Posted on 10/20/2017 10:32:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What do severe cuts to core environmental protections and New Jersey's middle class losing federal tax deductions for local property and state income taxes have in common?
What's the common thread between climate programs and Obamacare?
These key protections and programs are on the chopping block to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent of Americans if the Trump administration and their allies in Congress have their way.
Experts with scientific certainty say damage from regular flooding and extreme weather like Harvey, Irma, Irene and Maria will occur with increasing severity and frequency due to human-caused climate change.
It's clear that Trump does not grasp what a beneficial role EPA plays not only on the safety and livelihood of New Jersey residents but also in supporting good jobs.
Budgets are about choices but some choices are tougher and worse than others.
Tax cuts for the wealthiest at the expense of public health and safety for the rest of us is unconscionable. Yet that will happen unless there is a chorus of outrage from citizens.
Cutting EPA more to pay polluters because programs assisting with health insurance weren't weakened enough is an abomination.
Congressional leaders like New Jersey's Rodney Frelinghuysen need to remember that illness and premature death aren't just bad for us, they're bad for business. It's past time they mend their ways, they're the last chance for all of us.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
I stopped reading after that sentence. Classwarfarin is a drug that I cannot tolerate. Pringle the potato chip man should go to Venezuela if he wants to attack rich people (except for their leadership).
Federal regulations have little effect on the local water supply and sewage treatment here. They have always exceeded Federal standards and would do so with or without FedMob intrusion.
No, just sewage in my news if I am stupid enough to subscribe to this trashy leftist newspaper.
“I never knew the EPA was in charge of my local water supply and sewage treatment...”
I ran a small public water supply system, 300 connections, for 30 years. The epa was involved! Mandated daily testing and reporting.
Compromising with bad liberal policies is just like adding sewage to your drinking water.
If he's right, he can DSAD.
Our family is on a monthly delivery from Ozarka. I forgot to adjust our last couple of orders, so I'm really ready for the next disaster: 9-5 gal jugs stored away...lol.
Many East Coast cities (such as DC) have a common sewage/runoff system. DC regularly dumps raw sewage after very heavy rains because the treatment plant can’t handle the load and the overflow gets dumped.
Love those Chesapeake crabs and oysters! Yummmm!!!!!
The EPA’s level set in the 50’s (ish) was .05 parts of arsenic per million, had a built-in four-fold safety margin.
Clinton reduced this major and cost us millions.
Bush relaxed it and the left went nuts.
Bammy said his administration would “restore science to its rightful place”.
Bovine male excrement! He replaced Science with hysterical emotions.
Cryptosporidium is not killed by chlorine. And it spreads through contaminated water.
Not that cutting funding to the EPA will have any effect on Cryptosporidium. Infectious diseases are the CDC’s concern.
San Diego on the Jersey Shore?
To go with the sewage the media tries to feed us?
It seems we have sewage on the pages of the Star-Ledger.
The LMSM routinely puts sewage on the air.
I'll take my chances with the sewage, thank you. :)
The only sewage in New Jersey will be in the New Jersey Star ledger, your column.
Honest question: Is David Pringle old enough to have a driver's license?
The company delivering water to our city existed long (make that L-O-N-G) before the EPA was a horrible idea in the mind of any big government loon. Our water was drinkable all those years.
Then, the Flint Michigan water supply became, what, raw sewage after the full bloom of the EPA.
Sounds like the water supply of the United States will improve the day they shutter the EPA.
Trump is responsible for the bad water in Flint, too, I bet.
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