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EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« on: June 30, 2016, 01:25:02 pm »
EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
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Michael Bastasch
5:32 PM 06/29/2016
 

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement arm told lawmakers no one at the agency would be punished for spilling 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste in Colorado.

Why? Because EPA only released pollution from Gold King Mine into the Animas River, they didn’t create the mine waste.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/29/epas-top-enforcer-gives-shocking-answer-on-why-agency-not-punished-for-gold-king-mine-blowout/#ixzz4D4KSmlkO

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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2016, 01:29:01 pm »
So, if I buy a toxic waste dump and clean it up by releasing the waste into a local waterway, the EPA won't prosecute me?


Good to know.
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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2016, 01:45:14 pm »
Quote from: Just_Victor on June 30, 2016, 01:29:01 pm
So, if I buy a toxic waste dump and clean it up by releasing the waste into a local waterway, the EPA won't prosecute me?


Good to know.

It pays to be both the polluter and the enforcer, doesn't it?
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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2016, 01:56:15 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on June 30, 2016, 01:45:14 pm
It pays to be both the polluter and the enforcer, doesn't it?

I would love to see some case history about EPA prosecutions of individuals held liable for pollution they didn't create.  I can just about guarantee the EPA's above statement is a demonstrable lie.

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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2016, 02:07:00 pm »
Some pigs are more equal than others.
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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2016, 02:24:33 pm »
I can't create lead or mercury or freon or PCBs but I can spread them around legally now.
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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2016, 04:56:34 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on June 30, 2016, 01:45:14 pm
It pays to be both the polluter and the enforcer, doesn't it?

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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2016, 05:06:09 pm »
The Colonists went to war against their own government for much less than this.

We are already subjugated, and are comfortable with it.
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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2016, 05:11:54 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on June 30, 2016, 05:06:09 pm
The Colonists went to war against their own government for much less than this.

We are already subjugated, and are comfortable with it.

Some are content to remain on the National Plantation. I am not.
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Re: EPA’s Top Enforcer Gives SHOCKING Answer On Why Agency Not Punished For Gold King Mine Blowout
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2016, 05:12:40 pm »
I have a home on the NJ side of the Hudson River.   The towns are NOT allowed to dump plowed snow into the Hudson.
It isn't pure enough, so says the EPA.
There the snow mountains sit, blocking streets, clogging shopping centers, and causing all kinds of misery for those driving in the area.
This is freshly fallen snow.  There is no logic at all to the directive but there it is.

Evidently releasing tons of poisonous waste into a river that is sued for recreation, feeding crops, and thereby  poisoning drinking water is just fine with the EPA.
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