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EPA won’t face fines for polluting rivers with orange muck

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/11/epa-wont-face-fines-polluting-rivers-orange-muck/

Mr Bombastic

YOU should be fined for polluting the forum.

sum

Americans used to believe in free speech.

Mr Bombastic

Free speech. Yes. Spamming? No.

sum

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.

CounterRevolutionary

"'Sovereign immunity. The government doesn’t fine itself,' said Thomas L. Sansonetti, former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s division of environment and natural resources."

If there is any solace in this environmental catastrophe, Trump cut the EPA budged by 31% so as to fire the idiot bureaucrats running the show.

sum

Why obey the law if the government doesn't?

Bug58

Who would get the money if they did fine the tax payers??

sum

If people behaved like the government, you'd call the cops.

CounterRevolutionary

That's a tricky question. There are some Indian tribes irrigating their crops and feeding their sheep that pickled water that flows through their reservation downstream. It might cost the taxpayer mucho wampum, indeed, fines or no fines. The phony environmentalists like Ginny McCarthy, need to be hauled into court and personally challenged for their callus indifference. Trump should shut down the entire EPA or allocate its responsibilities to the States, not the federal government.

First on CNN: Navajo Nation sues EPA over toxic mine spill
Maeve Reston
By Maeve Reston; Video by Gabe Ramirez, CNN
Updated 10:46 AM ET, Wed August 17, 2016

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/navajo-lawsuit-epa-animas-river/

Farmington, New Mexico (CNN) — A year after 3 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for what it sees as negligence in cleaning up the disaster -- serving up a potent election-year issue for Republicans against one of their favorite targets.

The EPA has taken responsibility for the accidental release of toxic acid mine waste -- including lead and arsenic -- that turned the Animas River an unsightly shade of orange last August. But in the lawsuit filed Tuesday, the Navajo Nation alleges that the EPA has failed to properly remediate the disaster and compensate the thousands of farmers who rely on the San Juan River, which flows from the Animas through New Mexico and Utah, to irrigate their crops and sustain their cattle and sheep.

Touching the livelihood of voters in four western states -- Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah -- the spill could serve as a symbol of government incompetence for Republicans, who have long railed against what they view as the overreach and overregulation of the EPA, especially under President Barack Obama.

sum

Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.