. where the rules (if any) are really poor.
I used to work in NJ on hazardous waste sites years ago. I recall one EPA mandate was for something like 0.5 parts/million of some substance. Trouble was the labs could only measure to something like 1 ppm!
The EPA is like Unions. The EPA had its day in the seventies cleaning up the rivers, etc. so they would support fisheries, etc.; and the unions helped stop 8 year olds from working 18-hour days. But now they just go too far on everything.
BTW - it is a real struggle to even grow grass on my yard. (All the fir tree needles make it too acidic).
Liberals on the bus go “whine whine whine”.
Check your sources.
And thats the knee jerk reaction of libs when they see or hear something they don’t like. They say “check your sources.” Greed rules. It’s always been that way. I’m far from being a lefty, but I have the common sense to know that unbridled big business would strip mine every square inch of this country if they could get away with it. They don’t give a rats ass if their own children drink poisoned water or breathe filthy air. You think they care about yours? Theres a reason big business goes to China. They know the Chinese govt doesn’t care if their people don’t have clean water or air.
I just wonder what else you disagree with this administration on? Do you agree that it's ok to use the IRS to go after whatever political party does not agree with the current party in power? Just imagine what parties would do if regulations were done away with like so many on the left want.
Oh - wait.....
I remember the good old days, back when the largest polluter was the US Defense Mapping Agency which dumped thousands of gallons of various inks into the Potomac River every day.
Your very name implies that you tolerate dihydrogen monoxide in the water supply.
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/clean_energy/ew3/corn-ethanol-and-water-quality.pdf
A good article on the effects of going “green” by using ethanol.
Corn requires WAY MORE water and fertilizer than other crops. Fertilizer that ends up as unwanted nutrients in the rivers, lakes, and ocean. All sorts of other problems with ethanol of course.
Get out of the Twilight Zone. You sound like a whiney liberal from the 1970’s.
Your a walking talking point of liberal crap. We’ve spent billions upon billions of dollars since those days and regulated the hell out of everything. If you have a problem with “millions of pounds of chemicals” then talk to the bureaucrats.
Or maybe wake up and read the BS. Define “chemicals”. Everything on Earth is made of chemicals.
I bet you’d sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide because trillions of pounds of it are flooding our waterways. And it’s used to produce evil manufactured stuff.
Not only is the leftist who started this thread attacking good Conservatives with potty mouth phrases, but he (presuming chessplayer is that) also used the phrase "greed rules". That's straight of the lexicon of the OWS loonies.
Define “chemicals”.
Define “define.”
IBTZ!
BTW, we already have soul crushing EPA regs up the ying yang. NJ river water should be sparkling clean yet we have this. Seems all your beloved big govt’ policies are letting you down.
And this is new?
BTW, we already have soul crushing EPA regs up the ying yang. NJ river water should be sparkling clean yet we have this.
Regs aren’t the problem. The problem is they aren’t enforced harshly enough. China has anti-pollution regs up the ying yang, but do they enforce them? NO! If the polluters in NJ were fined to the point where it actually hurt them in the wallet, perhaps they would stop. The honchos of these corporations can well afford to stop pollution and still live in the lap of luxury.
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