Yes - and I certainly support these laws in general - but we have to qualify that the period since has been accompanied by essential the shift of contaminating industries to the rest of the world. Our clean rivers and cont. mass consumption are, in part, possible bc we contaminated someone else.
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David Roberts
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
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