Posted on 12/02/2016 5:40:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it plans to require mining companies to show they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution so taxpayers arent stuck footing the bill.
The proposal follows a 2016 agreement reached under court order for the government to enforce a long-ignored provision in the 1980 federal Superfund law.
The requirement would apply to hardrock mining, which includes mines for precious metals, copper, iron, lead and other ores. It would cover mines and processing facilities in 38 states, requiring their owners to set aside sufficient money to pay for future clean ups.
The EPA is considering similar requirements for chemical manufacturers, power generation companies and the petroleum refining and coal manufacturing industries.
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No cuts. Elimination of the department.
“in order to get or renew a permit, a bond has to be floated for the clean up”
Yes. On the local level it’s done all the time real estate developers. In order for the county to permit a subdivision the developer is required to acquire a bond sufficient to complete roads, sewers and other infrastructure in case the project goes belly up before completion.
It is a hard argument that EPA has shown a path to a more prosperous nation. So many stupid on-going new regulations, folks can't plan.
The intent of the EPA was to deindustrialize the U.S.
It is the whole Population Control, anti-Capitalist, agenda.
We can both feed the world and teach the world to feed itself, but these elites are RACISTS, who don’t want the third world competing for their own resources.
Their wealth, comfort, and control is tied to their ability to ensure against a third world population, growing and threatening that control.
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