"It sets a floor for what the industry needs to do," said attorney Erik Schlenker-Goodrich of the Western Environmental Law Center. "The reality is we can do far better."
His belief that EPA regulations of mercury, air toxics and CO2 will cause businesses to stop spending money is exactly the opposite of what analysts say would happen.
In the midst of a packed schedule snapping at President Obama's heels, Republicans have found time to try and rip the heart out of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Kochs have directed many millions into a vast propaganda machine that's corrupting American politics in order to reward their pollution-based enterprise.
The real culprits are the industries that dump pollutants into our water, and the elected officials who are failing to fund our drinking and wastewater systems.
The culprit may be a pesticide that the EPA has allowed on the market despite the fact that the company which makes the pesticide has failed to prove it is safe.
