It’s Jim Inhofe’s job, as a member of Congress, to provide that funding, not just to throw his hands up in the air and declare that Americans are going to have to drink dirty water just because he can’t be bothered to allocate the proper funds.
Last year, the Department of the Interior published regulations to keep the carcinogenic and otherwise poisonous rubble created by mountaintop removal mining out of the streams that sustain wildlife and (if you want to be anthropocentric) feed into the drinking water supplies for millions of Americans. Last month, Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio introduced H.Amdt [...]
Given that the current leadership of Congress has pledged to cut government spending, why doesn’t it start with itself, and eliminate government subsidies for bottled water on Capitol Hill, when the building has perfectly good plumbing?
Mike Arcuri sounds like a PR hack working for a gas drilling company, promising protection while actually defending plans to go right ahead with the environmentally risky plans that were already in place. He won’t take a stand
I’m not about to say that Representative Devin Nunes is tripping over himself to cater to the demands of every industrial agribusiness in his district, but is content to let human beings die. That would be too extreme. It would be a bit more accurate, however, than the accusations Nunes has hurled at environmentalists.
Are we willing to watch the devastation of Pacific salmon runs, the disappearance of resident killer whale populations, and the general impoverishment of California’s riverine and marine ecosystems, just for the sake of inexpensive strawberries and salad greens in winter?
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