Why Today’s Booming Export Industries, Agriculture & Mining, Easily Dodge EPA Regulations
Non-point source pollution symbolized. Image credit: State of Massachusetts. Until now, US environmental regulation, as with financial sector regulation, had been ‘back-tracking’ steadily for decades, a trend often justified with the fantasy that producers would on their own a.) voluntarily invest in system-wide efficiency improvements; and b.) stop outsourcing if only they could had the freedom to operate without enforced pollution control standards. * There are parallel fantasies for agriculture, as discussed below. Exports rule.
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Why Today’s Booming Export Industries, Agriculture & Mining, Easily Dodge EPA Regulations
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