http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sherwood-boehlert/hr-2018-clean-water-act_b_897272.html
The measure the House is considering this week (H.R. 2018 ) is narrower than the more comprehensive rewrite of the Clean Water Act that House Republicans failed to get enacted in 1995, but it's just as destructive. The bill targets the very heart of the Clean Water Act: the notion that a federal backstop is needed to ensure that states don't give a pass to polluters.
I don't get it, I really don't. I mean, I know Republicans play pocket pool with industry on a continual basis, but doesn't ensuring the nation's water quality go right to the heart of what it means to be a civilized nation? Like air, water knows few boundaries:
It's not hard to understand why leaving clean water policy entirely to the states doesn't work. First, waters don't follow state boundaries. Pollutants that are put in the waters of one state don't stay in that state, and indeed may do more damage downstream as pollutants accumulate.
Why do the Republicans have to be on the wrong side of every issue. Can't they get something right? What the heck is wrong with these people?!
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