No need for EPA eyes on pollution, Scott Walker tells newspaper
Source: Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants to all but eliminate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and place each state in sole charge of controlling air and water pollution within its borders if he is elected president, he told a conservative newspaper.
"I'm all for a sustainable environment, but you have to balance it with a sustainable economy, and I think in our state we've shown you can do that hand-in-hand," Walker told the Washington Examiner in an article published Monday. "I think states can do it all across America much better than the federal government."
Reaction was swift from critics of Walker's environmental record who said without the EPA there would be a "race to the bottom" among politicians in states competing for business investment and no safeguards in one state against pollution flowing through the air or water to another state.
"You dont need a college degree to know that air and water pollution do not respect state boundaries," said Daniel J. Weiss, a League of Conservation Voters spokesman in Washington. "Wisconsin would be virtually helpless to protect its citizens from pollution from other states."
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Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Because smoke from coal-fired power plants will stay within the borders of the state generating the pollution.
valerief
(53,235 posts)deathrind
(1,786 posts)What were you thinking when you had the chance to toss this man out of office but instead re-elected him?
BadGimp
(4,024 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,603 posts)...to know that air and water pollution do not respect state boundaries."
Apparently you do need a college degree.
Sorry, Scotty, you should have stayed in school.
pansypoo53219
(21,010 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)if, he also were willing to pass a law stating that anyone who voted for him was not allowed to move out of the state they were living in when they voted for him. That way we could pretty much ensure that we wouldn't have to worry about the Tea Party for more that a couple of more years.
QED
(2,754 posts)it's gone now: the fossil fuel industry, a.k.a., the Kochs. But you knew that.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)from a dipshit governor that is decimating the quality of life in Wisconsin.
Look at Kansas, as Ex. A.
trusty elf
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riversedge
(70,464 posts)in WI and can do it across America. Walker has semi-priviatized our DNR and appointed a crony as Head who takes directions from Walker -Kock.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)riversedge
(70,464 posts)In solidarity
Javaman
(62,540 posts)moron.
Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)They tried this with shipping regulations on the Mississippi river. It was a mess.