Regulation of industry good for our health

It's a good thing we have the Environmental Protection Agency (imperfect though it is) and laws like the Clean Water Act to protect our health from corner-cutting industries. In Mexico, their laws and enforcement are weaker, and people are dying as a result.

This sad film, Silent River, discusses diseases of residents near Rio Santiago, Guadalajara brought on by unregulated industrial pollution:

http://www.silentriverfilm.com/film.html

Thank goodness we created the EPA decades ago. Remember how Pittsburgh's rivers used to be dead like this?

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Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on October 30, 2015 at 9:16am

Wow regulate industry is a good thing???  Who da thunk it?

Maybe we should consider regulating nat gas 'cause we all know that there no regs at all......

Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on November 1, 2015 at 3:24am

The EPA has proposed to start requiring some gas & liquid hydrocarbon processing plants in southwestern Pennsylvania to report their toxic air pollution emissions. http://publicsource.org/from-the-source/epa-wants-large-natural-gas.... Including "Mark West-Liberty Midstream & Resources facilities in Washington and Butler counties, and the Mountain Gathering LLC facility in Butler County". "Those emissions, the EPA said, likely contain more than 25 different TRI-listed chemicals, including hydrogen sulfide, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene, which are known carcinogens."

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on November 1, 2015 at 4:45am

Yeah, and I can go to any paint store and buy pure benzene, toluene, and xylene.  And a lot more toxic stuff.  People are exposed to much more benzene, toluene, and xylene just in the home products they use.  Finger nail polish remover is almost pure xylene.

Permalink Reply by Barry D on November 1, 2015 at 6:35am

Jim,

You are making way to much sense.

Logic makes the the heads of the lefties explode.

I wondered what that noise was this morning.

Some antis must have read your post and I heard their heads explode.

Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on November 2, 2015 at 2:32am

Do you release huge quantities of these pollutants daily, as these gas & liquid hydrocarbon processing plants apparently do?

You didn't cite a source regarding your "Finger nail polish remover is almost pure xylene" claim. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_polish#Nail_polish_remover and http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/cutex-nail-polish-remover-non-acet... your claim is incorrect.

Are you personally causing huge emissions of xylene every day? If so, why?

Permalink Reply by MJ on November 2, 2015 at 2:43am

Everone that smoke cigarettes does!

Permalink Reply by Barry D on November 1, 2015 at 6:32am

Paul,

The state of PA is way ahead of the EPA in monitoring these emissions. We don't need the nimrods from DC sticking their noses into the business of the people of PA, or any other state.

Permalink Reply by craig on November 1, 2015 at 4:32am

I'm older than you are and never ever saw our rivers dead like that.

I do remember water skiing many times on the Beaver and Ohio rivers in the 60's and 70's though...hard to believe I'm still alive isn't it?

Permalink Reply by Barry D on November 1, 2015 at 6:31am

craig,

I too have skied the Ohio, back in the day, and lived to tell the tale.

However, with due respect, I am old enough to remember the Cuyahoga River catching fire due to pollution, the Love Canal in NY, the chemical dump in Deerfield OH etc.

There is no doubt that in the past some bad players took advantage of lax and loose environmental laws.

We need environmental regulation, but at the state and local levels, not from DC and the inside the Beltway crowd.

Permalink Reply by craig on November 1, 2015 at 9:05am

I was talking about the Pittsburg rivers that Paul mentioned...."Remember how Pittsburgh's rivers used to be dead like this?"

Oh, I know there were bad things happening back then as well.

Sensationalism such as all of Paul's posts has no place on such an important topic such as this though.

Permalink Reply by Barry D on November 1, 2015 at 11:55am

craig,

You and I are in agreement, Paul's posts are long on sensationalism and short on substance.

That's why I rebut his posts each time he posts his sensationlistic nonsense. People need to see that he and others of his ilk are no more than fear mongers.

I agree with you and I am all for serious discussion of such serious topics. His posts have no place in that discussion.

All the best.

Permalink Reply by Barry D on November 1, 2015 at 6:26am

Paul,

So what? They have dirty rivers in Mexico, is that caused by oil and gas development in PA, OH, WV etc.?

The point you miss is that many of us are against over regulation and unnecessary regulation.

We also believe that environmental regulation is best dealt with at the state and local level.

Environmental regulations out of DC and the EPA are meant to promote political agendas, not protect the environment and We The People.

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