Comments on: EPA Signs Rule to Cut Haze in Big Sky Country
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By JCW on 08-16-12 @ 7:03 pm
EPA Signs Rule to Cut Haze in Big Sky Country
Well…...I think “Big Sky Country” should “sign a rule” to eliminate the EPA from Big Sky Country.
They need to stay out of this state. We don’t need any NAZI organizations telling us how to live.
By montanaeasy56 on 08-17-12 @ 6:53 am
Yeah I agree…we need to make sure the citizens of Libby and Lincoln County continue to have to live in the contamination and death sentence left behind by WR Grace. That type of
community disregard nees to be prevalent all over the state without corporations having to
worry about some “nazi” agency forcing them to provide a safe and healthy work enviroment
and then when they don’t making the taxpayers pick of the tab for the cleanup…Yeah..lets go
America!!!
By JCW on 08-17-12 @ 6:59 am
The EPA had NOTHING to do with the “improvement” of ANY laws, regulations, or rules to thosesituations.
It was THE PEOPLE THAT DID THAT.
Not a single GOVERNMENT department has EVER made anything “better” for the people.
By Mark Phillips on 08-17-12 @ 9:48 pm
The slow cultural pressure of middle of road adults will win here. Market forces of cheap natural gas will aide in the effort to clean up the air. I think Montana had better sell coal cheap to the Chinese while we
can. Nazi’s and gov. howlers and rock creatures aside, we are slowly working our way back to a
cleaner, healthier state. The middle will win. It always has. Sorry Charlie.
By montanaeasy56 on 08-17-12 @ 9:48 pm
There are hundreds of people in Lincoln County who are very happy that the EPA is finally in their town cleaning up their houses, yards, gardens, etc. from the mess left by WR Grace.
Without the EPA, and, yes, tax dollars, WR Grace would have skated without any cleanup
when they filed bankruptcy…and taxpayers would still have to pick up the tab…
By thinker on 08-18-12 @ 6:17 am
If I recall the facts correctly, the Federal Government mandated the use of asbestos.And wasn’t it “The Government” that said there was no danger working in the smoke and debris
from the World Trade Center? What did that medical bill cost?
By montanaeasy56 on 08-18-12 @ 8:56 am
There is a big difference between the government agency of OSHA, which overseas workplace safety, and the EPA, which is usually in charge of cleanup after an area has been
contaminated. OSHA regulations ALLOW a certain amount of particulates, which they deem to
not be toxic. To come up with this criteria, they have to weigh and balnce the industries ability
to make money. In other words OSHA has to take into account the economic impacts on a
particular industry when developing their regulations. The EPA, on the other hand, does not.
So OSHA is forced by law to allow workers to systematically be contaminated over the course
of their work career and then at the end, in the case of WR Grace, the workers find themselves
very ill..but since it happened over 40 years it was fine and dandy.
By Fast on 08-18-12 @ 10:30 am
All I know is in my professional flying career (40 years) is that the air in north America is a lot hazier and in some locals tastes funny.
By hotfishmt on 08-19-12 @ 9:27 am
Smoke Haze: I wonder what the 2 large Sea Birds are still sitting at Glacier Airport, when they could be dropping water on the Fire near Elmo??? Are they here for looks or a photo op??? The
usage of the sitting planes is a shame…it could sure help get the fire under control.
Of other things….HAZE….the EPA cannot regulate China….as they are the biggest maker of world
wide haze…..or have you all forgotten the 2008 Olympics…..and the heavy fog/sleeze that hung
over the Olympics ??
We (the free world) are rushing to by cheap crap made in China, while enriching the Communist
party of China bank account which they turn around an use to buy up companies in the the “free
world”....while we cry in our beer & then complain…ITS SALTY.
The Chinese version of the EPA & OSHA….is shut up or disappear.
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